Category Archives: meta

Say hello to the Squid

By Dave | Published: December 3, 2009

After Dreamhost decided to failwhale on my site one too many times, I’ve moved this domain over to Laughing Squid’s hosting service! Looking forward to newfound stability and availability! Yes! I’ve also included an awesome little LS logo in the sidebar, to advertise my love for these guys. They’ve done a fantastic job hosting Geology [...]

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Out with landing pages!

By Dave | Published: November 30, 2009

If you’ve visited this site before, you might have noticed that going to the root url, daveschumaker.net, took you to a landing page. It listed links to various social networks, projects, photos, and such. It was also kind of annoying. The bread and butter of this site were the blog and the photos posted on [...]

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Rolling my own URL shortener

By Dave | Published: September 23, 2009

Thanks to the popularity of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, URL shorteners are popping up everywhere. Bit.ly, one of the most popular shortening services, has raised over $2 million dollars in funding! Despite their popularity, URL shortening sites are by no means a permanent fixture on the internet. A perfect example of this was tr.im, [...]

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Back Online with a New Design!

By Dave | Published: April 4, 2009

While updating some components of the blog this week, my website experienced a PHP out of memory error and ended up breaking the entire blog thanks to some corrupted files. After rebuilding the database and reinstalling WordPress, it appears that I’m back in business! And with a new design. Enjoy!

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