10 Jan 2007 07:45 am
About
What is IceSamurai.net? Well, back in college, I decided to buy a domain name, so I had to think of a name. Being involved in the sport of Kendo (Japanese fencing) I wanted to capture that element of my life. So why Ice… the ice comes from the fact that I was going to college that was located about 20 minutes from the Canadian border …or that I also played hockey.
The early days of this website were being hosted on my Linux pc at home. Originally, the site utilized home-grown Perl and text files (with some MySQL database). Then I migrated it to PHP v4… I then utilized XML files, XSL stylesheets and an Ant (I’ll post the customization for it later) build script to maintain the site. Then my computer died…
Short on cash, it took a while (2 years) before I bought new PC and got it up and running with Linux. Then I was lazy and didn’t feel like doing much with the old website. Took me close to a year, but then I finally came back to it, and reimplimented the website using Java JSP, Struts and Tiles. Just way too much of a pain in the ass to maintain.
Finally, I buckled down and leased some hosting services for about the next 2 years. (If you’re used to old unix utilities, or you are l33t with your mommy’s ‘puter, you can figure out which one.)
The hosting service provides the website with many nice features which I am entirely too lazy to set up on my own, e.g. PHP, [Ruby-on-]Rails, MySQL, email, CVS/SVN and secure shell. All the things I need.
I fired up a configuration of WordPress and here it is, my blog. Now I have a nice place to rant and rave about whatever it is I feel like, or whatever happens to be pissing me off.
-Jacob
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