Web 1.9

I did something today I haven't done in probably two years. I wrote new code for Bradism.com. Many years ago I was trying to overhaul much of the site when I broke things and my development environment wandered down a completely different path to production. I'd done so much work that I couldn't bring myself to revert to the production version, and I never ended up fixing the problems in the dev build.

Fortunately time heals all wounds, or in this case makes you forget about what you tried write and couldn't fix all those years ago. Writing new code was fun, mainly because I had to remind myself how everything worked. Fortunately I write amusing comments in all my scripts to help me through the puzzling times.

Most of the changes have cleaned up internals, but I did take the time to add a button to the menu that lets you "Like" Bradism.com on Facebook. The point of doing this is minimal, but it will mean that your Facebook news feed will update you when I post an entry, in case you find RSS feeds a little too 2005. If Facebook had existed in all its Web 2.0 glory back when I first started you can be sure it would have been one of the first features I added. I also posted the first of probably many "Behind the Scenes" photos. Actually, that's what motivated me to create the whole fan page in the first place.

I feel quite productive now, really.

I guess I will also say: if there are any features you've wished existed, or problems you have using the website, you can mention them to me and something might actually be done about them.

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frankie

I am not sure if this is like when you accidentally send a group email at work and forget to attach the file to which you refer (and before you have a chance to resend five thousand knowitalls reply back telling you of your mistake) - but in writing your new code have you somehow inadvertently moved the vertical content boxes on the right of the page too far to the left? They are covering up the last word of each line.

Adds a bit mystery though...I like what you are trying to do there ;)

September 14 2010 - Like
Brad

Apparently I did bungle things for Internet Explorer. My QA is still as good as it ever was. I think it should be fixed now, if it's not can you let me know what browser and version you have?

September 14 2010 - Like
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