shell blogs

Everyone knows the value of improving your workflow. Well it turns out I work a whole lot faster on a Mac, both in web development and web design. I think the OSX developers must have thought a great deal about workflow, because Mac has a lot of great features: from much more drag-and-drop integration between programs than windows, to little things like the mouse command to fly out all windows or show the desktop (this saves me so much time). But workflow on a Mac goes much deeper than these features. Web development is great on a Mac, since the programs you need for coding run very quickly and the terminal is really handy for doing lots ... (more...)

Ok it's time to come clean...when I first started this website I signed up for hosting thru godaddy.com. Yes yes I know, ugh. Well I'd been too lazy to switch it over (that's how they get you!) until recently, as I have become interested in deploying Drupal®. Well I had Drupal® working fine when I found out that I couldn't clean up the long URLs since godaddy's "shared hosting" has mod_rewrite turned off and, big surprise, they don't allow you any shell access. It was pretty annoying because I had been planning on playing with those files to learn the Apache setup. But it turned out to be good news, since I have now switched my hosting to ... (more...)