opensource

Since I started to first set my foot on the Internet in 1998, I had many websites. I started with GeoCities, created several cheesy fan sites, ran something resembling what would later be called a blog (still written in static HTML), then a real blog, started several forums and other sites and eventually came back to blogging. But some time after I started the Linux Outlaws podcast with Dan I discovered that I couldn’t cope with regular blogging anymore. I just don’t have the time these days. I still like writing, but regular long-format posts are out of the question. That’s where micro blogging, or “micro messaging” as it has also been called lately, came to my rescue. I have been in love with it ever since I first heard about Jaiku on This Week in Tech and I’ve been madly micro messaging ever since. I later moved on to identi.ca where you can find me as @fabsh — so that is where my status updates reside these days, but while micro blogging is a great tool, sometimes you need slightly more space than 140 characters can provide to explain things. That is why I have decided to resurrect my personal page, not as a blog, but as somewhat of a cross between a blog and a static page. You are looking at the result right now.

I have decided to go with Drupal because of its exceptional stability and the fact that it provides the most flexible and powerful content management framework for creating a multi-purpose site1. Drupal can provide the backbone to anything, from a static website, to a blog to things like inventory-tracking applications. It might not be the best single-purpose blogging software out there (in my eyes, that’s WordPress) but it is the most flexible thing short of coding it all yourself and that’s exactly what I need for this site rather than just a blogging tool or a wiki (which I have also used for this site in the past). I hope you will join me in this new chapter of my journey on the web in 2010. I am planning to have reviews, articles, opinion pieces and all kinds of other stuff for you, some of it obviously to do with Linux and F/OSS2, some of it a bit further out there…