Weekend update
Jan. 13th, 2008 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomSo what’s been going on this week?
I’ve been working 9-10 hour days.
Friday dinner and entertainment: Friday night![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quietchris came into the city and met me for dinner. The plan was dinner with b00jum (who is about to leave for the army) and then see a performance at the New Museum. We were having so much fun at dinner that we missed the performance, but it wasn’t so bad. We walked around the galleries instead.
I’m the worst web developer in the world: My goal for the weekend was to do all the things on the “short list” that were stopping us from going live with the replacement web site for NJLGC. I started working on this replacement in December of 2003. You can see the obvious problem. The other site is all static files, hosted on my personal server. This one is WordPress (all PHP) on a hosting service that only supports FTP. I hate not having SSH access. Ugh. I think I spent most of the day trying to come up with a better way to do backups meanwhile trying to fix some of the HTML problems we were having. I finally got it working, about an hour after I fucked up some files that made me wish I had backups. Ugh. So fucked up. I hate hate hate doing web development and I realize the only reason I have tolerated doing it all these years is that I always did it on my environment, my server, and my tools. Oddly enough, the reason I’ve never been able to pass this kind of work off to others is that I had previously built systems that were perfect for me, impossible to use by anyone else (unless you were a total Unix geek, in which case you’d probably have your own preferred way to do things and would hate my stuff). The goal this time is to set things up as a blog so that other people CAN take over the maintenance.
Juno: Saturday nightquietchris, seasings and I went to see the movie Juno. Loved it. Made me sad for a bit, because it brought up issues about me and a past gf. However, then we went out to dinner (Indian) and ended up back at our place to watch TV. We introduced seasings to Lucy, Daughter of the Devil (Watch the Pilot) (fan site). We then watched A Shot in the Dark (1964) staring Peter Sellers.
More bad webmastering: Sunday was entirely more web work. A lot of time recovering from my own mistakes. However, now I think it will soon be ready to go live. If only we had content.
Notes:
I’ve been working 9-10 hour days.
Friday dinner and entertainment: Friday night
quietchris came into the city and met me for dinner. The plan was dinner with b00jum (who is about to leave for the army) and then see a performance at the New Museum. We were having so much fun at dinner that we missed the performance, but it wasn’t so bad. We walked around the galleries instead.I’m the worst web developer in the world: My goal for the weekend was to do all the things on the “short list” that were stopping us from going live with the replacement web site for NJLGC. I started working on this replacement in December of 2003. You can see the obvious problem. The other site is all static files, hosted on my personal server. This one is WordPress (all PHP) on a hosting service that only supports FTP. I hate not having SSH access. Ugh. I think I spent most of the day trying to come up with a better way to do backups meanwhile trying to fix some of the HTML problems we were having. I finally got it working, about an hour after I fucked up some files that made me wish I had backups. Ugh. So fucked up. I hate hate hate doing web development and I realize the only reason I have tolerated doing it all these years is that I always did it on my environment, my server, and my tools. Oddly enough, the reason I’ve never been able to pass this kind of work off to others is that I had previously built systems that were perfect for me, impossible to use by anyone else (unless you were a total Unix geek, in which case you’d probably have your own preferred way to do things and would hate my stuff). The goal this time is to set things up as a blog so that other people CAN take over the maintenance.
Juno: Saturday night
quietchris, seasings and I went to see the movie Juno. Loved it. Made me sad for a bit, because it brought up issues about me and a past gf. However, then we went out to dinner (Indian) and ended up back at our place to watch TV. We introduced seasings to Lucy, Daughter of the Devil (Watch the Pilot) (fan site). We then watched A Shot in the Dark (1964) staring Peter Sellers.More bad webmastering: Sunday was entirely more web work. A lot of time recovering from my own mistakes. However, now I think it will soon be ready to go live. If only we had content.
Notes:
- Lucy, Daughter of the Devil is the best new TV show. Watch the pilot. I’m serious. Jesus comes back and he’s a DJ.
- Juno was lovely. Go see it.
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Date: 2008-01-14 01:09 am (UTC)This gives me backups 'cos I always backup my home Linux machines, and also if I mess up locally I can always pull down the live copy again.
If I can't do local testing then I still maintain the local tree and edit locally and publish.
For backups via FTP.. "wget -r ftp://user:passwd@remote/" should work :-)