Road to validation.
Overseeing the current Wayne State University homepage is like running with a tiny pebble in your shoe. You feel it every step but your going so fast you cannot stop to take it out.
Working with a site so large it can become discouraging but taking one step at a time one can accomplish anything. Yesterday [...]
Save the Environment - Ditch the home server
Most technical people I know have at least one server in their house to share files and or keep backups of their important stuff. Mine is on 24/7, it takes quite a bit of time to manage and I always worry if my data is really secure. It happens to sit in my basement in [...]
Battling massive amounts of email
Sending email from a web site using PHP’s mail() function is a pretty routine task. Contact forms, friend requests, alerts, errors… Servers hosting one or two sites the time to send an email is not even noticeable, but on a server that hosts 200+ sites the time creeps up the two to three second range.
In [...]
New Host! New Home!
My new setup is quite comfortable. Hosting by Joyent running on a Shared Accelerator using Mongrel proxyied through Apache to run a Rails application known as SimpleLog with a green inspired simple style theme created by Myself using a new CSS framework called Blueprint.
From the time my DNS change went through it took only about [...]
Working with Blueprint: A CSS Framework
So I decided to change my blogging software, from no software (Blogger) to SimpleLog. I setup everything up in my dev environment and it was by far the easiest setup I have seen so far. Took about 10 minutes including setting up the virtual hosts.
While getting super interested in my blog again I was looking [...]