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Well, this site has been transfered to the new server. But right now we are still seeing the old site. I don't know enough about the strange magic that is the DNS system, so I can't say exactly when the switch will take place (or, I mean, it's already taken place, but I can't say when it will go into effect.) Weird.
Anything posted from a few hours ago forward (until the switch takes effect) will have to be moved later by hand. So you should be skeptical of that. In other words, if you're about to post your masterpiece, maybe hold off until tomorrow.
Hmmm. We might be getting an addition to the family today.
Excellent! David McCusker is going to work for Mitch Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation. This makes me happy in numerous ways. I can't wait to see what they build.
Today is my first day as an OSAF engineer, and my mission is to write world class software that revolutionizes the way data is stored and accessed by computer programs. So I'll be doing a lot of work on the Chandler storage system and future OSAF apps in pursuit of this goal. I'm quite excited by this new position and happy to join the project.
Congratulations David! Good luck.
My mobile data is back on. Going through the back log now. Sorry if I missed anyone yesterday.
This site should be going off the air temporarily today. We'll see you all tomorrow from our new location.
My mobile has had a voice connection all day (at least I think so, I haven't talked to anyone,) but no data. Bummer. So if you're sending to that address I'm not ignoring you. I'll get anything sent when the network comes back up, or resend to a different address.
What the heck is going on lately? I've been seriously productive. Lots of new features coming on line. Sure, most are small, but I've added them all in the past few weeks and they've been on the to do list for years. I guess it's something like momentum. Once you start knocking stuff off the list you see that it's really not so hard. And it feels good. So you just keep rolling. And since I'm not hitting any major hurdles I seem to be building speed.
Nice while it lasts. Ten days to vacation.
Looks like Thursday will be the down day due to the server migration.
I have the bulletin board view working now, as well as the xml feed. The later is a crazy maze of political infighting. I'm just a novice, so I can't even say what type of xml it actually is that I am employing. What I can say is that it works when you look at it in NetNewsWire lite. Still, there is so much bickering about how this type of thing should be formatted, that it may well be the case that someone could claim my implementation is broken. Whatever. I'm happy to learn as I go.
My format comes from copying the structure of Aaron Swartz's feed. But is this RSS? RDF? WTF? I guess people are still working these things out. I'm just happy it's at least basically functioning.
I'll point to it after the server switch.
[update: OK, I guess it's RDF, although it may be RSS also (that is, RDF is one way to encode RSS.) Is that right?]
Of course now that I've commited to the server move, this one has been amazingly fast (from my perspective at least.) This is in comparison to the very slow speeds I had been seeing for the last few weeks. Oh well. I'll be curious to see how the new server does. It's actually a less powerful machine, but under orders of magnitude less load. I'm figuring it will be an improvement, but if it's only as fast as this one is right now I'll be happy.
The new server is up. If everything goes correctly this domain will be transfered tomorrow. This might mean (well, ok, probably mean) the site will be unreachable for up to 24 hours. I'll post again when I'm more sure, but it looks like tomorrow will be the day.
Great Alex Wilson piece on Veteran's Day.