So I’ve been talking everyone’s heads off about this chat system. We tested it today and it worked. We tweaked a few things and basically celebrated the fact that it was done. I had been under this huge time crunch to get it done today.
Then we heard that we aren’t deploying it on Monday like [...]
I’ve finished the chat system. For now. I’m really feeling good about that.
I know nobody else understands my excitement. When I first heard about this project in April, I had the impression it was going to be the one dreamkiller…the project I just couldn’t figure out. But hey, I survived!
I’m pretty sure I never mentioned my encounter with Bow Tie Tim during my brief employment with Belton Schools. He is called thusly due to a predilection for bowties. He applied for a “webmaster” position we had. I won’t go into the story of why webmaster is in quotes, but the fact that nobody is [...]
If you’re curious, you may see a mockup of our new homepage with a special spokesperson in the lower right-hand corner here.
Yes, that’s me in the lower right hand corner. I can reveal no more details at this time except to say that this particular picture of me won’t actually be used .
First off, I admit to an interest in generating random statistics (check it out here). Today I began actually looking in depth at our website stats and found that since we redesigned the homepage, we’ve more than doubled the clicks on our advertising campaigns and pageviews are up across the board.
I’m happy because, you know, [...]
Last night was some kind of amazing rest-a-thon. I recently realized I have only two places to really be in my apartment; at my desk or in my bed. I have no other seating options, which kind of forces my hand. Lately, I’ve felt a little bit burned out by sitting behind my desk, so [...]
So, yes, some of you (Jamila) are hearing this a second time, but it needs to be said.
A young programmer was fired today. I know from personal experience that he didn’t work very hard and was really lazy. The company got him super cheap with the assumption that he would be willing to learn, but [...]
Imagine this, if you will.
Imagine working on a site where every page is crammed with SEO text. The title of every page on the site, instead of being descriptive, says things like “Cheap Web Hosting, Best Web Host, Dedicated Server”. These are not my ideas, but I am forced to live with them.
Further imagine that [...]
I finally had time to get around to fixing the little problems I was having with the dev version of our Dedicated Servers page. The functionality was fine; it just looked really dumb for a second or two as the javascript loaded.
Click here to see it in action.
As can be expected, I ran into some [...]
April 25, 2008 – 12:41 pm
The new home page is up. There weren’t really any issues with it except that the banner rotation function I wrote was taking longer to download than I expected. I fixed it, though.
Last night I downloaded and installed Kubuntu 8.04. I hated it so I took it back off. Then I installed Fedora and it [...]
