Up and running with PmpknPi

Time for a change -- I've been needing to move my blog to a different server for awhile now, so I'm using this opportunity to change from Typo (a Rails-based blog platform) to PmpknPi , which advertises itself as "A RESTful Blog API written in Merb."

If you've a techie who's been hiding under a rock, and don't know what Merb is, it's an MVC Web-app development framework written in Ruby. It's basically a competing/complementary framework to Rails -- much more minimalist and performance-oriented.

I'm running this blog on Merb with the Thin Ruby Web server , a small, fast, event-driven HTTP server written in Ruby.

Merb is what we're using to build a lot of the Seesmic Web app , including the Ajax Web UI that's my primary focus.

We've been hard at work at Seesmic building out our REST API , which at least in part explains the dead air on this blog. (Twitter is probably another good target for finger-pointing on that count.)

Anyhow, with the switch of this blog to PmpknPi, I lose a lot of the bloat of both Rails and Typo, and should have something a bit more hackable. I'll also get something I should have put a premium on long, long ago -- code syntax highlighting from the excellent CodeRay library. 'Bout frigging time.