I’ve finally moved tomybeat.com to Webfaction after a few days of consideration. I’ve been at Dreamhost for quite some time now. I’m also still paid up at Dreamhost until November next year, so I’ll be leaving one of my other websites there for the moment until I can get it migrated off WordPress and onto EE. I’ll probably also keep hosting my domains there as Webfaction currently doesn’t provide domain hosting.
Already, I’ve seen noticed that the site loads a bit quicker. The domain resolution went through almost instantly. Setting up custom DNS records for Google apps was also a breeze. Since getting my login information, I’ve setup Trac and Subversion, and imported the Jupiter Reports source from assembla onto my account here. Compared to setting up Trac/SVN on Dreamhost, this was amazingly painless. I kept looking for hidden gotchas, but between the screencast, the forum and the KB, I had absolutely no problems setting up Trac/SVN on Webfaction. To think, I used to spend nearly 4 hours setting this up on Dreamhost in the past.
I’ve also been looking at Django more closely recently. I know I said I’d migrate it off to EE in the past, but my requirements for this site aren’t much (basic blogging and tumblelogging), so I might have a go at turning it into a Django powered blog.
We use Jupiter code reviews a lot at work and a common complaint is the lack of report generation in the plugin. For what it is, it does its job well, so I can’t say too much. Anyway, I took it upon myself to create a report generation wizard plugin from *.review files that Jupiter generates. I had previous experience setting up tools on Linux to process docbook XML into PDF, so a chance to learn how to embed it into Java was a challenge just too good to resist.
So far, I’ve gotten to the point where I can parse the *.review files and print them as PDF files. All that’s really left to do is the wizard part of the plugin. This is the first time I’m attempting to create an Eclipse plugin, so I’m really looking forward to it. It’s also been a while since I’ve used XSL and working on this little project has helped me to brush up on my skills.
I’ve setup a private Space for it on Assembla: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/jupiterreports. I’m using Git for SCM and Trac as the web GUI. The Space is private right now because the code is not quite ready to be shown in public yet. (There’s lots of commenting to be done, debugging and testing code everywhere, etc.) If you’d like access, just contact me and I’ll send you an invite, but it’ll be view/read-only access for now. I’m taking a week off at the end of September and I plan to clean up the code during that time (if I don’t get lazy), and hopefully the code will be ready to go public shortly afterwards.
I really don’t know what caused it, but when I installed FF3 a while ago it also launched iGlasses. The iSight indicator didn’t turn on, so it might not be a privacy issue, but that’s kinda of freaky nonetheless…
“When you speak two languages it is like having two minds, when you live in two cultures, you have lived two lives.” – Anonymous
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Recently we had an issue with CSS styles in one of our applications at work and I’d asked if there was some kind of style guide we could use for reference. All I got was a short, cynical laugh and a “Yeah, right,” from my colleague. As luck would have it, Lisa Bolton has written this wonderful article for A List Apart about writing a style guide.
Installed git, GitNub and signed up for a free git repository account at github this morning. It all seems pretty good so far. Took me a while to figure out how to push my local copy onto the remote repository and get GitNub to display my changes, but I think I’ve got the hang of it. I’ll be using git to manage the source for my afore mentioned new Expression Engine theme. github’s servers seem quite fast and the prices are low, so if all goes well, I might actually sign up for a paid account. I’d always hosted my SVN repositories at DreamHost, but it’s way too slow.
I’m a bit late to the party, but it looks like Dreamhost has now enabled Phusion Passenger for deployment of Ruby on Rails apps on hosting accounts. I’ve always been reluctant to deploy Rails apps on DH because of all the complicated deployment issues regarding DH’s Ruby environment. Now it looks like I can just go ahead and upload my app without any worries. Thanks Dreamhost!
Yes, contrary to popular belief, I’m still alive and so is this blog (barely). I just don’t have time to be on the interwebs as much as I used to.
I’m gonna be moving to ExpressionEngine 2.0 as soon as it is released. WordPress is great, but the fact that EE will be built on top of Code Igniter means I can create my own apps easier without the wrestling match I have with WP every time I try to renew this site (or any other site I’ve built with it in the past). WP is great for blogging and if you have simple requirements, but if you’re like me and are customising/extending it to provide CMS functionality, it can be quite a pain in the ass sometimes. On the other hand, I still greatly prefer using WP as a CMS than Joomla, Xoops, etc. Personally, I prefer getting bare bones functionality and having the option to add on.
With the decision to move (back) to EE, I’ve decided to prepare for the update by moving back to EE 1.6 and I’m creating a new design. (So what else is new? I’ve said that so many times now, but never actually been happy with any design to release it to the public.) Until then, I don’t expect to be writing much here unless there’s something that really must be said. See you after the migration…Whenever that is…Ja!
P.S. Things might be a bit shaky here as I migrate stuff. It’s not called a “sandbox” for nothing.
One of the most beautiful examples of graffiti I’ve seen lately. These guys ripped it up!
Retna x Mac x Estevan Oriol
A lot of street artists cop flak for their art, but how could an image like this be considered a nuisance? If only there were more art like this on the streets, I reckon people would be happier. It’s like walking past a free public art gallery.
via mashkulture.net
