A blog about what I find interesting.

We had the print made at Sams for $12. The frame itself was quite a bit more. We plan on updating the photo every few years with a new one of Ashley.

Shampoo.com

Today we launched shampoo.com

I mostly worked on the back end of things, including a lot of plugin work that we used. It’s been a challenging and fun project to work on.

And if you are looking for some specialized shampoo or other hair styling products then shampoo.com is the place to go.

The live streams are over but you can still watch what went on below.

photo credit: Berberich

When I started working for Digimedia we decided that a lot of our projects were going to be done in rails. I had never used ruby at that point and rails and frameworks in general were just starting to gain popularity. So I was a bit skeptical about the benifits of learning a new language all over again. At that point the majority of web coding was done in php or asp and I had many years of experience in both.

Well I’m glad that I did learn ruby and the rails framework. Things that would take a while coding in php and asp, I could knock out in minutes in rails. Not only that but I really do prefer the syntax of ruby now. I still use php for a lot of simple things, but if it will need a database, rails is where I look first.

I’ve even gotten as far as writing some of my own plugins, and forking some others to add more functionality. The open source environment with ruby is outstanding.

I updated wordpress to the latest version and broke my old theme. Then I found a nice one called pixel. It looked nice but had a few things that needed some changes to fit more of what I wanted.

I’m in the process of moving everything over from site5 to slicehost.

I’ve had nothing but problems from site5 since I purchased a 2 year hosting account from them. So far slicehost seems great. With just a little bit of technical knowledge I was able to create a slice setup from scratch to host both php and rails applications.

I also purchased a new domain, loveatfirstim.com I’ve got some plans for it, but no telling if I will ever get around to doing anything with it.

It seems like an interesting way to add content to my blog. Testing out a few things below.

Well now you can.

Ashley Elizabeth, originally uploaded by kmahan_com.

Born on Jan 14th 2008 at 2:06 am.

She weighs 7lbs. 15oz. and is 21 inches long. She has a full head of hair already, and her eyes are a dark blue gray for the moment.

Some new pictures, full size styrofoam mock ups, and more information on the new VentureOne from IanBruce.

Hi people,

As we begin the New Year, we wanted to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your continued contribution in helping us make Venture Vehicles a reality! I’m not exaggerating when I say that the past 6 months has seen the greatest growth and momentum for us since Howard Levine and I began this effort back in 2005.

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