Madboa.com

The domain name madboa.com is an homage to a nickname I had when I was a counselor at Arrowhead Lutheran Camp in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Camp counseling was a large part of my early adulthood, and Id be a lesser person without my experience at Arrowhead and Camp Omega . When I decided to apply for a personal domain, the choice for a name wa... s a no-brainer. Part of the fun of having my own web site is it provides me the opportunity to choose the technological tools I want to use to create and maintain it. All the tools listed below are Free software. Ive capitalized Free because it means more than $0.00. It means that I can freely access, alter, and redistribute the original source code. It also means that Im not beholden to any company for the continued maintenance of my software. Bootstrap is powerful and popular framework for web development. Started at Twitter, Bootstrap provides web styles and components that allow most anyone with a text editor to develop sites the look as good on mobile devices as they do on desktop computers. Hugo is an engine for building static web sites like this one that arent database-driven but that rely on plain old-fashioned text files. Hugo provides a workflow that allows developers to separate cleanly content from design. Lots of folks have contributed to the Hugo Themes Site , so you can pick a ready-made look or use their work as a tutorial for developing your own. Vim is Bram Moolenaars improved version of the classic vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. It is for me the quickest way to create and maintain text files. Perl is so flexible and multi-faceted that its easy to forget how easy it makes so many tasks. Larry Walls brainchild sets the bar for scripting languages. It also sets the standard for community involvement: CPAN , the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is home to a myriad of incredibly useful modules for everything from web programming to playing poker.Read More