In my last post I griped about my dynamic dns problems. Recap: I used to run the NYC Smalltalk wiki from my home on my VAIO notebook running CentOS Linux until it seems the greedy facist cable company apparently shut me down. I really don’t think it was just me 
Anywho , a gentlemen and a colleague assisted by providing me with access to a shell account from where I could run nmap on my box in order to figure what was really up. Have not had the cycles to do this yet but I will and thanks.
What have I done?
- I changed my web site hosting provider and went with a cheaper package that allowed me to do more, a lot more. I’ll blog about these guys later. I’m quite happy with them and quite disgusted with my previous fat cat provider.
- The more is that we now have http://www.nycsmalltalk.org – a static web site, which I have not yet updated but will and probably will for a while be posting the up coming meeting announcements on.
While making the move I found some interesting and nostalgic items packed in boxes such as:
A site that my wife had built in Flash for us. From the art work you all can tell how old it is. Looking at it just makes me sad.
Anyhow, I will have a wiki back up someday but chances are that I will take the time now to port to WikiWorksSSP i.e. an extended WikiWorks framework based on VisualWorks SSP technology which includes a reasonable security mechanism and move away from SmallWiki. The main reason is that there has not been any continued development of SmallWiki on VisualWorks but rather they moved to Squeak.
-Charles