Finally back online!!

It's been some time since my previous blog was online. We've had an attack on our server and needed to restore a previous version of the OS. I wasn't in the mood that time to reconfigure that site and so I let it be for the time being. I've been working on several projects of mine ever since, but none of them really got finished. I guess it's just my broad range of interests starting new things and not finishing the current one once I read about something new. About a month ago I decided it was time for me to get back online...

A new start

Ofcourse I could take my old code (I have never taken a backup of the database on the server, so the content was lost anyway) and start entering new content. But I've learned a lot since then and it was obvious that the old system I had completely written myself wasn't good enough. Because I'm working on a CMS myself that is far from completed (no I'm not going into details on it, yet), I decided to use PHP and a framework to make a temporary blog. Out of the many frameworks available, I chose CodeIgniter, because it is the base for ExpressionEngine, a blogging system I've been taken with for quite some time now. (Although I've never actually used it.)

Future

Well, you're looking at the result of a month's hard work. (Not full days work, don't worry.) I mentioned I'm building my own CMS system some paragraphs up. Actually when I've implemented it, using it for my blog actually won't break my current site. The advantage of using a site like I've made mine, is that I'll just have to update the URLs of where the content (blogs, comments, etc...) is located. I am going to be using a Virtual File System with that CMS instead of the View/Controller based approach I'm using now.

Compatibility

I know it is a much discussed subject, but since Microsoft is busy getting people to use IE8 or at least 7, I've decided to not making this site compatible with IE6 and lower. (Open it in IE6 and you see what I mean.) At the moment, IE7 users may be seeing some displacement of certain items, but I'll solve it asap. For the other browsers, I've detected no problems. If you do happen to see one, please let me know at bugs at sachav dot be.