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H3RALD.com was created in 2004 by Fabio Cevasco, a technical writer, programmer and IT enthusiast. It features over a hundred "articles":/articles/ covering a wide range of topics, from programming to writing, productivity and even traveling.

As of version 8, H3RALD.com is a completely static web site, except for a few AJAX calls. All the files are generated automatically thanks to the "nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ publishing system, an ingenious creation of "Denis Defreyne":http://www.stoneship.org/. Nanoc can be used to easily create static web sites using Ruby, as explained in "this article":http://www.h3rald.com/articles/take-back-your-site-with-nanoc/.


h3. Licensing

The "articles":/archives/ and all the content published on this web site is licensed under the _Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License_. For other uses, please "contact us":/contact/.

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a>

The source code of this web site, such as its layout, SASS/CSS stylesheets, custom rake tasks and code is licensed under the terms of the <em><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/MIT/">MIT License</a></em> and it is available on "GitHub":http://github.com/h3rald/h3rald.


h3. Requirements

The following ruby libraries (gems) are used to compile this web site:

* *"nanoc":http://rubygems.org/gems/nanoc*, to generate the entire web site
* *"Extlib":http://rubygems.org/gems/extlib*, in some custom Rake tasks
* *"BB-Ruby":http://rubygems.org/gems/bb-ruby*, for the BBCode filter
* *"Builder":http://rubygems.org/gems/builder/*, to create RSS and ATOM feeds
* *"Sass":http://sass-lang.com/*, for the SASS filter
* *"CodeRay":http://rubygems.org/gems/coderay/*, for syntax highlighting
* *"RedCloth":http://rubygems.org/gems/redcloth/*, for Textile support
* *"BlueCloth":http://rubygems.org/gems/bluecloth/*, for Markdown support
* *"Glyph":http://rubygems.org/gems/glyph*, for the Glyph filter

Additionally, the following gems were necessary to migrate from the previous version of this web site, powered by "Typo":http://www.typosphere.org:
* *"MySQL":http://rubyforge.org/projects/mysql/*
* *"Sequel":http://rubyforge.org/projects/sequel/*


h3. Credits

Special thanks to the following people, who made this web site possible:

* "Denis Defreyne":http://www.stoneship.org/, for creating the wonderful "nanoc":http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ site publishing system.
* "David J.Perry":http://scholarsfonts.net/, who designed the "Cardo font":http://scholarsfonts.net/cardofnt.html I used for the H3RALD logo and the navigation buttons.
* The creators of the free "Gentium":http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium font, used throughout the web site.