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CBN (this website)

April 2010 - present (active)

The code behind this website, for those who are interested, is a Rails app of my own invention, written because I wanted the blog to be on my server, the login and comments features to be just so, my web development experience to be a bit more recent, and PHP to not even be installed. I made a previous attempt in Python (CherryPy, SQLAlchemy, Genshi) but while I like the language, I found Rails and its plugins to be a much more complete and well-integrated toolkit that made the whole development process easier and quicker.

Features include OpenID/Facebook/Twitter login, a blog, comments (with threading and moderation), a project list, static pages and some microformat support.

The name just stands for chris.boyle.name, the site for which it was written.

It has no formal releases yet; see github for code/issues.

Icons (except for other sites' favicons) are from the famfamfam "Silk" set.