Hello (Again) World
I recently made the switch from my cheap inexpensive shared host to a VPS at AHP Hosting. It was a little daunting at first, never having been on anything but shared hosting, and never having had to manage a CF server (other than my own dev box). But the feeling of having complete control over the server has been a very welcome relief over the headaches that frequently accompany shared hosting.
While I was on the inexpensive host, I wasn’t quite confident about the uptime. Hey, it was a good deal for the price, but realistically… it wasn’t something that I felt that I could count on. So I chose to use cfblog.com, an external solution for my blog. Again, given the circumstances, that was a great option for me at the time. But now that I’ve got a server that I’ve got a bit more faith in, I figured it was time to run my own blog. As of now, my old blog has been effectively end-of-life’d. *sniffle* There are still a number of old entries (and comments) that I need to port over. Hopefully that will be done in the near future. I do want to take this opportunity to say thanks to Jon Clausen for all of his hard work on cfblog and all of his assistance while i was there.
Moving forward, this is the new improved blog (running Ray’s BlogCFC). I’ve got a few entries planned about learning Model-Glue, building my first Flex app, and continuing to grasp various OO concepts. Stick around.
Oh, and i haven’t done any extensive browser testing on the new design. If it’s breaking in your browser of choice, please leave a comment below and let me know what’s up (and what browser/OS you’re on).
Oh… and sorry for the clogging up coldfusionbloggers with the new rss 
Tom Mollerus
Charlie, here’s a bit of design feedback for you: on FF2.0 and IE7 on Windows Vista Business, the top of some curved characters in your blog postings look almost "degraded". For instance, the lowercase "h", "s", "c", and "n" (among others) have missing or extra pixels right at the top of their arcs. The same happens for the text "If you subscribe, any new posts" that’s at the bottom of this comment form.
This doesn’t happen in Safari 3 for me. I hope this helps.
Charlie Griefer
hey tom… thanks for the feedback. i’ll check into the Vista issue. could it be that you don’t have cleartype turned on?
i was working on a recently formatted computer, and i did notice that some of the text (especially italicized text) looked really bad. then i realized i didn’t enable cleartype after reformatting.
that fixed things up. altho i don’t want to have to count on folks having cleartype enabled (or any other particular setting), so i might just switch over to a more ‘standard’ font.
Tom Mollerus
Charlie, good question about ClearType. As a matter of fact, I do have it turned on. I’ll email you screen caps of what I see.
Tom Mollerus
Charlie, whatever font you’ve switched to now looks great in my FF and SF browsers, now.
Tom Mollerus
FYI, your comments form still has the old font that appears to antialias poorly in my browser, though.
Charlie Griefer
hi tom:
yeah, i switched out the font declaration in the css to add some more generic fonts. the original design (that i borrowed heavily from) used the following declaration:
"lucida sans",Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif;
i switched that out to:
"Lucida Grande","Trebuchet MS","Bitstream Vera Sans",Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;
i spent some time this weekend tweaking the .css, and i realized that i haven’t gotten all of the fonts yet. hopefully tonite or tomorrow i can finish making the necessary adjustments and get the new code uploaded, with a nice consistent font that renders properly throughout
i’ll also update this entry with a copy of the screenshot you e-mailed me. might help some people down the road.
thanks!
Tom Mollerus
Hey Charlie,
The type is rendering very nicely in every part of your site that I can get to, including the comment form. I’ll try to find you to say hi at cfObjective.
Charlie Griefer
hey tom… sounds good. i’ll buy you a drink for the beta testing