I just thought the old design was a little over done, so thanks to the awesome theming capability of WordPress… Here’s a new one.

Old habits die hard, and I write too many of my posts in HTML only to have a missing quotation mark leave my page poorly rendered. I need to rely on the (fairly) excellent built in wordpress wysiwyg editor. At least until I write a proper, custom blog engine for this page…

The affected post has been fixed and you can now go about your business.

That’s all I have to say. Passenger/mod_rails is so much faster and more competent at serving my crappy RoR code than my hacked together mongrel/nginx scheme that I had before.

My ram usage spikes much more when visitors hit the site, but never starts swapping. The increased ram usage is more than worth it for the HUGELY increased speed that I’m seeing by the dynamic mongrel management.

Even better, when the visitors leave (as often happens), the ram usage settles down to the same place it did with my nginx and mongrel combo.

Enjoy the increased speed and stability AMDavidson.com visitors.

The theme is (heavily) based on Oulipo by Mignolo. Maybe someday I’ll do my own custom theme, but for now, this’ll do; I’d rather be working on my other sites.

Nothing against Mephisto, but I’d like to focus my efforts on my other site, and use WordPress for this because it works well, and has a ton of plugin support to get the functionality that I want.

This site has a very simple purpose, in my free time I code my personal site, but that site is becoming more and more of a photoblog and less and less web development content seems relevant there (although I have always kept it to a minimum).

andr3w.net will be my second home on the web with information about my current effort with rails, (x)html, css, js, and whatever else I’m tinkering with at the time.

Check back soon for a restyling from the default Mephisto style and more content as free time allows.