Comments on: Behind the Scenes at Keener Living http://www.keenerliving.com/behind-the-scenes-at-keener-living A retired professional talks about life, technology, learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bruce http://www.keenerliving.com/behind-the-scenes-at-keener-living#comment-24939 Bruce Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:36:04 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2008/01/26/behind-the-scenes-at-keener-living/#comment-24939 Hi Thomas, Thanks for the URI link. I'll check it out. You are certainly right about TextMate. I doubt that I use 5% of its potential. Its docs could be improved a lot. Nonetheless, I use it frequently. Good point about the automation of backups. I will look into it. I know there is at least one RoR script I could use for automating the S3 backup, directly from my server, but I would want to monitor its impact on bandwidth before automating with it. Server to server transfers could possibly exceed the bandwidth limits of my host, although I doubt it. Would sure be faster than me backing up manually, and probably more reliable. Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the URI link. I’ll check it out.

You are certainly right about TextMate. I doubt that I use 5% of its potential. Its docs could be improved a lot. Nonetheless, I use it frequently.

Good point about the automation of backups. I will look into it. I know there is at least one RoR script I could use for automating the S3 backup, directly from my server, but I would want to monitor its impact on bandwidth before automating with it. Server to server transfers could possibly exceed the bandwidth limits of my host, although I doubt it. Would sure be faster than me backing up manually, and probably more reliable.

]]> By: Thomas R. Hall http://www.keenerliving.com/behind-the-scenes-at-keener-living#comment-24938 Thomas R. Hall Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:30:56 +0000 http://www.keenerliving.com/2008/01/26/behind-the-scenes-at-keener-living/#comment-24938 I think it's really good that you put in the redirect for the category you removed. Of course, it's helpful for anyone who may have tried to go to that and got the 404 error, but also, it's better for the web to have these addresses be more permanent. There is a great article from Tim Berners-Lee on this topic entitled <em><a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI" rel="nofollow">Cool URIs dont' change</a></em> that explains why you want your URIs to be static and unchanging. Also, TextMate is excellent, but unfortunately, it's difficult to harness all of its power based on the existing documentation. There are screencasts that show how to do HTML expansion and many other things (so you wouldn't have to use TextExpander for that particular purpose), but it is difficult to see how to do those types of things just by poking around with it. Also, there may be some ways to automate some of your weekly tasks, such as backing up your database archives to Amazon's S3. Depends on whether your hosting provider allows you to run cron jobs or not. If not, maybe using Automator or AppleScript on your Mac could do the trick... Thanks for the great post. Interesting to hear how you've been run the site. I think it’s really good that you put in the redirect for the category you removed. Of course, it’s helpful for anyone who may have tried to go to that and got the 404 error, but also, it’s better for the web to have these addresses be more permanent. There is a great article from Tim Berners-Lee on this topic entitled Cool URIs dont’ change that explains why you want your URIs to be static and unchanging.

Also, TextMate is excellent, but unfortunately, it’s difficult to harness all of its power based on the existing documentation. There are screencasts that show how to do HTML expansion and many other things (so you wouldn’t have to use TextExpander for that particular purpose), but it is difficult to see how to do those types of things just by poking around with it.

Also, there may be some ways to automate some of your weekly tasks, such as backing up your database archives to Amazon’s S3. Depends on whether your hosting provider allows you to run cron jobs or not. If not, maybe using Automator or AppleScript on your Mac could do the trick…

Thanks for the great post. Interesting to hear how you’ve been run the site.

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