thehowe_v7.1

The end of the semester is keeping me quite busy, but I wanted to post a quick update now that I've got the new website up. Hey, new website! Yes, indeed, after 6 months of off-and-on work (mostly off), I've finally managed to get the new website to a state where it can be live on the wild wild internet.

There are a number of changes in the new site, most of which you don't care about: I've re-implemented the backend in Ruby on Rails, I've revamped the blogging engine, I've redesigned the code to make it easier to add new features, blah, blah, blah.

Changes you should care about:

• Added tags to the blog posts.
• Improved commenting feature
• Added rudimentary search to the site
• Easier to change code = more improvements, more often
• RSS feed for the blog posts
• Improved hiding of "angsty" posts and other content not appropriate for public consumption (using the new VIP system)

Anyways, I'm relatively excited about this. Which I guess says something about me. Enjoy!