Caturday's Back!
September 03, 2008

Hooray, problem has been resolved. I can now go back to bed and sleep much better. Enjoy perusing more cats. I've got the first and latest functionality in there and working, tomorrow I'll add in display of which cat of how many you're on. :) I'm kind of worried though, my bandwidth usage for that host is already up to 60Mb and the site has barely been back up for 24hours. heh. I'll be needing to get advertising back in there soon. ;p

Caturday Oops
September 03, 2008

Oops, I made a breaking database change up on Joyent's servers right as my Internet connection crapped out and now fork is acting all the way over there. So, Caturday's down right now. :(

Labor Day Sale: Free Caturday!
September 02, 2008

This was indeed a good labor day. I spent most of the day mucking about on my computer with various coding things, doing this and that. This. and. That. Oh right, I rewrote my caturday page from scratch for fun today and... what's that? Oh look... Cats.phantomdata.com is already back up for perusal. Not quite as many cats yet, they will get added automatically in short order. Enjoy!

Just like my Twitter comment says, I definitely enjoyed my day of Rails programming again. After all this ASP.NET stuff, its nice to get back to a more modern web-oriented framework with things like ORM, sane routing, database management (migrations really are sexy), out of the box sandboxing (including database) and unobtrusive semantic compliance. Did I mention just how lovely Ruby is to work with? I'm also very pleased with the new'ish RESTful routing that comes with Ruby on Rails 2.0 and got some very nice URI structure going on. Want cat 27 as a raw image? Sure, just call /cats/27.image. Want it for display? Easy, just call it with a standard GET request. RSS will be coming soon too so you can just call /cats.rss.

I'm definitely looking forward to getting to do more Rails work in short order. I've got a couple new app ideas that have been floating around, and will definitely be happy to see coming to fruition

More new kitties have been added to respond to demand..

Caturday Is On Rails!
May 19, 2007

Well, spirited by the success and ease of the Mongrel deployment - I decided to go full tilt. The joys of Summer has allowed me to finally rewrite my Caturday page in Ruby on Rails! This is quite a joy, because I can finally work on easily adding in new features.

What's new? There's currently a tag stub that'll be put in short order to aid in recollecting cats. You can also finally bookmark the cats, since I go based off of filename rather than straight ID now. Oh, and of course I did some design tweaking. ENJOY!

Phantomdata.com, Now on Mongrel!
May 19, 2007

Well, I finally got off my ass and switched this site over to the apperently-now-standard Mongrel backend. Lighttpd is now feeding into Mongrel instead of the old Fast-CGI backend. Now I can enjoy the luxuries of an up to date scalable backend architecture.

The joys.

Emergency Maintenance
August 09, 2006

So, the guys at Riding on Rails are advising about a critical vulnerability in Ruby on Rails less than 1.1.5. They've released a security fix for it today, and I'm in the process of applying it across the board. Just a heads up for everyone!

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