My wife Cindil just returned from Guinea, where she was working to help create and implement Ebola response policy. Though she did not knowingly come into contact with anyone who had Ebola, she nonetheless needs to monitor her health for 21 days- the maximum incubation period for Ebola. This is some of the educational material they gave her at the airport. Can’t blame them for being thorough!
I am now my own server admin. Cool!
This weekend I took the plunge and set up my own VPS on Linode. The thing that drove me to finally ditch my GoDaddy shared hosting was Git. Git was one of the first tools I was introduced to as a developer at PhotoShelter, and it has completely changed my expectations for a testing environment- not to mention saved my ass more than once. I needed a server of my own where I was free to install the tools I wanted.
Oh hey, look at that. My website now has its own SSL certificate. In fact, I’m routing all of my main site’s traffic to HTTPS.
Note that the blog isn’t protected by the SSL… I can’t afford to pony up for a wildcard cert just yet.
What preempted this? Development on my latest project, EveryMark (working title). EveryMark is a lightweight bookmarking app. It’s an easy way to store and access bookmarks across many devices without needing to login. It’s something I’m designing to meet a personal need, so it isn’t clear yet how useful this might be to someone else. In the end though I do plan on packaging it up in a way that it can be distributed to others.
If you’ve visited a website that uses car data, like Kelley Blue Book or any number of parts sites, you’ll notice that they tend to rely on a series of menus to help you find the car you’re looking for. At the very least they’ll have menus for the year, make, and model of the car.
I wondered if it would be possible to create something like this on a manually customized PhotoShelter site. There are some PhotoShelter members that focus on automotive stock photography, and it seems like it would be a handy way for clients to find images of a specific car- as opposed to using the traditional search bar.
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