July 2009 Entries
It has been many years since I switched away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer - that was around the time when IE 5.5 was ruling the world. I stumbled upon Mozilla Firebird (which was one of the earlier names of Mozilla Firefox, it was named Phoenix before that) - and have been with the Firebird/Firefox browser ever since. In the beginning it was the "magic" of tabbed browsing that got me switching - but today there's three major reasons why I prefer Firefox over Google Chrome - which I believe to be one of the best browsers out there.
1. Google Chrome...
Along with the makeover of the site - alot more has been undergoing changes. In fact, the entire site is now hosted at my own VPS (Virtual Private Server). This means that I have full control over everything and this gives me nice options to run other types of servers as well - such as Subversion for Source Control, TeamCity for Continuous Integration - but also more commonly known services such as a mail server.
With this freedom also comes the tiring job of setting it all up and getting it working. I have previously set up several Linux servers for...
I have been running this site for a long time on a blog engine I wrote myself quite a while back. I mainly did this - because I wanted to write a blog engine - and what better way of testing it other than using it yourself can you possibly do? However - this engine was really simple and lacked alot of features, and I, unfortunatly, now years later have lost the source code for it.
So, I decided to try and use one of the more known engines - and have now gone with SubText. I am still trying to...