Jeff

Alright, I have just finished up the first working version of the administrative side rewrite for my webpage (I am going to disable it after this as there is no security yikes). This has been a project for me the past few weeks as I have used it as a chance to really test the growth I have had with Javascript and programming since the initial writing of this webpage. I have learned a lot about good design and have adopted a number of ideals with version control, software design (this uses a bunch of independent interfaces rather than some messy, hacked together mess), and standards (?). I have a lot more to do (there is no gallery control yet and these posts don’t get tagged) including moving to using markdown for the entry markup rather than my crappy personal one (which means going through and fixing all the old entries that use it). I also want to clean up all the old Django code (which I looked at a few days ago and cringed). I am keeping all this stuff on my github page (the webpage will exist in private for a while as I continue to clean up the security), but I will put two of the modules I wrote for the admin side into public repos, just need to clean out some of the stuff.

I will be moving the backend server to Arch this Friday (I took the day off) so that I can be a bit more active on the server itself (I have become a lot more fluent in Linux since moving to Chicago). I will hopefully write some more now (especially to test some of the new changes). It is getting a bit late right now and I am at a stopping point with all of this working. Maybe I will get a screen shot up of this sometime, or maybe I will move the front facing side to something based on this in the future (this uses ideas I have floated around for a while, I showed Kim, I think she finds it snazzy :P). I have written this post 3 times in testing, but this is my favorite version (probably because I know everything works this time).

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I know, I have slacked on updating this for WAY too long. Most of the few (if any) who read this have spoken with me in the past few months. They know why I have postponed (read: slacked) updating this. I am now engaged and living with my fiancee. I went through a job hunt to move up here and then have been working hard at the new job since August. I have turned 25 (a big quarter of a century) and think I am in a pretty good place. I have not had any fast food or soda all year (check one for resolutions) but have pretty much died on working on Dominion. I think the issue with that was the complexity of the various actions of the game. My current project (read: ambition) is to rewrite the administrative side of this website and overhaul the codebase. I need to put it into version control, something I have talked about but never done. I will probably do that and then begin cleaning up much of the cowboy coded sections of the site. I will probably (hopefully) update this on the progress.

Okay, done with the mind dump. This will probably not be the last entry for another 6 months, so hopefully you return to read more. If not, shrug.

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So this is going to be a large mass of info vomit. I have kind of neglected updating this for a while (almost 3 months in fact) so this is a long time coming. My one excuse for this delay is I was moving this site and my dad’s over to a VPS that hopefully gives better performance for loading stuff and I don’t have to depend on a less than dependable home ISP to host the stuff. So this should be getting read from my VPS, I need to update my dad’s site there before pointing his DNS to it still…

Kim graduates in the next few weeks. We get to live together pretty much from then on, which will be nice. The first time we really get to be around each other without constant chaos and stress (school and long distance). It will be nice tasting the future and getting used to it. She got a job so she will get to stay in the US, even though there is still a bunch to figure out in terms of visas for stuff, but that is all a nice hurdle to have to overcome. Hopefully everything works out great in these next few months :).

I realized that I am over a year behind in posting images to this site. I also realized just how crappy the UI design of the gallery is. I will probably find some time in the next few weeks to overhaul that. But that will come after I have revamped my desktop. I have wanted to move to XMonad for a while, but due to some technical hurdles (the nVidia XOrg drivers don’t support Xinerama easily, meaning I lose two monitors) I have been slow to make the change. I am going to try and spend some time soon trying to get past that and dive into a more productive system. Then I shall try and draw up a not sucky UI and set that up and then migrate over the images from Japan, Frisbee, and the other random ones I have.

I should probably write a follow up when I have a better organization of my thoughts. Sorry about this sudden and messy pile of info being vomited onto your browser…

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