This colophon describes the author and technology used in the production of this web site, wordzoo.com.
The author, designer, and programmer of this web site is Jared Rhine.
All hosting services for this site are provided by Jared Rhine as well. The server is a personally owned 1U SuperMicro rackmount server (1x AMD Opteron 244 1.8Ghz, 4GB RAM, 4x 400GB 7200RPM SATA drives in a 4-disk hardware RAID 5 using a 3Ware 9550SX SATA controller with battery backup unit) colocated with GNi at 365 Main in San Francisco. The server is running Xen and 6 virtual machines, Debian operating systems, and LVM and xfs for filesystem storage.
This web site has had many different incarnations and implementations. The current implementation is an intentional mashing together of multiple technologies as a pedogogical/training exercise.
- www.wordzoo.com
- Web application framework: Django 1.0 in Python 2.5
- Web server: Django development mode
- Template language: Django templates
- Global site wrapper implemented by template inheritance
- jared.wordzoo.com
- Web application framework: Ruby on Rails 2.2 with Ruby 1.8.7
- Web server: WEBrick 1.3
- Reverse proxy: Apache 2.2.x + mod_proxy
- Markup language: XHTML + CSS2
- Javascript framework: jQuery 1.3
- Fonts: Geneva, Verdana, sans serif