Daniel Egeberg

I got a bit tired of Debian so I decided to take a backup of my VPS, wipe the HD and put Gentoo on it instead. Especially that Debian’s repos are always outdated annoys me a lot. People claim it’s for stability, but I think it’s really annoying having to wait for new features that I need. For instance, Doctrine (an excellent PHP ORM) requires PHP 5.2.3+, but Debian’s repos are stuck at PHP 5.2.0. Using Gentoo I’ll have more recent versions of software. Installing things take quite a lot more time with Gentoo because it has to compile everything itself instead of getting binaries from an external repository, but once everything is setup then I shouldn’t have to install things too often, so I don’t think it’s a major problem. Anyways, I somehow managed to screw up my Debian install, so I figured I might as well put Gentoo on it seeing as I had thought about it for a while.

Right, so I have this VPS and I have this domain… Until now I haven’t really used it for anything at all. Initially I thought about writing my own ultra-lightweight blog software using either Zend Framework, django or Ruby on Rails. As a matter of fact, I started doing it with all of those frameworks but I never got really far. Ultimately I went with a Wordpress installation and right now it’s even using the default theme. I’ll probably end up using a pre-made theme as well, but chances are that I’ll take a stab at creating a layout myself.

Anyways, this will be a place where I will write about anything I might find interesting (so that means anything could pop up here). Furthermore, I’ve occasionally been applying for freelance web development jobs and in relation to that, people have often asked for a kind of portfolio. A such one does not exist so I will probably extend this site to include a such one when I actually have something to put on it.

Actually, I start a lot of projects and the vast majority of them are, unfortunately, never finished. This blog is another of these “projects” and I hope I’ll be able to keep it going by regularly posting information here.