My attempts to replace the software that runs this site are moving forward. In fact, as of today, I can generate a home page just like the one you are currently looking at. Woo hoo!

But I am still a few weeks away from swapping it out. I still need to generate the atom and RSS2 feeds. I have the atom stuff working, but not properly tested. Haven't started on the rss2 stuff yet.

The application is a combination of scripting software and XSLT. Right now I'm using mainly Perl to create the XML indexes necessary to generate the main page and feeds. I started out using Ruby, but switched back to Perl as I have found learning Ruby to be a little slower going than I planned originally. So I'm going to create everything in Perl first. Then go back and create a Ruby version. Ruby is cool, but I know Perl much better and I want to get this done sooner rather than later.