So, it's been a while since my last post. Quite a bit has happened in that time, most of which I will cover in later posts. The main reason for the lack of posting in the past month has to do with my hosting account at Godaddy.com expiring. Instead of renewing my basic Windows account, I opted to move to a VPS with Slicehost. Timing was a big problem, I had a few weeks to move my entire site to a new provider. This, in itself, is no big deal; copy... paste... done. Well, I also wanted to move away from having just a flat static site. With each thought, I had to create a new post, update the home page, add the post to the archive listing, and update the RSS feed. With a dynamic site, all of this can be done in one step: add the post to the database. The home page, archive list, and RSS feed should all be able to update themselves.
The move away from Godaddy also allowed me to do some site cleaning. If you frequented the site in the past, you will have noticed a few navigation items missing: Code Monkey, Customization, Healthy Food, Travel, and Wedding are all gone! This is not to say that none of that information will make it back to my site, it will just appear through the blog posts I make. Cleaning the site helps me focus, remove the clutter and concentrate on only a few tasks. One goal I have been wanting to accomplish with this site is to add tag support to my posts to make them easier to find and group together, thus allowing me to eliminate some of those navigational items. And in the week since I migrated my site, I have added tag support! Code Monkey topics should now appear grouped together with the tag coding, Healthy Food with the tag food, with Travel and Wedding following similar patterns.
That's all I got for now. Topics for upcoming posts include: my new Guitar, books I've been reading, and more on Ruby and Rails programming.
