Monthly Archives: June 2007

Yet another new store

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Scott Gruby

I wasn’t quite happy with my online store and was pleased to see a clean, open source store released. Andy Kim of Potion Factory released his store as open source. It’s Ruby on Rails, so it was a learning experience … Continue reading →

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Apache MultiViews option is dangerous

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Scott Gruby

I was poking through my web logs and saw requests to pages that didn’t exist on my server and the server returned something (200 return code), so I started looking at them. I was able to hit the pages with … Continue reading →

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Doing the right thing

Posted on June 21, 2007 by Scott Gruby

My previous rants about Sandvox may have been harsh, but as I mentioned before, I see so much promise in it and the sites it creates. I want to offer an apology to the authors; they, like all software developers, … Continue reading →

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Another Sandvox bug

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Scott Gruby

So this is my week to beat on Sandvox. I think the product has great potential, but still needs some work to do a basic website (my website isn’t all that complicated). Yes, I am reporting the bugs I find. … Continue reading →

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New website uploaded!

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Scott Gruby

After many days of fighting Sandvox and its underlying Connection Kit framework, I’ve managed to upload my website. All my uploading problems stem from Connection Kit’s poor implementation of SFTP. What basically happened is that the SFTP implementation was bolted … Continue reading →

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Sandvox partially fixed

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Scott Gruby

I discovered that Sandvox uses a framework called Connection Kit for uploading files. I downloaded the framework (it’s open source) and found that it had the same problem as Sandvox which lead me to believe that the framework is broken. … Continue reading →

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Unimpressive software

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Scott Gruby

Last week, Sandvox was a runner up in Apple’s Design Awards, so I decided to take a look at it to re-create my website. I really like the look of the websites; they look more professional than the basic one’s … Continue reading →

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Dumped Sirius!

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Scott Gruby

Today we finally dumped Sirius radio! We got it as a gift from my in-laws a few years back and they’ve been paying the fee since then which was fine, however, we got real annoyed at the DJs. In January, … Continue reading →

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Sales tax on downloads

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Scott Gruby

Today I went to purchase the professional pictures that were taken of me at the marathon last week and one of the options was electronic download as opposed to CD. This wasn’t offered last year and would save me $16 … Continue reading →

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You can never have too many backups!

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Scott Gruby

Yesterday I went to open up my website that I created in RapidWeaver and found that my site was all screwed up; I didn’t realize this until after I exported it to my server. Luckily, I was able to quickly … Continue reading →

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