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Category Archives: Websites
The newby web programmer. Episode 1.
This post is for my buddy Jimmy. He's a teacher in CT and has set up a Wordpress.com site for his classroom. Of course the parents love it, and he's the young techno-hip teacher in the school so his principal has allowed him to go and set up a new site for his school, whose hideous and outdated site was left for dead by the side of the road several years ago, apparently. He just sent me an email asking about downloading Wordpress. I responded by asking why because downloading and using Wordpress isn't the piece of cake that you might think it is if you've never dealt with web servers and databases before. So I decided to make this public so that he and I and we may refer to it from now on. Besides, this hasn't been blogged about nearly enough...
Also posted in Technology/Internet Tagged Blog software, Content management systems, MAMP, MySQL, WordPress 4 Comments
On Drupal.
So far it's been a little boring. I've added a few modules, mostly to achieve some comment functionality that Wordpress comes with almost out of the box, and somehow I find my database up to 90+ tables. And the comments don't even really work that well.
So, in researching how to move from Drupal to Wordpress (since I've of course been doing mountains of Wordpress hacking for the last weeks since moving to Drupal), I've discovered that it's basically not easily doable, due to the above mentioned database bloat and variety of setups. Thus...
Version 4.0 shall be a Rails app. I've said this before, but I'm going to have to manually import all of my old posts and comments shit like that in via SQL most likely. To the layman this means a lot of interesting and educational work. I'll bet I can copy what I need for a functional blog in <10 tables. Probably more like <6.
You'll know. thanks for stopping by. I'll have something more interesting to write about soon.
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This is truly fascinating…
A glimpse into design and corporate culture, and where the two often clash.
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Plans, plans, plans.
I think I'd better start writing them down. My list of things that I want to accomplish on the RRE website is only getting longer as I tick off more of the major infrastructure aspects of the site. Luckily the foundation of the site seems to be stable enough and the initial reaction was pleased if not excited. I think everyone is willing to cut some slack, which is good. So. The list...
Media page - needs attention. The media player is slack, the photos are non-existant and the entire look just needs some style.
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go for launch
My cherry is no more. Yesterday I fired off my first real website. Nothing exploded except for the email for a little bit. Turns out when you switch servers, the email and the website don't show up at the same time. So most of today was spent learning about MX servers and stuff.
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Reddit.
I've been killing time the past couple of weeks with Digg and Reddit. Yes, I just recently discovered them. The Digg experience is more polished, but Reddit feels a little bit more real. They're both essentially services where people submit links to interesting articles that are then voted on by the crowd - up or down - and the ones that the crowd finds more interesting naturally float to the top. Reddit's edge for me though is that users can submit their own essays for display/storage on the site - sorta like the rants and raves section on Craigslist. The health care debate has been raging (literally) for the the past couple of weeks, and I find the discussion on articles and essays to be as good as the articles themselves.
Here's a nice rant on the Blue Cross. I can certainly identify.
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A VC
I really like Fred Wilson's blog. He's a tech VC (venture capitalist) based in New York. He's steady, and often I fall behind since he puts out some good stuff on a daily basis. Following the tack of this post, Facebook just added an SMS friend feature to their business pages. All you do if you're not already a fan is text "fan RailroadEarth" to whatever the number is. The question I could use your assistance with is how best to get the word out about this.
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Media Temple
The new host. Hopefully you didn't swing by herein the last three hours whilst I've been wrestling with moving from GoDaddy over here. If anyone discovers anything funky, would you please let me know? The comments are down there >>>
Also posted in Programming. 4 Comments
The newby web programmer. Episode 2.