Back to basics, focusing on essentials
So I decided it was time to update the look of my site. I knew I needed more room for content, code snippets just don’t fit in 300 pixels. This update was primarily inspired by my recent decision to move from Palm to Blackberry. Back to basics, getting rid of the clutter and flare, my [...]
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Popular sites and their lack of validation
Launching a new site got me exploring some new code bases and I became disappointed with the disregard large social sites have for html validation of snippets they disburse to their user community. Since I wanted my site plain and simple to start instead of writing a bunch of code to use common API’s I [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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