Changed up the site a little. More to come, wanna try my hand at making the typography interesting.

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.

I was ignorantly happily letting my gems be pulled in automatically on my previous server using Nginx + Mongrel_Cluster and this seemed to pose no problems.

BUT! when I switched to a new host, I went with an Apache + Passenger (mod_rails) setup and my servers would start but would just offer “Error 500″.

I checked the logs and it seemed that it wasn’t loading RedCloth so I added the following to my environment.rb file and it all worked fine!

photogriffy.net was upgraged to v0.2, this is a pretty major update. I’ve changed the backend to be based entirely on the Flickr API. I was able to crank it all out with rails and the flickraw gem over the course of a few hours. There are still a lot of features I want to add and a bunch of formatting to do, but the site works as it stands. Rails truly is an amazing prototyping framework.

This is part of a larger update to the way I post my photos to the web. It’s getting a bit scattered with some photos posted to AMDavidson.com, some to AMDavidson.me, some to Flickr, and even a few to Twitpic with very little planning or organization.

So, I’m now working towards putting everything on Flickr and then basing my other websites on that content so the content is unified between the sites and doesn’t require bouncing around the web to places unknown to see it all.

Well, I spent an hour or two last night uploading a couple of plugins and playing with the CSS on the site. It’s amazing what you can do with just wordpress.org and a couple of hours.

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.