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This website was initially created in the last days of the year 2001 and has been continuously evolving since then.
Technical
Client-side
- XHTML 1.0 Strict for semantic markup
- Cascading Stylesheets for presentation
- JavaScript (with jQuery) for interaction and behaviour
The result usually looks best in Gecko-based browsers (Firefox et al.). However, I test on other browsers and fix presentation flaws from time to time.
Server-side
- Python as high-level, dynamic programming language
- Werkzeug as WSGI toolkit, for URL dispatching, and Atom feeds
- Riak as distributed key/value store
- Genshi as template engine
- reStructuredText as content format in some places (via docutils)
- Pygments for syntax highlighting
- Apache HTTP Server with mod_wsgi as Web server
Visual
The main site style is inspired by Dan Cederholm's blue TicTac theme.
Most of the 16x16 pixel icons (the cute ones) used on this website are part of the excellent Silk Icons set by Mark James, who liberally made them available for free under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
The few 32x32 pixel icons are freely provided by PixelMixer.
Tools
The development toolchain is mostly limited to:
- Vim for code and markup
- Mercurial (hg) for distributed version control
- Mozilla Firefox and extensions:
Hosting
Originally, it was served by the guys at LANparty.de (due to NWSnet.de being LAN-party related). After some commercial providers in between, it is hosted on my own virtual machine as of September 2006.