In case anyone was watching, I switched the blog from a generic WordPress with a slightly customized theme to octopress. I'm using the excellent Octoflat theme with a few notable tweaks. I reintroduced the search and feed buttons as well as expanded the navigation to allow nested menus. The theme allows for nested menu elements and while 2 levels deep is highly acceptable, I happen to use 3.
I'm writing this post using the excellent MarkPad which serves all of my needs perfectly. You don't need a markdown editor, but having one with live-preview that reinforces the markdown syntax is killer. That I can insert a URL and it automatically format the document accordingly is a small but useful touch.
I plan on posting the various tweaks that make up this blog. While there aren't a ton, I think a few of the concepts are worth expanding on. I don't claim these tweaks are original by any means but I found a lot of ideas needed to be fleshed out a little more to be acceptable for my tastes. Yes, I'm anal.
I expect nothing but great things from this migration though it took roughly a month of quite a few tinker sessions to get things where I wanted it. I blame using Ruby on Windows to be a big culprit but also my n00bness got in the way in some areas. It also took me quite a bit to grok how deployments functioned but now that everything gels, I don't expect any issues.
The site will continue to be a slight work in progress as I button up some of the loose ends. I have a few design tweaks in mind and I'm looking to expand my portfolio with more current projects. Not everything I've done in the past 2 years can be seen unfortunately but there's quite a body of work piling up, waiting to be shown.