A Techy Blog for the Techy Masses
What started as a CIS project for creating technical documents has – over a span of two years – become PLink. Several months ago a corporeal voice said to me – it might have been my own – “Ben, why don’t you apply some of the research you’ve been doing, and make a search engine?” The idea (essentially) was to make a search engine that relied on voting to rank search results.
To make a long story short, during the process of making this search engine, I realized that PLink would be a good venue to dust off some old code I had been working on for creating online technical documents – this became somewhat of an obsession. I began outlining the sorts of features that I would enjoy in blogging software, with an emphasis on the ability to create technical documents online.
The result? The PLink document software, I feel, does a good job of serving both the casual Blogger/Social-Networker, while also allowing for the creation of fairly robust online documents. Perhaps, an example would help illustrate this:
