The Infused Solutions site got a much needed makeover this week. I’ve dubbed the theme “Orange Bamboo”. The site is pretty small, so making the change wasn’t difficult, but it took a couple of days to come up with a design that I liked. I think the new look is a little retro because, both the height and width are fixed. Kind of a throwback to all the old flash sites, but without the crappy flash interface.

This is also the first real design work I’ve done on my new Powerbook. When I bought the Powerbook last week, I also picked up a copy of the Adobe Creative Suite (standard). I’ve only really used Photoshop CS so far, but it’s much nicer than Photoshop 7 on my PC.

I usually do most of my web development in Dreamweaver. I rarely switch out of code view, but I do use some of the built-in tools such as the css design pane and the ftp pane. I’m trying to do without Dreamweaver, because it’s pretty expensive considering I don’t really use much of its functionality. I’m currently trying Textmate for editing and Cyberduck for SFTP transfers.

This is the first entry written on my new 15″ Powerbook G4. This is my first Macintosh and so far I really love it. I’ve had it for exactly one week and my only complaint is that there is no normal del key. That kind of sucks for editing text, but I’m already getting used to it. Update: I just found out that fn-delete works like the normal del key

Inspired by this weekend’s adventures installing Ruby on Rails w/FastCGI on a Fedora Core 1 system running Ensim 4.03. This makes it seem so easy, but it took a day of troubleshooting to work through this stuff. Hopefully this will help someone else who’s trying to make Ruby on Rails play nice on an Ensim box.
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Update: These instructions do not work with the Retrospect 2.0. I will be updating these instructions as soon as I get time.

It turns out that integrating Retrospect-GDS with Wordpress is pretty easy. If you’d like to display your family’s genealogy inside Wordpress this article will tell you how to do it.

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I do believe that all the old pages are gone now. The site rebuild is almost complete. All the old crap is gone. Only a few things to bring back in the new format. Sunday night is the cutoff. Whatever doesn’t get resurrected by then will probably stay dead. If so, good riddance. Didn’t need it anyway.