I've finally done it: I've switched my blog over to Domino. I did it for a couple reasons:

• To silence the voice in the back of my head constantly saying "why are you using WordPress? You're a freaking web programmer! Write your own!"
• To put my Ruby-in-XPages code through its paces in the way only a live site can.

I've already had to fix a couple holes in my Ruby adapter, mostly revolving around the fact that I haven't bothered to properly handle serialization and JSF's StateHolder interfact. For now, I've patched the worst problems, but this gives me a great reason to come up with a proper solution. To test it out, I'm making sure to avoid "#{javascript: ...}" code blocks in favor of using plain-EL and "#{ruby: ... }" exclusively. So far, the only really awkward parts are the giant swaths of yellow-squiggly "I don't understand this" underlining in Designer and having to put xp:repeat values on xp:dataContexts rather than writing the computation inline. Not too shabby.

The whole thing's a bit shoot-from-the-hip at the moment, since it's only existed for a day. There's no search (though that'll be easy), the site design is from my old college-era blog, and I have to write the posts' HTML by hand in the Notes client (you know, like on all modern blogging platforms). But hey, I have the old posts in there, plus an archives list and, as long as it doesn't mysteriously die again like it did a minute ago, Akismet-backed commenting.

So let's see how this thing works! Don't be surprised to see the WordPress version again if things go catastrophically wrong.