lun apr 19 23:58:56 CEST 2010
New dress, new style, new everything
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So you don't see me around so much lately...well, everything is
going fine here, working a lot even if you can't see me so much,
mostly on university AI-related stuff. These crazy danish people
require you a lot of time for working on projects.
Well, you may have noticed how the website has changed, coming to
your favourite home page this morning. It's because now that I'm
in another country, far away from my beloved home network with my
server, I can really understand the reason why some of you com-
plained about the long time my website requires to load. It was
mainly due to the huge amount of PHP dynamic stuff, tons of AJAX
requests continuously managed, all stuff that is not good for a
poor Pentium 3 saved from the tip and hired as server behind a
home ADSL line. So I decided to make the change. Swap back to the
dear old comfortable times of web 1.0 and previous, when a brows-
er capable of JavaScript features was something extremely experi-
mental, and PHP itself was not so common. The times where CGI
were everything on server side. Yes, CGI. I completely re-wrote,
for my own choice, all the website using CGIs, enterely developed
in Bash (I have not even invoked Perl so far). It's always nice
to discover again the potentiality of shell scripting, surpris-
ingly discovering how easily you can manage databases, regex,
HTTP requests and more from your beloved command-line language,
and nothing more.
And yes, the other big news is Vee. Why haven't I discovered it
before? A damn cool command-line CMS that actually manages my
home page and the guestbook, allowing you to post new articles or
comments just writing those contents in your favourite terminal
editor, or automatically posting them in batch mode with a single
command. It's something so cool *HAD* to bring to my website.
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