Today was mostly focused on setting up a clone of the client’s site, setting up ecommerce and a new theme on it, making the theme responsive, and fixing some issues with the styles and content.
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GiveCamp 2017 day 1
Day 1 of GiveCamp done. Really hot. The air conditioning was out in the airport and it really heated up in there.
My project this year is for the International Women’s Air & Space Museum. The minimum project was pretty easy and we’re basically done with it already.
Continue reading post "GiveCamp 2017 day 1"Throwing a simple message on my site for net neutrality day: “Support net neutrality“
StirTrek 2017
Got back from StirTrek at around 11:45PM after leaving at 5:45AM. Only got 4 hours of sleep and managed it fairly well.
Continue reading post "StirTrek 2017"Last year, I wasn’t able to go to Stir Trek because it sold out well before I got home from work. This year, I didn’t catch the announcement and was still able to get a ticket. There were over 100 left.
Continue reading post "#1417"Dreamhost 200 status log conclusion
I decided to contact Dreamhost about my Apache logs showing 200 statuse codes for all mod_rewrite responses. It took seven back-and-forths to get across what was happening, discuss options, and conclude that “DreamHost systems are configured with a default environment meant to meet the most common webapp and customer requirements”.
Dreamhost, mod_rewrite, and logged status codes
I’ve done some more testing on the problem I mentioned before of all requests showing up as 200‘s in the Apache log on my Dreamhost shared server. I’m pretty sure it’s specific to their mod_rewrite module.
Hey fellow website makers: If you meta refresh to a generic JS message URL for your noscript users, they will see the same message, not your article, if they enable JS. They will then have to go back to the original link again, if they’re willing to put that much effort in to seeing your article. See this great ohio.com article for an example (now archived). That page variable might make you think, if they had a proper value, it’d take you to the proper page when JS is enabled, but no, there’s no JS on the page at all. Also, who is ‘Burlington Hawkeye’?
10k Apart: Notable Mention
Awesome: The 10k Apart voting is done and my entry ended up as one of 12 “Notable Mentions”, the third / lowest level of prize.
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The 10k apart contest closed last Friday. I got in a few updates to my entry the last day.
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