Operation redesign - a secret behind the scenes project after the big crash of November 2004 - has been completed. As a visible result some of the pages now look somewhat different, but there’s more. The core foundation in the new design is ”NetFactory Tree” a home-brewed, not too fancy but pretty damn efficient site engine, which manages the design (sort of). It’s a fun mixture of database hierarchies, Smarty templates and other magic stuff – which almost work.
Yes I do. It’s been some months since I decided to go for a Mac, but my home office is power by a hardware monster from Cupertino - a PowerMac with to G5 cpus. I do belive I made new record from “computer in box” to the “computer fully patched and ready” – less than 2 hours (Windows XP average: 10+ hours). I probably still need a few tools and applications to be fully operational, but so far it just rocks. Mac – Go get it.
If you noticed a small disruption of the service on the site, don’t panic. I’ve switched to a new server with more power. All things should be running smoothly thanks to the Linux God who manage the server.
I’ve been toying slightly with the design recently, and I just noticed today that it’s pretty obvious that almost any browsing I do happens in Firefox. The site (well top menu anyway) looks awful in Internet Explorer – auch. Better fix that some time in 2005.
So I thought I did a decent job of cleaning up and recovering the site after the evil crash a few months ago. Browsing through the 404 (file-not-found) logs sadly tells a different story. Damn. I was hoping to be fully recovered by New Years Eve. That’s probably a little too ambitious.