So for now, I am off the freelance thing, as I am now a real employee again. If anyone wants to see some of the sites I work on, we have a client list on the Websolutions site. I obviously didn’t do them all, but I’ve worked on some of them. If your looking for a great Ektron Partner, I obviously would say they’re the ones now, but even before I worked with them, I would have said the same thing. 

I’m off to go read yet another book, this week it’s a collection of stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft called “The Taint and other Novellas”. I highly recommend anything by Brian Lumley, who wrote these stories, and of course anything else from Lovecraft himself, along with the the other notable authors he inspired.

So this is the story so far. I have tried Goldberg, Mephisto, and made an attempt at Typo ( the blog not Typo3). They all failed for their own reasons. Goldberg was too bloated and all in the end not easy to manipulate. Mephisto was awesome, it’s like Wordpress on Rails. In the end I failed to freeze the Mephisto app, and Rail 2.0 came out. Those two factors plus my shared hosting resulted in, you guess it, broken app. Lastly that brings us to Typo, wonderful Typo. That attempt failed at the start. Typo, I had high hopes for you, after all I am a fan of Rails, but alas, you failed at the most basic task…installation. Typo has almost no documentation, fail. The documentation I can find make no sense, fail. The project itself does not even have a real website, fail.

The lessons learned from these wonderful, packages were,  if you want something done right, do it yourself. That brings us to the current situation. I needed the site usable, and updateable. But I am still playing catchup with Rails 2.0, now 2.1. So as I refresh and relearn, I decided to toss up every bloggers friend, Wordpress. Now I just gotta settle on the theme. Feedback is welcome as always, updates are coming I promise. For real this time ;)