After working on my weblog “blog” for some time, it is now officially live! It has been a great adventure, learning new technologies, and different methodologies. I created this blog with technologies that interest me, usually the easier it is to develop with the more I’ll like it, and end up incorporating it into my work.

In February I left my position as a ColdFusion developer to pursue a career as a Ruby on Rails developer. I learned a lot about behaviour driven development, and some of the features of Ruby. Ruby is such a treat to work with, when written correctly it just flows like poetry.

There are other content management systems out there but they just weren’t right for me. I wanted to use my own stack of tech, mixing and matching to make development easier.

This weblog uses MongoDB to store data, the app is itself uses Sinatra, the language is Ruby. Comments are powered by Disqus. Validation is done by ActiveModel.

It all works together using each technology’s strengths. The url at the top includes the date, if you wanted all the articles by month just do /weblog/2011/04, or if you want all the articles this year, /weblog/2011 Each article can have tags, or topics as I like to call them, I’m not a fan of tag clouds, who really uses them? I like the idea that that an article can fall under several topics, so you can then group those articles together.