New Beginning
This is a totally new website. I have unfortunately just thrown the old one away, pictures and all. I needed a new start and that seemed like the way to do it. The old website had also been abandoned for some time, I think the last time I updated it was about a year ago. It was based on Textpattern, probably the best PHP system I have ever used. But it is PHP, and I hate that stuff. I don’t get and I can’t bend it to my whim.
Enter Ruby. And Radiant. Radiant bends easily and willingly. It is fun. After a day and night hacking away, I still have a smile on my face. And for a personal site, this is important.
I have been hacking away at this for many months. Actually, I think the first few redesigns were over a year ago. I built at least four designs and even my own CMS, before I realized what a folly that was. My break came with the release of Radiant 0.6rc2, a.k.a. “Mental”. The Mental Branch brought with it Extensions, essentially mini Rails applications with the lovely interface of Radiant. Anything you might need it easily added as a new tab and small framework with the Radiant application.
And that brings me to the next new thing, this site would be nothing (literally) without the photos. The are kindly provided by new Radiant extension. Which I, um wrote. I spent more time than I care to think of on it, but it has been lots of fun. Should you be interested in assets management and tagging, I will soon offer a zip including everything you need to get it up and running. If you are adventurous, check out the latest version at http://svn.bitchkitty.com/projects/extensions/assets for the assets and http://svn.bitchkitty.com/projects/extensions/metatags for tagging. You will need both.
And while you are at it, check out my other project, Bitch Kitty Racing. Don’t blame me for anything you find over there, I just keep it running.
If you have any questions, comments or want to help with the Assets extension, please feel free to email me.