Hi All!
It has been well over 3 years since my last post. I was doing alright with my 1 post a week rule up until the summer of 2012 when I guess I just gave up. It probably didn’t help that I started including tweets in my blog at some point. I felt like tweeting was a cheap and easy way to add content to the site, but it probably just made me lazy.
I decided recently that I needed to revive this thing, freshen up the look, and to give it some cool features to display what I can do and what I’m all about. So over the next little while, ontop of making regular posts, I’ll be adding some interactive features into this blog that you hopefully can’t find anywhere else, just to distinguish myself a little.
Other than the colour scheme change, and the jQuery type-along header, I’ve made some changes under the hood. The page was designed for mobile first, so if you inspect the source you’ll see some css media queries in there. I converted the MySQL database to MongoDB and it is hosted with mLab (formerly MongoLab). My website is hosted on a Linode virtual server (click that link to use my referral code should you decide to use them), and the website is written, as it always has been, in PHP. I’ll be re-working my editing tools in AngularJS, and I’ll probably do the same for the homepage at some point. I also implemented tagging and better permalink urls for individual blog posts based on the title (click a post title and then look at the URL to see what I mean).
Feature wise, I’m currently working on including my Instagram posts into the feed in some creative way. And I’ll be doing the same with my Twitter posts again as well.
This is probably a good start for now. I’ll do my best to keep on myself to regularly update the site, both with posts and features. I’m working on a lot of different projects at the moment, so I should have plenty of content to keep this place alive.
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