I don’t have anything mind-blowing to share, but I have been busy with a lot of random things.
At work we’re still working on this phat rails project. It’s a support application for an even bigger project. Most recently we cobbled together an image server that serves images via Tomcat (which is what the primary application is server through) using an HTTP request. Why did we do this? Because Apache modrewrite is not our idea of fun. The rails app takes the images and thumbifies them in real time using RMagick (rails ImageMagick). I’ll then use a lightbox plugin to show the full image. Yay.
I also have a handful of websites for clients for my “side gig.” Most of them are PHP, which I decided that I am done with. That’s probably part of the reason that I am also done with Perl. PHP just leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you know. It’s like that rancid grease they use to cook your fries. The fries may taste good at first, but in the end they are really really really bad for you. That’s PHP.
So I’m working on moving these sites to Dreamhost where I can happily serve them in Rails. It’s slow-going, but you pick up some good tips with these sorts of things. These sites don’t have a lot of complicated stuff going on in them, so it’s been a good opportunity to get back to the basics with the MVC stuff.
I also just discovered last night that Network Solutions (the host) makes it really difficult to transfer a domain away from them. You cannot unlock the domain in the control panel if you are “just” the admin or tech contact for the domain. F that. Games like that may move Network Solutions into the realm of CI Host as the Most Bastard Host Company Ever. Probably not, though. CI Host were actually thieves. I got out of that deal thanks to Citibank stopping payment on some old charges. Seriously - they are crooks.
I’m also trying to find some freelance graphic artists in my area that won’t cost a lot of dollars for some site design.
I did an MS 150 ride last weekend – I rode my bicycle 150 miles in 2 days.
We’re about to redo our backyard.
Good times all around….