In my previous post I indicated that I am using Ruby on Rails and JRuby for my new blogging tool. As underlying database I have decided to go with the Rails default: SQLite. SQLite has the advantage that it is an embeddable database, so you don’t need a separate database server to use it (which is very convenient when developing software). Note that when you are using JRuby you can also use Apache Derby (which is an embeddable database written in Java) instead of SQLite if you want to. Read the rest of this entry »
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Today at work I spoke with one of my colleagues about my desire to develop something to run this weblog on myself, and the reasons that were stopping me from doing it (originally written in this post). His response was incredibly clever: “Why don’t you develop your own blogging tool at your own pace, while blogging about it on something existing now?”. It’s good advice that I have decided to take! Read the rest of this entry »
After a long time without-brains.net has a website up and running again!
For some time I had thought of developing something myself, but I didn’t get around to it because I had so many other things that I wanted to do (and still want to do) with my time. Besides that there are loads of decent content management systems and frameworks out there, so rolling my own would really just be reinventing the wheel (which is not very motivating). It’s still a hobby project that I might want to pursue some time in the future, but for now I’ve parked that idea 
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