sitharus.com
Xero
This year I started a new job, moving from my old position of a Java/iPhone developer at Innaworks to a C#/ASP.NET developer at Xero. This involved using Windows as a primary platform for the first time in at least 5 years.
Windows 7, while in my opinion more refined than Windows XP, still feels like Windows. The development tools have more features than Xcode, but fewer than Eclipse, and the profiling tools just aren’t Shark.
However, I think it’s a good move. The people have been great so far, and I now believe I can do something that will actually affect people’s lives.
Movable Type 4, Lighttpd and FastCGI
Since this was very hard to google I think it needs more links.
I’ve just set up Movable Type 4.3 to use fastcgi under lighttpd. I use lighttpd because it’s (normally) easier than apache, and my VPS doesn’t have any swap - apache is heavyweight in the RAM department. However, I do have RAM to spare, so caching the perl seems smart, especially with CPU that’s probably overcommitted.
It turns out you need MT-Dispatch to get it running. I’m using Ubuntu Jaunty, so it’s a fairly recent lighttpd.
You’ll also want to modify the spawn-fcgi Ubuntu init script to spawn fcgi. I removed the PHP references and stopped it starting/stopping lighttpd with the fcgi.
So now I have fastcgi, it makes the admin interface faster :)
TypeKit is live!
I’ve long been a supporter of getting font embedding working on the web - I’m tired of seeing Arial and Verdana everywhere. They’re pretty screen fonts, but variety is the spice of life I’m told.
But today TypeKit is out of testing, ready for general consumption! This site is using typekit right now, you can see the fonts in any modern browser.
The site lives!
After a rather extended absence I have resurrected my website. I will be adding content back, though not everything that was up before. Hopefully I will add new things as well.
I've moved from SVN to Git, so all my published source will now be in git. I'm hoping to publish some projects I've been working on, but that depends on time.
I will eventually get a contact form running, but for now my email is my-domain@my-domain.com, replacing my-domain with this one.