About
This is the personal blog of Ryan Ernst, a Web Systems Developer living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
About the Author
I work with web-based systems: LAMP-based systems are my specialty, and I do conversions from Microsoft systems, and custom CMS software to Drupal and other Open-Source CMSes. I graduated from Dalhousie University with a degree in Computer Science.
I'm a proficient Unix/Linux administrator who enjoys tinkering with hardware and software. I'm an irrepressible tinker who can't resist fiddling with things to improve them. I enjoy thinking my way through problems, and finding a solution is only half the fun.
Other than the technology interests covered here, my interests are in cycling, tabletop/board games, and vintage/retro video games.
The Technology
ryanernst.com is built on Drupal with a deliberately-simple custom theme based on zen. It used to run on wordpress, but Automattic's messing around, and the increasing complexity of wordpress and the decreasing complexity of its documentation (next to nothing was documented!) led me elsewhere. I had been working on several Drupal-based sites, so it was a natural fit.
