Scott Gruby’s Blog

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 for me to get it running again. I learned a great deal in the 2+ [...]

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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 a browser and after much searching, I figured out how pages that obviously didn’t exist [...]

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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, do their best to create good products.
Karelia has made things (financial) right with me and [...]

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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.
The first bug (which their support guy has reported with my test site) is that I [...]

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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 onto the libssh2 library. Like most UNIX libraries, libssh2 uses UNIX socket calls such as [...]

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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. After spending a large part of today looking at the framework, I managed to fix [...]

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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 created by RapidWeaver (which I’ve used for about 1.5 years). I spent about half a [...]

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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, we got my wife a new car with a built-in XM receiver and she enjoyed [...]

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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 (the $84 for the electronic download is already extortion). I got to the checkout page [...]

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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 restore what was on the server as I have a week’s worth of archives of [...]

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