Ionic.de

After a more or less long time with no updates, last weekend I managed to give a use to the "homestuff" menu. As you may or may not have noticed that you were redirected to a less meaningful website, I manged to finish the mod_ruby installation and mirrored this site temporarly on my router.

You can find more information about this at http://openedwrt.root24.eu.

Greetings.

As of today the news script is quite ready.

Until this moment I simply just read the first (and only) entry out of a MySQL database/table, but I switched to using a loop. The first ten entries are read and, if available, also printed on the site.
Of course, I sort by the ID in descending order, to ensure that the first entry is printed on the top of the page.

Do you want to have it otherwise? Simply drop me a mail!

Additionally, I have planned following: if there are more then ten entries in the table, the entries should be printed normal on the page, but also a "site selection" ought to appear, which can be used for surfing through all the entries ...

In other words: you can look forward to some major changes in the next few days, something WILL happen ... even if this "something" will just be some neat server errors. ;)

Before I forget ... as you may or may not have noticed, I still have that dummy text on all the other pages. Well, you can look forward to some content even there soon.

Have a nice day.

Now that is, what you have been waiting for real long.
After I took over this domain, it has been clear that I would need a real website.
But: which language ought I use to write a dynamic site like the one you are reading now? I am familiar with PHP, did a good job with this language until now, but I wanted to try something new.
Let me say, four or five month ago I spoke with someone who used Ruby, or to be more precise Ruby On Rails for coding his website. I thought the idea would be pretty nice - learning a new programming language from scratch and doing nice things with it ... en plus it seems like it is much more performant than PHP.

So this is the deal now. This page is written with Ruby. No, I do not like Rails. It takes away freedom I want to have, i.e. I want still use Apache (though this fact alone would still be realizable), but I also want to use ~/public_html as my default DocRoot dir without any limitations, for example in file downloading and so on. This freedom is not given with Rails.

So now I am making my life hell using mod_ruby. Though, it works pretty well, I would not have expected this. I am really impressed.


Now, something about the layout. As you can see, the layout is a free layout taken from a big website offering a lot of those. Initially, this layout has also been used by Konstantin S. and to be honest, it did appeal to me, although it was held in green shades.
Thus I took that layout and modified it ... the result is this site now. Most work I did was adding the language selection (and man, it was kind of a difficult job, CSS can be very complicated and strange sometimes.)

I hope you like this site and I can welcome you as a regular visitor. :)

Good bye.