Honey, I’m home
If you’re seeing this, congratulations: the DNS changes have propagated and you’re seeing this site, in all its redesigned glory, at its new home: a Joyent Accelerator.
This took quite a bit longer than I’d expected, largely because — while ostensibly working on redesigning the site and re-writing the blog application which powers it — I kept feeling the urge to spin off various bits of functionality into their own generic, standalone applications. Now I’m finally putting all that work to good use, and does it ever feel good.
Oh, and in the middle of all that I also got to take a crash course in Solaris system administration and learn my way around my shiny new server. It turned out to be a lot less painful than I’d expected, but this is the first time in years that I’ve had to be my own sysadmin and I wanted to take my time and get it right.
Add all that together, supply only the occasional night or weekend with a few hours to work on it, and… well, Hofstadter’s Law starts to rear its ugly head.
But it’s done, and I’m officially back in the land of the bloggers. For the past two months I maintained a policy of refusing to publish anything until I’d completed my rewrite, redesign and migration, so I’ve got a huge backlog of things to finish writing about in the very near future. Also expect to see a few things continue to change around the site; right now it’s at the stage of “good enough”, but there’s still a lot I want to do.
Stay tuned.
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September 3, 2007
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Yah, I can see it! Congratulations!
Actually, I was walking around this site and wondering what the heck is going on. I think that It was a bad time, wasn’t it?
Btw, the theme seems to be djangoed also. It gives you the sense of the django official site…
September 3, 2007
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I’ve come to the conclusion that:
This seems to have happened somewhat spontaneously, and I don’t know why it ended up that way, but i like it.
September 3, 2007
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Nice work, man. I gotta say, I crnge a little at the idea that there might be a Django “look,” though. Yikes.
:)
September 3, 2007
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Jeff: not only are there some fairly common elements to the design of Django-based sites, you helped create some of them ;)
September 3, 2007
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Dammit. I didn’t do it on purpose!
September 3, 2007
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I must say that this redesign is much easier on the eyes - love the clean look. Looking forward to hearing about the your last two months. I must point out that FreeBSD is better than Solaris ;)
September 3, 2007
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Congrats on the relaunch - sounds like I’m not the only one having a hard time getting personal projects finished because Django makes it so easy to start new projects, and they have this habit of building up bit by bit…
I tend to end up more with Lucida Grande as I shamelessly copy from the
django.contrib.adminCSS instead of making my own design decisions when I’m faced with a blank stylesheet in the initial templating stages - needless to say, my purchased-with-best-intentions copy of The Non-Designer’s Design Book has some dust on it at the moment ;-)September 3, 2007
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Great job! I like it.
September 3, 2007
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Nicely done!
September 3, 2007
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I did the same with my personal blog recently (moved from Mephisto to my own custom Django app), but on Media Temple’s (dv) setup.
It rocks :)
I’ve talked a bit about my setup on the slice “here”:http://sector42.org/blog/2007/8/28/the-technology-behind-this-site/, I’d be interested in what your deployment platform looks like.
September 3, 2007
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Argh, wrong permalink, sorry !
This is the correct link to my deployment setup.
Feel free to steal my comment-preview code :)
September 4, 2007
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Looks good, agree with your Rails/Django look assessment.
September 4, 2007
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Very nice! Congratulations on the new home ;)
September 4, 2007
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Glad to see the new site up. Looks great. I’m going to be diving into your comment utils later in the week as I get my new site ready for showtime, too
September 4, 2007
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Ryan: you’ll want to do an
svn upof comment_utils; I’ve brought it up to date with trunk so that the spam filtering can deal with Unicode (the Python Akismet module had some issues with that, so I’ve worked around them in the code which calls it).September 6, 2007
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Looking good! Glad to finally see some new content here ;)