exposed... quick, start the motors. no wimbledon fc

After having been ‘outed’ as a blogger yesterday I have finally pulled finger and put syntho into production. Which means it is considerably nippier today after I have set up fastcgi. (It’s been a while since I’ve had to mess with Apache configs okay)

I would just like to point out that Wimbledon FC doesn’t really exist having been purchased and shipped up to Milton Keynes under the monikor of MK Dons aka Franchise FC. Wimbledon fans responded by setting up a completely new club in 2002AFC Wimbledon. AFC would normally expand to Association Football Club but in Wimbledon’s case, it means ‘A Fans Club’.

AFC Wimbledon started life at the bottom of the huge football league pyramid, have already been promoted twice during which time they have set a new Football League record in unbeaten games. A great book on the history of Wimbedon FC and the birth of Wimbledon AFC is The Spirit Of Wimbledon: Footballing Memories Of The Dons 1922-2003 which can be purchased from Cherry Red Records of all places.

Here’s a quote from the book by Laurie Sanchez, scorer of the winning goal in the 1988 FA Cup Final on the state of affairs.

What saddens me is the situation now. My history has been extinguished with the demise of Wimbledon FC. With the attempt to move to Milton Keynes, how can they claim a creditable line to Wimbledon? I have a great respect for what AFC Wimbledon have done – and the fans have the same great memories as I do – but AFC Wimbledon have never won the FA Cup. The 1988 Cup final has been consigned to history – it belongs to neither club. It belongs solely to the players who played in it and the fans who watched it.

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As the astute will have noticed syntho is Typo based, which use Rails as it’s foundation. Rails is a Ruby web application framework that is getting considerable coverage in the tech sphere.

Frankly I would have preferred to use a Python blog tool as Python is my dynamic language of choice. But after a quick scope, including trying a couple, I decided to give Typo a whirl. And it does what I need and to boot seems to be gaining a decent amount of traction of it’s own.