Once again it has become time to refresh the site design. Looking back, it appears the last site refresh was in July of 2007—I’m not sure if 5 years on the same design demonstrates longevity and consistency, or if it just means I’m horribly overdue.
Regardless, now everything is nice and shiny. One of the goals of the new design was to do my best to leverage HTML5 and CSS3, including new HTML5 tags and use of many of the newer CSS features. As a consequence, the only image file is the background. Everything else is CSS effects along with a couple CSS fonts.
I also used the refresh as an excuse to experiment with responsive design. I haven’t had a chance to test a wide array of small-screen devices yet, but on the ones I have access to (various iDevices), the site is usable. I’d love to hear your experience, good or bad, on any kind of smaller-screen device.
Other changes include numerous updates to the software stack (Rails 3.2, etc.), better syntax highlighting (now with line numbers!), and improved (in theory) spam filtering.
It’s clearly time that I catch up with the world around me. It’s curious how much can pass you by while you’re consumed with other priorities. Now that some of those have passed, I’m rediscovering several things that got pushed aside.
Among them is hopefully writing at least a little more often here. Apparently, that won’t be a difficult bar to jump over—it’s been 2 1/2 years since my last post. Ack!
Apart from writing here, the process of catching up looks like it will include a bunch of software upgrades (Rails 3 a part of that), a new design for here, and migrating a bunch of stuff to git.
the site has a new look today. it also has a new backend to power the whole thing. the last one turned out to be a temporary endeavor as it was my first attempt at a rails application. given some of the newb mistakes i made, it made more sense to start over. so i did.
the design is hopefully less wearying to the eye. there’s still more work to do on that, however.
lastly, i hope to begin to post a bit more often now that this is in place. this will be home to primarily technical discussions/writings.