If you are seeing this post, that means that my site has now reached its new host over at www.dreamhost.com! Due to the recent downtime and issues on my previous host I have decided to switch, and lately I have been seeing many new sites on dreamhost (like www.coolosxapps.com, so I figured I would try them out!
Anyways, thats all for now. New site is coming alone nicely, so expect it soon!
!– jdyck –!
Wow. Downtime sucks yo! And apparently, so does my host! Well, not entirely. My host, cpphosting.net, somehow managed to lose my account. Don’t ask how or why, but regardless after some harasing on AIM, he managed to get me back online. Luckily my good friend, Josh hooked me up with a premo cronjob to backup my site every night, so I had a full backup from the day it went down, and upon restoration had the site back up in 1/2 hour. So that was actually about 2 weeks of downtime. I wasn’t too worried about it, but I eventually did need the site back up and running.
In the mean time, I have been working on a few other projects, most which I cannot mention yet, so I’ll let ya guess. The good news is that I starting working on a redesign again. The bad news is I scrapped the whole old-new design and started from scratch again. This time, I am not re-using any code. This site was coded so long ago that as I was redesigning it, I ended up re-coding a lot of it more effiecently with new stuff that I have learnt in the past few years, so this time around I am only reusing the database, everything will be new. There was waaay too many bugs in here anyways.
Another thing that I have decided to do is get some good Web2.0 integration going on. I have recently started using del.icio.us and flickr, so instead of the (buggy/functionless) gallery that I built, I am going to just use flickr, as well as have some del.icio.us bookmarks up as well. It’s gonna take some time to learn how to use their APIs, but I think in the end it will speed up development. I also plan on messing around with some AJAX, though nothing big as there is really no need for it here. I’ve been using it a lot lately and I really like it, though I am still tweaking my AJAX toolkit to get it perfected.
The next totally exciting news I just read, my favourite Indie band, Death Cab for Cutie is coming to Winnipeg! I already saw them in Montreal in October, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be scoping them out in my home town again! Wow, first I get a weekend, then news of my favourite band coming to town… what else could I ask for, besides maybe a bit of pink.
Lastly, I command you all to go out and buy a Logitech diNovo. I am sure everyone has looked at it on the Logitech web site and wished they could afford it. Well, I bought myself a birthday present! It’s still hurtin the bank, but wow is it ever amazing. I have yet to start tweaking everthing, but I have never used a better keyboard, and the MX1000 that comes with it is the best mouse I have used to date (MX510, you will always hold a place in my heart). So when those income tax cheques come in, and you finish paying off you’re credit card, spend that extra bit on the diNovo, you won’t regret it!
!– jdyck –!
What kind of blog doesn’t update in almost 2 months! I’ll tell you, my kind! I am sorry, but I have actually really been working hard on pushing out my new XHTML design, but ran into a slight delay.
Basically I was using my desktop computer as a test server for the new site, but I blew a motherboard and some RAM, so I had to first get that replaced, and now I decided to set up a dedicated server at home. I have been working on that after work at night, but it turns out some of my older hardware that was going into it is not quite up to snuff. A dead hard drive may set me back even longer. I tried a low level format last night, but then when installing windows 2000, it blue screened, prefect! So I will have to look more into it tonight.
Oh, and also in mid October I went on a road trip from Winnipeg (My home town) to Montreal to see Death Cab for Cutie, my favourite indie band, and let me tell you they rocked! I will try to get some pictures up within the next few years (hehe, jokes). Their opening band was also awesome, called Youth Group. I bought thier CD after their act and I love it! So check those 2 out if you haven’t heard them.
Other then that, the release of Firefox 1.5 yesterday, and the LANs that I have been attending, I have no news to report right now. Once I get my computer situation back in gear, expect more posts! Bye for now.
!– jdyck –!
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