From c617051e4a27724ecd965e535fb2c55353de182f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony Grimes Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 23:05:12 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update the blog post. --- source/_posts/2012-01-07-brave-new-world.markdown | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/source/_posts/2012-01-07-brave-new-world.markdown b/source/_posts/2012-01-07-brave-new-world.markdown index 819e1be..b623619 100644 --- a/source/_posts/2012-01-07-brave-new-world.markdown +++ b/source/_posts/2012-01-07-brave-new-world.markdown @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ categories: [RefHeap](http://refheap.com) (short for Reference Heap) is a pasting website. It is being built by myself ([Anthony Grimes](http://github.com/Raynes)) and [Alex McNamara](http://github.com/amcnamara). You may know us (him in particular) as contributors to the popular Clojure learning website [4Clojure](http://4clojure.com). -RefHeap is built with [Clojure](http://clojure.org) from the ground up. There is a little jQuery thrown in there, but almost all of the site is Clojure. We are taking advantage of awesome technologies such as [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/), the [Noir](http://webnoir.org/) web framework, and the excellent [Pygments](http://pygments.org/) syntax highlighting tool. +RefHeap is built with [Clojure](http://clojure.org) and uses a lot of fantastic tools. We are taking advantage of awesome technologies such as [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/), the [Noir](http://webnoir.org/) web framework, and the excellent [Pygments](http://pygments.org/) syntax highlighting tool. Development on this service began right around two weeks ago. Today, Alex and I are excited to launch this website. It has been running at for the majority of those two weeks and we have been using it ourselves. We feel that it is currently stable and useful enough to make available to the public. @@ -67,3 +67,7 @@ This is it. Enough talking. We're launching this sucker. We really like how RefH Sincerely, Anthony Grimes and Alex McNamara. + +**update** + +I updated a sentence near the top where I originally said the site was built from the ground up in Clojure. Some people felt that I was being insincere because we actually use Pygments on the backend for syntax highlighting. We use a *lot* of great tools on the backend. I don't want to imply in any way that Clojure is our sole tool.