Greg Aker

New Blob

So I have a new blob blog. I never really got into blogging before, so time will tell if I actually keep up on this. I had some comments in moderation, but since I wasn't sure what I wanted to be doing, I never logged in to approve/reject. So, this is me attempting to turn over a new leaf. We'll see how it goes.

I've been spending my free time learning Python over the past several months, and boy is it a fun language. It helps that friends like Seth and Kenny are always there to lend a hand. Plus, I'm sending people's children through college over at O'Reilly. :)

Tornado is a ball to program in. I am no sure if I'm doing things totally right, but I suppose time will tell. I like the bare-bones, keep it fast as hell approach. Kind of reminds me of a PHP framework I use. :) As far as choosing mongoDB, there is really no reason. I've read about these databases, but have had no need to use them. This site is just an excuse to have fun with new toys.

Dave Gnojek and I started talking about the monster theme months ago. The original, and awesome idea was to do some sort of different monster theme depending on the season. I just don't care to write that often, and was a bit too busy working on the ExpressionEngine 2 beta to focus on my site. So I decided a couple of weeks ago to start on this again. I decided to simplify some things from the original design David gave me, and, I'm still getting some notes from him on things. So if there are things you hate about typography, spacing, navigation, etc, it's my fault, not his. If you don't like the awesome monsters, um...sorry, I don't care, because I think they rule.

All in, excluding the view files and stylesheet this website is less than 500 lines of code. It's running Nginx on the front end, which is directing traffic to Python scripts running as a daemon via Supervisor on ports 8000/8001. We'll see how it holds up! :)