In my previous post about building RossFenning.co.uk, I only covered the basic templating system which is suitable for applying a common theme to several pages. However, this still requires making a file for each page on the site. Clearly, this is not how blogs with potentially thousands of entries are done sensibly on the web.
One of the primary purposes of this blog will be to describe different projects as I am working on them and my experience with software tools old and new. My personal approach tends to be one of minimalism and flexibility; I rarely buy into large products or applications when a smaller one will do. It could be argued to be an extension of the Unix philosophy of "do one thing and do it well". My personal feeling tends to be that one application that does many things won't do any of them nearly as well as individual, lightweight tools combined together. Generally tools built with this philosophy in mind will work better together.
