In early fall of last year, I was gifted the domain andrewberls.com. I had no particular use for it at the time, but it seemed like a handy thing to hold on to. I decided I wanted to build a portfolio site for myself, to show off a little of what I’ve done up until this point and shamelessly promote myself. The result you see here is powered by Sutro, a blogging engine I wrote from scratch using Ruby on Rails.

… The various features I chose to initially implement forced me to finally learn Ruby and what Rails was all about, the model-view-controller architecture, databases, authentication algorithms, optimization techniques, and some sneaky JavaScript tricks with a healthy dose of jQuery.