Ross Fenning

It is often highlighted that given any proverb, one can find another that supposedly contradicts it. "Many hands make light work" preaches the value of sharing a work load over many people whilst "too many cooks spoil the broth" warns us of the perils of and the complications from having too many people on a project.

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It was the Summer of 2004 when I first attended the Cambridge Folk Festival. The Afro Celt Soundsystem had played the previous year and I regretted missing that (which was in fact the same reason I first attended the Hebridean Celtic Festival in 2008; the Afro Celts had played in 2006). I wouldn't have predicted myself on one of the stages even in a minor capacity half a decade later.

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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.

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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.

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After much procrastination, I've finally reworked this website. The overall design is much the same, but unfinished details have finally been addressed and a few new features have been added. Most notably, is that I'm launching this new blog with it.

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