At long (way too long) last, I’ve gone back to OCaml and completed enough of the re-re-re-re-rewrite that we can blog again. Comments now work too :).
If you want the gritty details, check out the colophon.
The battle against spam is a never-ending arms race, and in the last week or two the spammers overcame my defenses. Thus, I have had to disable comments for the time being while I debug the current defense systems and potentially implement new ones.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but I really don’t want our comments filled with nasty links, and we currently don’t have a moderation system (it’s on the todo list, honest!).
After much time (too much, really), we have now deployed the new elehack.net. It now sports a spiffy Common Lisp application server powered by Hunchentoot and Steel Bank Comon Lisp, a Postgres database, and other yummy web goodness. Oh, and a new look too.
Enjoy :).
I guess that this is a real blog now — I’ve implemented a commenting system. So now the world can tell me they love me. Or hate my guts. Or something like that.
RSS feeds are also enabled. LINK REL tags have been put in place, so Firefox picks up that there’s an associated RSS feed where appropriate. I still need to add manual RSS feed links on the right, but that’s a task for another day.
Some of you will be pleased to know that I actually have a blog again now. And this time it should stay up for a while.
I don’t have a commenting engine yet, but that is forthcoming. One thing at a time. RSS and summary links also have yet to be added.