2010 – For everyone
With only two months to the end of the year it might seem somewhat premature for my annual year in review, however the last twelve months have been something of a whirlwind. As with any year, here have been both successes and failures. There have been bridges burnt, friends lost, but there have also been [...]
Slight holdup
Slight problem. The long overdue “dot com” side of my website has hit another snag. Initially I was very happy with the final design and layout thanks to some assistance in design from @staceyjenkins (a local designer) however two things have troubled me. The current ‘proposed site’ has zero blogging facility, and while I don’t [...]
Extended Server Maintenance Tonight
From around 6PM GMT tonight the server will experience extended downtime for a number of hours whilst I re-image the server from Debian, to CentOS. I’m doing this for a number of reasons, but it’s mainly to increase security and stability and make up for some of Debians shortcomings! Sorry about the inconvenience
Site Downtime
At approximately 11 pm thelongmile.net, cardifftweetups.co.uk, apptacious.com and casimireffectfilm.com all hosted on this server went down. The server experienced a catastrophic failure which was caused by a bad command in the system scripts. The system has now been restored with the help of the folks at linode.com and the server is performing normally. I apologise [...]
Interesting Times
I write this blog post with great angst in my soul, and a desperate realisation that I no longer come bounding into the office to write my blog posts, nor do I feel energised and creative every waking moment so that I can come up with an interesting blog post for you all to muse [...]
About:
I’m going to start expanding this blog to include my thoughts and impressions on different products programs and services, at the end of the day, reading a personal diary and rants is all very well and interesting but it doesent provide you with usefull information. So I’be made the decision that since I work in [...]
I’ve made some decisions
Ok, So I’ve been thinking and AGAIN I have changed my mind on something. When I redesigned this site, I wanted it to be a combination of my blog, and my photography portfolio, but I find I am taking so many pictures now that I need to refocus those efforts. Not only that but people [...]
Server Move
I’ve finally gotten hold of a linode, and updated the system, I’m in the process of building the server now, and will eventually have to move the site. It’s coming soon, for a faster more powerful server and better site. Stay tuned
Money
Just a quick note for all my visitors about the recent additions to the site. Those of you who visit regularly will know that I have always been very much against adverts. However with the more… “Commercial” nature of having CardiffTweetups.co.uk (yes it is now a .co.uk domain) adverts are becoming necessary. As a result, [...]
Site progress
As some of you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes that have taken place to the site. First and foremost is the addition of the twitter widget at the bottom right of the page. This is something that has been long missed and I frequently get asked if and when it is [...]
Access & More…
After a few years of waiting, I am now happy to announce that you can now access thelongmile.net through thelongmile.com! At the moment this is simply a redirect but it’s a big thing for me since I’ve been waiting for almost five years! So, there will be a minor rebrand on the premise that this [...]
New Site Layout Now Up
Just a quick note to say the new site template is now up! Hope you all like! Just another note – the twitter widget is broken – i cant seem to change it’s colour so its transparent for some reason, so it’s been disabled, and the gallerys still rely on flash, as I’m still working [...]
Brief update
I’m really sorry that I havnt been moving quicker with this, but my last post was not entirley truthfull. The website still had one major bug within the comments that made them completley unreadable. I am pleased to say that this has now been fixed, although I don’t think I will ever recover from it. [...]
Not Long to go
I’d like to give everyone a very brief update as to exactly what is happening with the site. My Gnatt charts now tell me I am at 81% completion. In fact the entire site is 100% ready to be moved over to this one, however I want to fill out the other 19% which is [...]
Update, and a favour…
Yes, I have a small favour to ask all of you, but more on that in a moment. I wanted to update everyone on the progress of the new site layout. I will also say, I am really glad I made the decision to develop this, as everytime I look at the current site, It [...]
The Face Of The Future
Hello again everyone. This is a somewhat minor update yet one I am more than happy to type out. Two days ago, both myself and Sean Nicholls my PHP consultant, began work on the new site template. Currently we don’t know how long it wil be before the site is relaunched. We had hoped that [...]
Regarding the look, making the feel
Ok so I’ve looked around and found four potential designs that I want to look at for this site, which I will list below, but remember, don’t take them all at face value, each will be edited and customised to my personal tastes and to fit in with the site schemea. Lets start with template [...]
The order of things
The Order Of Things I did a terrible thing. I spent over a month solidly working hard on the redesign of this website, comparing different things, and looking at things I can add in. I consulted and worked closley with Andrew Kennett and Sean Nicholls, the two consultants I had with me when redesigning the [...]
Mobile Gallery Coming Soon…
Despite the initial hickups of the past few days in getting this site up to capacity, I have now begun work on coding, and re-coding certain aspects of this site to try and allow mobile viewers access. In the meantime, someone I know has managed to find something I did not even know this site [...]
Don’t Forget…
Don’t forget, there’s a mobile version of this site available on your iPhone, Android or Blackberry device. All you need to do is go to http://thelongmile.net, leave comments and read posts and more, If you want a little more information click the Read More button…
Fault Finding
It seems I have located the error in the stats system Turns out the stats system is not correctly counting visits, but is correctly counting page views. Wassup was detecting browsers scanning for RSS links which were indicating another hit which was not correct, similarly statpress was counting the correct number of pageviews, but not [...]
Bug Report
After the first 12 hours of the site being live, I wanted to share with you the bugs I have found, hopefully they will be fixed soon, but thankfully it’s all going rather well! Click the Read More Button for more information
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome to the new site, God I’m nervous… Will you all like it? Will you hate it? Will you use the features I’ve been working hard to put in place… I don’t know, but there’s a real heart wrenching story for me, in the fact that I loved the old site, because it was me, It was my design, It was MY site. All of it. And being sat here writing this post a few days before the site goes live… Well I have to say I’m looking at my old site, wishing it could stay, but it just isn’t realistic.
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New Site, Coming Soon
This is an archive post from the old site, Regarding the stats from the survey and some of the things I promised in this version. Click the “Read More…” button to read the full story
