I have a confession to make. Prior until yesterday, I had never committed to an opensource project. I have been using opensource software in one way or another for over 5 years, but until now, I had never found something that I thought that I could fix, or take the time to make better…

So the blog is now set up, and I am happy with it. Time to deploy.

First up, I need to commit the thing to source control. For this I use git. Because I am on my Ubuntu VM, this is nice and easy:

As this is my first post, I figured I may as well talk about what I have built this blog on. While I use only .NET in my day job, I have a virtual private server which runs Ubuntu Server, so recently I have been focussing on Ruby on Rails and the Ruby ecosystem of tools…