I hate Internet Explorer, especially older versions. Getting CSS to work properly with IE is painful. However, I’m happy to say that I just finished stomping out a few KeenerTech CSS glitches that affected ONLY IE, but worked in every other browser in existence.
Nick Sieger’s Rails/Java Video
While I functioned as the producer and driving force behind RubyNation’s video production effort, I had only limited editing experiencer with Final Cut Pro. Nick Sieger’s video on “Rails: The Killer Java Web Stack,” is the first conference video that I was 100% responsible for from beginning to end.
KeenerTech on Facebook
KeenerTech.com now has a Facebook presence. Follow us on Facebook now.
Earthquake Hits DC Area
I felt my first earthquake this morning — like a freight train rumbling past my house just outside. It was a minor quake, just 3.6 on the Richter scale.
KeenerTech Hits a New High
Site traffic for this blog hit a new high in June with more than 11,000 page views. I’m very pleased with the steady growth in traffic.
KeenerTech Changes
Inspired by RailsConf 2010, I’ve updated the site to support comments on all of the articles. I’ve also added a modest little Gallery page and a bunch of tweaks and minor re-factors.
KeenerTech Crosses Milestone
KeenerTech.com just recently crossed an important milestone. I implemented Google’s AdSense program in December 2009. The site is getting enough traffic now, and has Google ads sufficiently integrated into the site, that KeenerTech.com is now self-sustaining. That is, the site earns at least enough through advertising to pay for its hosting costs. As a by-product, it also covers the hosting costs of the other sites that I host for various people.
KeenerTech.com Upgraded!
KeenerTech.com has been upgraded from Rails 2.2.2 to Rails 2.3.5. Even better, the site is now hosted using Phusion Passenger and Nginx, for faster performance than ever before. As a bonus, we’ve even upgraded to the latest version of the ActiveScaffold plugin.
Yes, My Yahoo Account Got Attacked
My Yahoo account got hacked. Joy. I’ve used Yahoo for about 10 years now to manage my various email accounts, and was not pleased at this development. Yes, I’m also aware that all my contacts got spammed.
Article View Counts
I just added view counts for all of the articles on the web site, and this count is now displayed for all articles that have over a 100 page views (which is most of them generally, except the newest ones). The hardest part was collating the data (which goes back to 2005 and comes from several different sources) and getting it ported into the database. So this is how I occupy myself during the Blizzard of ’09.