Used to be that writing front-end code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) wasn’t terribly complex. The syntax of HTML and CSS isn’t all that difficult to get the hang of and JavaScript (back in the day) was just a tool to validate form fields and play funny tricks on poor unsuspecting visitors. These days, JavaScript has become …
I’ve been using Amazon’s S3 service for a couple months now. It was working OK using s3sync and a cron job, but it seemed like it wasn’t actually making incremental backups and I wasn’t 100% sure that it was backing up everything (i.e. it appeared to be crapping out once in a while). I searched …
I recently acquired a 256 Slice from Slicehost. While their distribution selection is good, I was hoping for something, well, different. My old VPS is rocking Ubuntu (quite well) but I just want something else. Slicehost’s other distributions weren’t going to cut it. Ubuntu Dapper – Already running that.. that’s how I got here. CentOS …
One of the odd things I’m finding with Mephisto is that none of the templates I looked at had monthly archives in the sidebar. That’s generally not that strange, but Mephisto doesn’t really paginate (out of the box, anyway) sections (categories), so the lack of any way for a user (that would be you) to …
So, I’ve been reading up a bit on prototype.js and its Ajax helpers. It’s an amazing tool and helped me write the bit of info at the top of the page. It’s pretty basic, but here’s the code that does most of the work: function lastfm() { new Ajax.Request(‘/as/recenttracks.xml’, { method: ‘get’, onLoading: function() { …
When I switched from WordPress to Typo, I faced the issue of keeping my WordPress permalinks in Typo. Unfortunately, there’s no simple way of doing this. I noticed the ‘redirects’ table in the database, but I could never get it to realy do anything. So, I had to dig in and find the bit of …
I can’t quite figure this out. I’m trying to write a simple rule to force randys.org to redirect to www.randys.org but it’s not realy working. Of course, I haven’t tried it on a vhost that isn’t proxying request to mongrel. Here’s the rule: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.randys.org$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.randys.org/$1 …
Wow. I’ve been testing the possibility of running Typo on my VPS with the pre-notion that it just wouldn’t work very well. I think I may be wrong. It’s been running for about a week while I tweak some shit and so far, my memory performance has been stable. Of course, thing would probably be …
In following with the LAMP, MAMP, and WAMP themes, I’ve come up with my own acronym: LiMP. Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP. Of course, this doesn’t really follow the conventions of the other acronyms (my OS isn’t represented). Mainly because adding an ‘M’ just doesn’t sound (or look) right. It’s a great setup and I recently reconfigured …
Part of my decision to change hosting providers was to expand my knowledge of technologies. I know how to write PHP, SQL and a whole host of other languages. What I was less familiar with was the servers that run them and other parts of a hosting system (mail, dns et al). Switching to a …
