Portfolio Site Relaunch for 2011

Posted over 1 year ago on December 24, 2010

Apparently I'm addicted to reworking my site, as this is my third porfolio site in three years. My first take on it was a static site, which seems so quaint by comparison. And, it was painfully ugly.

After that I moved to Django, which was great for managing content but I found it difficult to iterate and improve on it after launch. Plus, deployments were fairly painful and I had to maintain a VPS at Slicehost just for it.

Now after spending the last three months really focusing on learning Ruby and Rails, I've got another relaunch. This site is (at the time of posting) built on Ruby 1.92 and Rails 3.03, and deployed to Heroku. I'm really enjoying Rails, especially the conveniences on the front-end. The helper methods that come out of the box with Rails alone really blow my mind. And with a battery of unit tests behind me and the easy branching/merging of Git, I feel really comfortable trying out new features and look forward to continuing to push this site forward after launch.

Read more about my experience building the site.

Check out the code at Github