Technology

The Main Web Site

There are two main pieces to the web site as it is now (2005).

The static content is generated by scripts in a language I arrived at ("designed" is too dignified) specifically for the purpose of maintaining this site. It runs on MS Access 97. More about this later...
The dynamic content, i.e. the shopping cart and the search engine, is all written in Perl using .dbm files for data storage. It is long overdue for a massive overhaul, but it's pretty reliable even so. More about this, also, later.
- The shopping cart and checkout use CGI-LIB
...three. There are now three parts, if you count this wiki.