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Blast from the past

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

I’m not entierly sure why i was looking at my old uni user space last night at godawful times of the morning, but i decided to update its front page to point to warmfusion.co.uk. To do that i logged in via Webdav (well.. i used NetDrive to map it to a drive letter) and i found all sorts of cool stuff.

Warmfusion along the ages
Warmfusion Original
The user site is the original edition of my new alias of warmfusion created back in early 04. Sitting on the floor of my grans house at Xmas designing a new madtaj website i decided to scrap the name for something new and easier to spell. After much thinking warmfusion

Top class geekery

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

I updated the Notices page on Planet Comscare with news that i was thinking of making a noo theme, I couldnt help myself and added a few sneaky features already. You may have noticed the little + next to the titles of each post, its the beginning of a cookie based system of showing/hiding all posts from users or wotever so you only see posts from people u want to (ie, not urself as u know what uve written).
The other less noticable feature is the navigation bar has been upgraded so you can place stuff where you want it, again this isnt complete as i dont actually store your prefered layouts etc but after half hour work

Ruby off the Rails

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Despite the uncategorical devotion of people like Mike and Croxy to this language framework called Ruby on Rails I am still a skeptic. Sure, its nice to be a lazy programmer and create a blog in 15 minutes, but do you know how it WORKS. if you get the darknexus classic error of “APPLICATION ERROR” does that really help you find out what you’ve done wrong or if its even a flaw in the overall framework. I have many critisisms of principles Rails but as i freely admit, i have not tried the language out itself as of yet. What with projects and web-dragon work not to mention a certain lady i havnt had the