Yes, so. That project I previously called “MyWiki” has been rebranded as Sqwee – Simple Quick Web Editing Engine. Which is silly, but I like the acronym.

This project came about because I was using Pimki for keeping track of various thoughts and things, but accessing my home server remotely started to become a pain (stupid ISP, I imagine). It became such a pain that I got a real hosting plan with Site5 (link over there somewhere) and this nifty domain name.

But! I didn’t think Site5 would appreciate me running Pimki because it is tied up with WEBrick and therefore had to be running as a background thing and use a non-standard port. I looked around for something Ruby-based (like Pimki) but easy to set up on a shared host.

Sadly, I didn’t find anything that I liked. So, as these stories usually go, I made my own. I had some specific goals in mind:

• Easy to install
• Fast
• Simple design
• Quick creation and editing of pages

Out of that came the very minimalist Sqwee. It’s like a wiki, but only in that you can dynamically create and edit (and delete) pages. There are no accounts, revision tracking, or other bells and whistles (on account of wanting to keep it fast). It doesn’t even have password protection built in…but that’s because it would be a pain and any web server will have that already.

There are some planned features, but the idea is to not let anything slow down page rendering or creation. In fact, pages are basically stored as static HTML. The only “rendering” is putting the header, navigation section, and the content together, like many websites do.

This was my first time doing AJAX stuff, so I went ahead and used the Prototype library to get going. It’s pretty nice. So that means nice, quick creation and editing of pages. I like it.

Well, that’s probably enough rambling about Sqwee. If you are curious, see the website or check out the demo.