Everything In Particular

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about my “ideal” blog package and planning to implement it in Rails. But it’s been pretty far down on my priority list, so it just hasn’t gotten done. That said, WordPress comes pretty darn close to my ideal.

So, this blog is now my personal web home. The thing that finally pushed me over the edge is WordPress’s new domain mapping feature. I’ve mapped tjstankus.com to this blog and set the old blog URL to redirect. I’ve also setup redirects for stank.us so that I can keep using http://tj.stank.us/ as my home page URL.

One of the nifty features of WordPress is tag-based feeds. I like that I can provide http://tjstankus.com/tag/rails/feed to an aggregator or feed reader to get just my Rails-related posts. It’s always a bit of a conundrum for new bloggers as to whether one should create a blog focused exclusively on one subject, or just blog about anything they feel like. Tag-based feeds give you a workaround to do both.

Lastly, since WordPress is actually hosting this content, I don’t have to worry about handling a potential traffic spike that might occur if I were to say, blog about Britney Spears or something.

I’ve got no excuse not to blog now. :)

Welcome to my new-ish blog. I’ve tried my hand at blogging a couple times, with varying levels of success. Or, should I say, varying levels of failure.

My grand plan is to write a blogging app, from scratch, using Ruby on Rails. While this would be a fun and useful exercise, it just hasn’t happened yet. And I don’t think I should *not* have a blog, so here I am. And don’t tell me you write a Rails-based blog in fifteen minutes just because DHH did it in a screencast. I’m talking about a real blogging app. I’m as big a Rails enthusiast as anyone, but there’s a big diff between a real blog and what you can do in fifteen minutes.

So, here goes. Hopefully someone will read this thing. But, if not, just writing it is good enough.