The Site

This site is driven by a handmade backend built on everyone’s favorite framework, Ruby on Rails and is happily hosted by Slicehost. If you have the font Calibri, you’re seeing the site in all its glory, otherwise it’s set in Helvetica or Arial, depending on availability. If you’d like to get Calibri (which I highly recommend), you either need to get the newest version of Microsoft Office, Vista, or you can download the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (Windows only). There’s no free way to get the font if you’re on a Mac, unfortunately.

In developing the site, I ended up using quite a few Rails plugins and Ruby gems to make things easier:

• RDiscount
• Hpricot
• MiniMagick
• WillPaginate
• ActiveRecord::Base Without Table
• attachment_fu
• RSpec
• Acts As Taggable on Steroids
• jRails
• Akismetor
• Flickraw