The Viamentis Blog

We all love Paul Graham. Well, at least I do. Here’s some advice he gives on doing the work that you love. Amazing. I felt as if I’m reading about myself in many places. That made me realize – parents are the same everywhere – trying to get kids into careers what they think are prestigious. And what a mistake it can be to follow that advice.

Reminds me of the days when my Dad used to encourage me to become a bank officer because it’s his idea of a stable career. I used to think “is that all he wants me to be?”. Shudder.

Ah finally. Viamentis Technologies’ site and blog fully moved to Rails, running on Lighttpd. Good bye Drupal, enter Typo for blogging. No more php holes. All of you, please update your feeds! Sorry for the trouble, I won’t change my blog address for a long time to come!

I still plan to run Apache2, albeit on a high-port, mostly to run trac and subversion. The day Lighttpd plays well with Trac and svn, goodbye Apache2!

Hi all, depending on how loaded with work I am in the coming days, I will move the site to Rails completely. And, as you might have expected, that means the blog will become http://blog.viamentis.com running on Typo and the site will stay http://www.viamentis.com. I am moving everything to a very simple design tempate with lots of whitespace. Though it won’t win any design awards, it’s as simple as I like it to be.

So, if your reader suddenly has hiccups reading the feeds from this site, it means the blog has moved. Please come back and update your feeds. I haven’t yet decided what to do with the old postings – though I would love to retain the comments, dates etc in typo too, I haven’t yet figured out a way to port the blog data from drupal to typo. Let me see what I can do. Or else, I will just post all the important posts in a text file and make it available