'Web Stuff' Category
In Soviet Russia, LiveJournal Blogs on You!
First off, apologies for this post’s title. It had to be done, though. On Monday, LiveJournal was sold to a Russian company. When I first read about it, one eyebrow raised slightly, but I didn’t think much of it. Then I started noticing comments coming in from my friends and colleagues talking about how they [...]
Upgraded to WordPress 2.2
Just a quick post to test whether or not my upgrade to WordPress 2.2 was successful.
Thoughts on Rails Performance
2007-03-07: Added results for testing with Mongrel and the ActiveRecord session store using MyISAM tables. As many of you know I’m a rather big fan of Ruby on Rails, the web application development framework. I adore Ruby as a language for all sorts of tasks, and I’ve found I’m able to get a great deal [...]
New Look
I decided I’d grown weary of the old style for the site and came across a theme I rather liked. It’s called “Off-Center” for obvious reasons, but I’m not 100% sure I’m going to leave it that way; I might expand it out to fill the whole page. It was designed by the [...]
Sun’s “First One’s Free” Push
Sun Microsystems, venerable system and software vendor of the Unix world, has a rather interesting promo going on. It’s part of their try-before-you-buy deal, where you can get a free 60-day run on one of their mid- or high-end servers and workstations. According to Jonathan in his blog post, if you post a [...]