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Buddhamagnet moves on
The time has come to blow up my site again. I used Drupal for a bit but although it’s a powerful platform and can give you a fully-featured community engine out of the box, that’s not what I need right now. I need speed and the kind of input experience that feels right for a social developer and word engineer.
That experience is provided by two simple and elegant content creation tools, Tumblr and Posterous. And as a developer, I have decided to rebuild my web presence using a Ruby framework (will be either Ramaze or Rails), pulling in my main feeds (textual from Tumblr and Posterous, sonic from Audioboo, photographic from Flickr and video from Vimeo and Youtube) and aggregating them in a simple direct interface.
That way I have control and room to experiment and I can fire up the Tumblr app on my iPhone or dive in via the web interface without worrying about the arcane Drupal interface and having my headspace muddied by its looming presence.
So - preamble over. Ambling to commence in 3…2…1…