And a New Era Begins
If last summer was the summer of love, this summer is most definitely the summer of hard work. With gigs coming in thick and fast and fabric’s workload getting more and more intense it really is a case of heads down and eyes forward. Typically this was the time my trust G5 Powermac decided to go to that big macstore in the sky. After making a strange clicking sound for a while began randomly resetting, and then finally decided to not boot at all. I could probably get it fixed, but after almost 4 years of being my main workhorse I have decided to hang up my dancing shoes for a while and save to buy a new iMac 24″ Aluminium 3.6 Ghz and Drobo storage robot. I will then be using my 23″ Cinema display as a second screen, perfect for both development work and video editing. The totaliser currently stands at around £40… quite a long way to go, but I should be there in a couple of months.
Work on the new fabric website is underway. The new design has been approved and I have finished the R&D and server side engineering. The new site will run atop Media Temple’s new Nitro platform on a modest server boasting a Quad Core Xeon E5345 2.33 Ghz, 8 GB Fully Buffered (DDR-2) RAM on 2x 300GB SAS disks (15,000 RPM). That should ensure the new site runs like proverbial shit off a shovel. I have chosen to build the site using the rather lovely Codeigniter PHP framework. My PHP knowledge has come on leaps and bounds in the last year, and with the help of Codeigniter I will finally be using a proper MVC coding practice. Version control will be done with SVN via Springloops. Springloops is a fantastic web-app which manages version control, deployment and rollbacks. I highly recommend it. Javascript will of course be handled with Jquery.
I plan on documenting the process of building the new website via this blog, although final designs will stay a closely guarded secret until launch.
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