Guide to pants off living
August 2005
Content Stripped Bare
Monday, 22 August 2005
Andrew Boardman and (via) Dave Shea have pondered design this morning, and both provide an insight into the purpose and future of design when the content that it frames is being aggregated into a myriad of other viewers and channels.
Make sure you check these articles out.
Posted by travo at 10:16:00 AM
Pulling a Calf
Tuesday, 16 August 2005
I've been a web developer now for years. While not as long as some, long enough to have had my fair share of problems with deployment. Fortunately, for the last few years I've been developing websites which are hosted on Web Central production servers.
Today, I'm deploying a new website. In this case, 'deploying' is a sophisticated term for essentially what is the most suckiest of jobs - FTP'ing a whole bunch of new pages and asp scripts to a live site...and desperately hoping that nothing goes wrong.
This, as my learned and experienced friends will rightly tell me, sucks. But there is little that I can do about it. My development environment is probably very different, from my live environment; I can't tell - I'm not the admistrator of that server. Can't go near it.
And as has happened today, things are very different, a problem with the way my session variables are being handled has revealed itself and there's nothing I can do about it but call Web Central.
God bless 'em. They've really streamlined and improved their customer service heaps since the early days. I'm grateful to receive considerate, thoughtful and expedient assistance when things go strangely, like today.
So what's the subject of this post got to do with it? - Well, releasing a website can be a little like giving birth, sometimes it's easy and that little puppy will just pop out and shoot across the room like a mechanical tennis ball server. Occasionally, it can go pear shaped and you'll spend an afternoon, buried up to your armpits in the metaphorical cows uterus that is your work trying to get that damn website up.
Fun. You bet.
Posted by travo at 4:41:02 PM | Comments (1)
My Friend Flickr
Monday, 15 August 2005
So happy. Didn't have to code a single line and now I have a moblog, you can cruise online and check out either my random snaps from my phone or the whole 'shebang.
Stay tuned for my upcoming trip to Hong Kong and China. I've sussed out the whole global roaming thing and both the Hong Kong and Chinese communications carriers support GPRS - so I'm hoping that I can post the occasional snap taken from my phone while overseas.
Joy!
Posted by travo at 8:57:38 AM
Lanceinated
Friday, 05 August 2005
Kudos to Jon and Sue. You guys are an inspiration!
Posted by travo at 8:44:57 AM
Gettin' my Lance on.
Tuesday, 02 August 2005
I'm now into week four of riding my bike to work. Thankfully Melbourne has been kind, giving us one of the driest Winters for some years. This morning was no exception, sunny warm and clear. Sweet.
There is heaps to love about riding to work; feeling fresh and clear headed when you arrive, living in expectation of droppin' a few extra kg's, checkin' out the girls runnin' around Prinny Park.
There are also a few things not to love; cars, trucks and morons in urban assult vehicles. Still, one of my fondest memories whilst riding home from St. Kilda to Hawthorn was seeing a woman with platinum blonde hair, draped in gold jewelery in a massive black Range Rover, obviously obscenely wealthy, getting booked by the police for a driving offence. She was crying her eyes out. Fantastic.
Have a great day.
Posted by travo at 8:50:20 AM | Comments (1)