Posts Tagged web tinkering
Why I Like Dreamhost
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 01/15/2008
First off, a little disclosure. Before signing up for Dreamhost 6 months or so ago, I found a TON of blog posts on how much people love them and blah blah blah… all riddled with referral links. And discount coupons, etc… Their referral network is pretty… pyramid-ish. You won’t find any referral links here, but if you’re desperate for one leave me a comment and I’ll go cook up a discount code.
When I started looking for another host (this blog is hosted on Yahoo, which I continue to love and have used for over 5 years), I just wanted somewhere I could tinker with Ruby on Rails. Dreamhost doesn’t support it fantastically (they do it through Apache & Fast-CGI), and by that I mean it’s slow as balls. But that’s okay. They let you host as many domains as you want out of your space/bandwidth allocation (Yahoo only does 1), so I’m free to come up with an idea, register a domain, and have a prototype up (in either PhP or RoR) in a manner of hours. So in other words–it’s a perfect canvas for tinkering. Read the rest of this entry »
Disclosable WP Categories
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 11/27/2007
This is probably a sign of bad blogging… but I have too many categories already. Maybe if I stuck to one uber-specific topic, I wouldn’t have this problem–but that wouldn’t be nearly as much fun. What I needed instead was a decent way of controlling which categories are displayed. After looking around for awhile, I didn’t really find any plugins that did just what I wanted: limit the category display to only those that have a certain number of categories. Several of them allow you to designate certain categories as public or private or hide them completely from the home page, but I didn’t want to hide them for good.
I just wanted disclosable categories.
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BarCamp and Bike vs Car
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 11/13/2007
My friend Annie and I went to a BarCamp over the weekend. I’d never heard of them before, but it wasn’t too hard to talk me into an all night programming event. A BarCamp is sort of like a grass-roots conference where the participants are also the ones who present little mini-modules. This one had an UX application design contest, some speakers from Facebook, and a guy from Amazon. The details on the wiki (and Facebook group, which is where Annie heard about it) were a little sparse,but we understood it to be an overnight programming contest–where you start an app at night and present your results the following afternoon. Read the rest of this entry »
Business Reply Mail (ouch)
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 10/02/2007
One of my cockamamy schemes that I’ve been working on involves distributing lots of pre-paid envelopes to people who probably aren’t going to bother responding. Just out of curiosity, I thought it would be cool into getting some of those business reply envelopes so that I’d only have to pay for the ones that get sent back. The long and short if it is that the finances involved are a little nuts. Read the rest of this entry »
Dimewise
Posted by SimianLogic in Uncategorized on 06/21/2007
I stumbled across this site earlier and thought it was a bit more similar to what I want to build. The transaction page (just going off the demo video) is a simpler, though–transactions can only have one category. I definitely want to support multiple tags per entry.
I’ve also been thinking about other ways to do the tagging. Read the rest of this entry »