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It's been a few weeks since I really had chance to work on anything for the website. Which is not to say that I have given up with it, just that I have been somewhat busy with other bits and pieces in my life. What I haven't been able to avoid though is the sight of how messy the comments sections now looks.
Unlike the 71 articles that have come before this one, this is the first that has required no manual intervention in the database in order to publish it. In short, I have finished the core development work on CallamMcMillan.com version 6 after a development effort of nearly a year.
While there is still plenty more to do, I can at least see the light at the end of the tunnel and can now focus more on producing new content for it rather than coding the functionality this website needs.
From time to time I get asked about making a website for somebody's business, usually along with "my [Insert relative or friend here] is doing it for £40." In this article I explain why this isn't actually the case, why buying cheap doesn't work when it comes to websites and what to expect from a web design project.
The .htaccess file allows for directory-level configuration on Unix based web servers. You may use the .htaccess file on a website for authorisation and authentication, or for URL rewriting (changing mywebsite.com/fruit/bananas to mywebsite.com/fruit.php?fruit=bananas.) This feature allows the mechanics of your website to be hidden from the user and allows search engines to index your content more efficiently.
As with most configuration files, it becomes necessary to comment out lines and add comments to assist with maintaining the file.
To do this you need to add a hash (#) symbol at the start of each line.
Simples!
Picture this, you've completed 3 years of university delivering a dissertation, a team project and some compulsory management modules, by now you and everyone in your team should surely know how to manage effectively right? Nope. I've just completed a team project so badly managed that I actually dreamt about having a new manager coming in and saving us all, here's how it happened.
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In a little over seven months CallamMcMillan.com has published 50 articles on a wide range of topics, ranging from the technical - Cisco discussions and the like, to the bizarre, such as the terminally stupid, via everything in between. Unlike some of the articles which made the previous version of my website, I have tried to make these more considered and more on a single topic! So for the 50th article I thought I'd do a summary of my latest changes and take a look at where the site will go next.
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When they announced the launch date of the Raspberry Pi, I kind of knew that it would never ship on time, no matter how much I wanted to believe it. Anyway, due to a manufacturing problem, it looks like we'll be getting our juicy boards towards the end of this month. So when I do finally get one, what shall I do with it?
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After my rant the other day about the state of Taiwanese politics, I thought I would lighten the mood with a technical article on how this website now does timestamp management, something which may be useful should you be looking to build a blogging system of your own, or any other sort of time indexed system.
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After a several week break while I settled into my new job, I have finally got back to working on my website. The upshot of this is that the main part of the blogs are now operational in that I can post entries into all four blogs and they can be read and filtered.
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