Part of my intent in making this blog was to be able to talk about ongoing development in my various projects. Unfortunately, a lot of the work I typically do is simple HTML and CSS and it’s not challenging me to learn something new. Today, however, I have something to report.

I received an email from Dreamhost last week informing me that they were throttling connections to my video hosting site because recent traffic spikes from the Sonic Unleashed Let’s Play were causing the Apache server to have problems. Now I’ll be the first to admit that my video hosting solution is not elegant or efficient. I started it small and hacked on features as I went. Yeah, one of those. Everyone makes one eventually, but in this case, mine got popular so I needed to fix it.
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As I posted mere minutes ago, I’m working on an invoicing system. Part of this blog’s function is to be a regurgitation of things I think about when working of various projects, so here we go.

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Before about a month ago I had never touched JavaScript, I thought it unnecessary. I had been able to do everything I ever wanted in CSS, and if some task could only be done in JavaScript, then it was not a task worth persuing. Well as of a month or so ago, I began a project at work to create an invoicing system. I’ll get into the specifics of the project in some other post, but a large part of it was using jQuery to create a true dynamic web application. Picking up jQuery does not strictly imply that you pick up JavaScript, but they are rather close enough that you begin to see the majesty and wonder of being able to manipulate the DOM so freely.

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I am starting a blog. This may seem like an odd move to a lot of you for a couple reasons:

1. I don’t update the blog I have because I stopped being emo forever ago
2. I already sorta have a blog?

But I want to start a real blog. One in which I can chronicle my development revelations and tribulations. Strictly technical junk here, no personal life stuff. It all starts with this post about the development of said blog…

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