Speed, projects and features – oh my!
Added a whole bunch of new features to the blog, mostly back end changes but a few new pages too.
There’s the new “Projects” section which is powered by a nice little back-end script to let me easily manage links and data to all the projects I’m working on, or have worked on.
I added a “LifeStream” – based on the same concept that facebook uses to aggregate many social sites into one ‘stream’. Ironically, I disabled facebook from showing up on the stream because it was posting way too much. Though the upside is, it gave me an idea for getting my whole cross-posting idea to work that I’m going to explore later. Originally I was trying to use my blog to push data to all the other services I use, but I figured I could also use facebook to push to my blog and from my blog to the rest of the services. I’d have to work out how I could make my blog still push unique posts to facebook and not push those specific posts but I haven’t really looked at any code yet so I’ll figure it out then.
Next, I finally figured out how to set up my blog as an OpenID provider 
So instead of remembering that convoluted verisign address that I *ALWAYS* forget, I can just use my blog address. Nice and simple.
I’ve added a massive caching system and found another use for my Amazon S3 account! I decided to create a new s3 bucket and linked it to Amazon’s Cloud Front. All media, most javascript, css, etc… is now served from local amazon end points (@ cloud.theootz.com) instead of my hosting provider I haven’t tested to see if this has resulted in any real speed improvement, but at least at a glance it seems to help a lot.
And to end it off, I found a wordpress plug-in for managing resume’s that I’m looking at using for posting my CV up on the site. Haven’t fiddled with it much yet but it seems to hold promise. Also another plug-in to find and display ‘related posts’ at the bottom of each post I make. Gotta love wordpress plug-ins
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about 7 months ago - View Comments
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