In the best tradition of “geeks love to build it themselves”, I’ve decided to move my technical blog here to my home page, now running on the Rails 2.0 release candidate. It’s using the same Rails-based blogging engine we developed for Zoodango 2.0. (Though I haven’t hooked up the tags and Atom feeds to my controller yet—I’ll get to that shortly.) Best way to alpha-test our software is to use it ourselves, I suppose.

We pretty much gutted our code base for Zoodango 2.0 and did a lot of rearchitecting based on our experience writing the first incarnation. As I have time, I’ll try to share a little about what we’ve learned from the past two years of working with Rails. Maybe, if Bill and James agree, we’ll also open-source a…

As I was crossing the US-Canadian border recently during my weekly commute between Seattle and Vancouver, the border guard interviewing me seemed quite puzzled by what I do. I told him I’m studying at Regent College, a graduate school of theology (or some consider it a seminary) in Vancouver, BC. “So you’re a minister?” he asked me. “No,” I answered, ”I’m a senior software engineer.”

So why is the co-founder and chief software architect of a Seattle internet startup studying in a religious program alongside Christian pastors, missionaries, and theological scholars? Would it not make more sense to be taking courses in MySQL or Java EE?

It’s for the simple reason…