New Horizons

Well, I have been working on moving my main website (ELW) over to the phalcon based system I have learned. It is lots of work but otherwise going smoothly. On the side, I have been tinkering with some development sites and the nginx server - ostensibly the fastest server in the world. And as I explored in Big News, setting up the development server was a crucial step towards achieving this goal. I'm glad to say that it's now up and running smoothly.

As I discussed in More On That,In More On That, I wrote about how it's common for me to experience issues when starting to learn new software. But this time, I'm more optimistic because of the potential to integrate the apache lucene search engine. It usually does when I start working with some new softwares. but I am even more excited about this since this means I can incorporate the apache lucene search engine on my server to work with my site. Building on ideas from my previous experience with setting up development servers, as I explored in Big News, this will allow me to enhance my site's functionality. Fun thing is that I discovered some software from apache called nutch that I can use to make my own bot to crawl the web. Cool. Just like google. More on that later. for now I have to finished rebuilding the main site and then set up a new server to serve it up from.

Related to what I discussed in Moving, where I'm currently hosting my site, this experience has taught me the value of flexibility and customization that comes with owning a server. As it's not possible for phalcon or lucene search software to be used on my current hosting setup, I've learned some valuable lessons. Related to what I discussed in Moving, where I'm currently hosting my site, this experience has taught me the value of flexibility and customization that comes with owning a server.