Recently I’ve been playing with using Goldberg for Continuous Integration. CI is great, and what is also great is having a setup to auto-deploy to our Engine Yard staging server when all our tests pass. This isn’t fully implemented yet, but I do have the deploy to EY working. I had to reverse-engineer the command-line script a bit to get this working. Here is how it’s done for posterity:

A couple of weeks ago, I randomly noticed that I bought my first personal domain name – jerkvision.com – 12 years ago on March 27, 2000. That domain isn’t really live anymore – it redirects to muffinlabs.com, but once upon a time it was my personal website, and it looked a bit like this

(I heart the Wayback Machine)

At that point, it was just static HTML, nothing special. I was actually a little surprised to realize that I hadn’t had my own personal domain earlier than this. I guess that before that, I stuck to my old RPI website, and maybe one or two random places where I might have had a website.

Anyway, this was right around the time that ‘web blogs’ and blog engines were gaining popularity, and over the years I’ve tried a bunch, including:

• Movable Type
• Wordpress
• Drupal 4, 5, 6, and 7

And a couple more I can’t even remember.

And now I’m switched to Jekyll, a slightly different system which generates a static site from a collection of files that you maintain by hand. It’s a little hackish, but it’s definitely coder-friendly, and it gives me a few things I was looking for – mostly decent comment management via Disqus, a speedier website, and the ability to make random pages without too much effort.

Also, although I like Drupal enough, I also like trying new stuff, so here goes.

Happy Friday

I had been thinking about Total Recall the other day (loved this movie as a kid), and I came across this:

The people who made this have a crazy list of musicals and other cool stuff on their site.

If you enjoy thorough book reviews of books not actually worth reviewing, then I highly recommend B to the F, a blog which is reviewing the novelization of Back to the Future in exhaustive detail. It’s great!