Jeff Perrin :: Archives for June, 2004
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
So I stepped on a 1/4″ bolt yesterday night, without shoes on. Managed to drive it a good distance into my foot, at least far enough that I had to actually *unscrew* it to get it out (how gross is that?). Initially there was much blood, but it stopped after a while. I ended up going to the hospital, getting an x-ray to verify there was nothing still left in there, and then getting a tetanus shot (I was due anyways). All in all, it was an interesting experience… Especially the part where I found out my redneck roommate doesn’t like the sight of blood ;)
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Monday, June 14th, 2004
I decided to take my blog postings off of the home page for my site, since in some situations it was taking up to 30 seconds for my site to load. I’m not sure if it’s a problem with .Text being slow, webhost4life’s database servers being slow, or something else. I know that our work blog doesn’t suffer from any performance problems, so it’s probably just a webhost4life issue. Until then, witness the inanity that is my homepage.
That being said, webhost4life seems to be plenty fast for undercurrentsonline.com, so maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree. Just in case I’m not, however, I noticed cityhost.ca offers really cheap rates, plus they have ASP.NET access using Mono on their Fedora web servers. Could be worth trying just for the novelty value. Hell, for $9.95 a month I’ll try anything.
Just as a side note; In order to perform this admittedly minor update to the site, all I had to do was download the SiteContent.xml file, add in a new section called ‘blog’, change some content, and then upload the file back up. Blam! Menues updated, content updated, everything working nicely. Maybe I’m on to something.
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Sunday, June 6th, 2004
Well, I’m actually starting to get some stuff done. The most obvious is another complete re-design of my website. Under the hood, it’s more than just a re-design, though. I’m currently testing a new project called TestostelesWeb, that encapsulates the details of a simple website based on an xml file. If you want to see how it works, you can download the code for this site in the ‘Code’ section.
Here’s a list of everything that’s been going on in code land:
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TestostelesWeb released to the world. I really think that this could be useful to a lot of people.
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Testosteles.NET (My data layer/OR Mapper) has a project setup on Sourceforge
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Rockin’ site redesign. It’s all still xhtml 1.0 compliant, with all presentation done using CSS.
In un-related news, the Flames were robbed *yet again* last night. That was clearly a goal.
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2004
Well, it’s been almost a year since I was hired at Kanga, and I’m just now *finally* taking my first holiday. I’ll be off for the next two weeks and will hopefully have some time to get out and do some boating. (It’s been a while).
In addition to paddling, I’ve been working on a couple of coding projects that I’m going to try to release within the next week. One of them is my data persistence layer, which I’ve used in numerous projects for over a year. It’s evolved to the point where a re-write was sorely needed…. Which is now almost completely finished. I’ve just imported the initial code to Sourceforge cvs, so it should be downloadable shortly: http://sourceforge.net/projects/testosteles
In addition to the data persistence stuff, a more recent project I’ve been working on is a very simple xml-based web content mangement system. It generates site content and navigation based on a simple xml file, so there’s no database setup needed. I’ll provide more details once I’ve got a working site… I’ll probably convert my personal homepage over to the new system once it’s working.
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