- I'm not going to lie. I was a little nervous late last night at the office... http://t.co/2tCF6RDy
I’m pleased to announce a new design for this website. In fact, this is the first entirely new design I have made for my personal use in a long, long time.
When working on this redesign, it hit me that I love cars, live in the Motor City (well, in the metro…), have a lifetime subscription to Road & Track, and yet never have included automotive themes in my work. Well, let’s put a stop to that.
I also wanted to do something technically challenging, yet keep a very clean, simple look. I think I hit that. Although, there are a few things I still want to do and maybe a few tweaks here and there to make over time. I am especially in love with the very bottom of the page, taking a different spin on popular footer ideas. The performance on IE 9 isn’t quite what I’d hoped it would be, I’ve been thinking about turning off the side shadows for it. But I’ve long given up on making things perfect for that browser. Suck it IE.
Our first piece of new artwork arrived the other day at the new Brilliant Chemistry office. It’s a layered birch cutout with oil paint for color. Totally awesome. Check out the artist: Mitch McGee.
You have to see it from the side to really appreciate it.
Bonus points if you notice the abnormal placement of key electrical components…
As we are preparing to move into our new office, I’m looking at what my ideal bar would be stocked with. The most welcoming would contain a wide variety of “flavors.” After all, we must make sure visitors of all tastes are satisfied. So here is my first run at it:
I’m primarily a Scotch and Tequila kinda guy. Everything else is there for the visitors. What would you add?
Flowz just launched a handy app for checking the wait times at nearby border crossings. It’s puurty.
Oh yeah, and it’s free.
Kaleidoscope is a beautiful, relatively new text and image comparison tool for Mac OS X.
When I say beautiful, I mean it has to be the most spectacular, mouth watering application I use in my development workflow.
But it has its problems. <Read on…>
I’ve been a Comcast subscriber since 2001. I have had Comcast at my current residence for almost 4 years, since we moved in. This December, I switched from Comcast to DirecTV. The reasons why are many. <Read on…>
Damnit, this one catches me every time. I setup new cloudserver instances so infrequently that it never hits muscle memory. Open up that damn firewall port 80!
Edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Add the following line
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Save and restart iptables.
service iptables restart
I’m not sure if it is CentOS or Rackspace that is locking down the instances. I do know that I don’t have to do this for my local CentOS machines.
Am I the only one that despises the new request mapping in Spring 3?
Why has everyone gone GaGa over spreading out the URL mappings across dozens, if not hundreds, of files? This is a step BACKWARD people!
There was something extremely convenient about having one place to keep track of all of your URL mappings. Hello Grails, you fantastic crispy UrlMapping.groovy, you!
My love affair with Spring is certainly in the twilight stages.
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