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A little birdie told me that Godaddy supports Ruby On Rails Applications. This little birdie, however, did not sing me the whole song. Soon after, I was on the phone with Godaddy support to see if we could get a demo app up and running. No such luck! While ROR is supported, unfortunately Godaddy support staff is totally clueless on how to get it to work. I set about troubleshooting and this is what I found.
Design is a process, right? This particular process was all about taking a design and following specific instructions to recycle it. However, as a designer it’s also my job to identify and compensate for issues that arise during the design process. The “design as a process” concept is true in many ways. In this case, the work took a couple of iterations before reaching completion. The end result also illustrates the ways in which one design can slowly morph over time.
KeyValueTextBlock is a PHP Class. I use it on systems where the function http_parse_headers() is not available. It takes a block of text, splits it into records, and splits each record into a key/value pair. After that, you can get a specific value, or all key/value pairs.
I finally broke down and decided to compile my own software. I’ve been avoiding this for a while for no particular reason. Maybe I just didn’t feel ready to cross that particular Rubicon. But the day has come, and the world will never be the same. In the process I upgraded my compiler, so my compiling process is not quite the same as what I read online. But it does work on Mac OSX 10.4, and that’s really all that matters to me. Here’s what I did…
I just signed up for a new online account with somebody-or-other. The emailed my new account information to my GMAIL account, which was nice. However, they also emailed me my password in plain text. I really didn’t want this plain text password just sitting around, so this is what I did.
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