haha, yes, i’m taking advantage of a great hosting deal at dreamhost and can now be found at http://www.bunnyhero.org/blog/ . i think the bunnyhero.org domain will be for my personal stuff, in general. i guess. maybe. hmmm. we’ll see, i guess.

see you there!

(UDPATE: the blog is now at http://www.bunnyhero.org/ [no /blog] and it’s now for my dev stuff!)

holy crap navigating moock.org is annoying! it’s a multiuser app: when you click on a menu item, you have to wait for another user visiting the site to “assist you”! what happens is that some other site visitor sees a button appear that says “send user0943534 to <destination>”. only when they click on it do you get sent to where you wanted to go.

i ended up having to open a new browser window to approve my own request just to get anywhere on the site!! wtf. worst use of flash for navigation EVER.

(UPDATE: he seems to have fixed it at some point. thank goodness)

i’m spending some time these days beefing up my PHP and web-app development skills. my background is client-side software development, so the server-side thing is still relatively new to me, and the web model (stateless request/response) has taken me a long time to get used to. mind you i’ve been able to code things in it, but i’ve always felt like i was just hacking things together — i’d never get that satisfying feeling of writing elegant, well-designed code.

meanwhile i’d been hearing a lot about ruby on rails, which looks intriguing, but i’m put off by the excessive, self-aggrandizing hype. also, the more i read about it, the more i realize how much its value is really about rails (i.e. the framework), as opposed to ruby itself. with that in mind i decided to investigate some of the php-based clones of RoR, including cake. from an educational point of view, it’s been more helpful to look at cake rather than ruby on rails because i only have to learn one thing (the framework) instead of having to learn two things at once (a new language and a new framework).

anyway, with the help of cake, and a lot of online articles about MVC and other design patterns in web apps, i’m starting to feel more comfortable about developing for the web, and how to code things without feeling like i’m just throwing several disparate pages together. i’m still not using any of the available frameworks, but i may after i have mucked around enough on my own.

even though i have a few places i write already. well not that many. mainly just my livejournal, my site’s tech blog and my site’s news page, which isn’t really a blog per se.

what would i write about here? maybe i should keep my development meanderings in a place separate from my website. everything on my website seems as though it should have something to do directly with the activities available on my site. which doesn’t really make sense, considering that the whole site is supposed to be my playground (hence the name), but it’s becoming a bit entrenched in its ways. hmmm

really, the pets part should have its own “brand identity,” a microsite of its own, perhaps without the global bunnyhero labs identity. same with the ecards, once i beef it up a bit.

a site redesign is definitely in order, in any case…

what, another blog for bunnyhero?

actually this is mainly just to get me a wordpress API key for akismet! woohoo!