Weekend website updates

I spent much of this weekend inside, out of the snow, working on a couple of geeky/cool website updates.

First, I sent out about 150 online Christmas cards. For the last few years I used Yahoo Greetings, but this time I decided I wanted something a little more personal. I included a Flickr slideshow and a short holiday letter to the people I haven’t talked to recently. Plus I got to play around with some cool new technology like sIFR and the Amazon CloudFront CDN. If you didn’t receive a card but you’d like one, let me know in the comments.

Second, I developed a dashboard to monitor the health of my web server. I wrote a small script which captures statistics every minute, and then built the dashboard to go along with it. I’m using Flot, a JavaScript graphing library, to generate the graphs. It probably would have been wise to use an existing component to capture the data, but this works fine for now.

Geeky/cool indeed.

  • Thx for the card!
  • That is implausibly geeky. I tried to convince Shawn to let me convert my desktop into a media PC & home server (so I could build a new desktop). He didn’t take the bait. On the bright side, I am going to upgrade to from 1 to 2GB of RAM.
  • sro
    Thanks for the card, and cool dashboard. That might be something worth open sourcing if you're up for it.
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