| Welcome to Rants and Ruminations, an irregularly appearing column by Willem van den Ende
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10 Jan 05 |
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(updated January 6 2005).
Here you can find my ruminations on (agile) software development practice,
systems thinking, as well as rants against ‘the hype du jour’
and sometimes system administration tips. I call it a ‘column’
as that is what this form has been called by (dutch) newspapers for a long
time. On the web, it is hyped as ‘new’ and is often called a
blog.
You can find contact details and more information on my professional
activities at www.willemvandenende.com .
About the software serving this column
This site is running on a combination of Apache and RubLog, a piece of software created
by Dave Thomas. If you want to use this software, you can download the
source code and installation instructions from rubyforge RubLog is a
simple file-based web log/wiki. It has a few distinguishing features:
- It accepts input in a variety of markup formats. HTML, plain text, and RDoc
formats are supplied by default, along with a handler for Usemod wikis.
More can be added without much effort (this file is in RDoc format)
- It works from conventional files and from CVS/RCS repositories. This is
useful is multiple people are using the same blog: have them check stuff
into CVS, and point the blog software at the repository.
- It supports category-based and time-based access (and combinations of the
two).
- Output styles are pluggable: a standard example and a style to support
printable documents are provided.
- It supports WikiWord-style links between articles (in RDoc mode).
RDoc License
RDoc is Copyright © 2003 Dave Thomas. It is released under the same
terms as Ruby.
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