New website for me!
Posted by Ben Hymers | Filed under website
Continuing on my web presence rampage, I've made a proper website for myself: www.benhymers.com. Hopefully now it'll rank higher than 6th in a google search for "Ben Hymers".
My next task is to get CITS working again, as the switch to Bullet physics has left it slightly crippled. I'd like to capture another video of it since the current one is very out of date and gives the wrong impression!
New website for Cities in the Sky
Posted by Ben Hymers | Filed under website
I've made a proper website for Cities in the Sky, www.citiesinthesky.co.uk! Well done me. That URL used to be for this blog, but it never quite sat right with me, having the game name as my personal blog, which is why I bought benhymers.com. Now citiesinthesky.co.uk will be used for things relating specifically to the game.
I've implemented it as another Google App Engine app, since whilst the page you see is just some static HTML, it's also making use of a heavily modified gredirector script to redirect all the old traffic from the blog and pages, to either this blog, my main website, or to the main Cities in the Sky website.
Time to get working on my main website, I'm a bit ashamed to put my name to it at the moment!
Feed me spam
Posted by Ben Hymers | Filed under website
For those of you that have subscribed to the site's feed; I'm very sorry about the spam! I've just been fixing up old posts, but it looks like Bloggart's feed generation is being a bit silly and is generating a new entry for every edit I make! I only discovered after I'd edited a load and noticed there are suddenly 40-something unread entries!
Still, it's mostly there now; I've sorted out issues with some posts being inaccessible due to odd characters in their URLs, added formatting where the import from Wordpress had none, and fixed links to images that were on the old host or on Picasa Web Albums, so they all point to Flickr now.
Unfortunately all my travel posts will need some more updating as I can't be bothered to put all the photos on Flickr but the styles the images used to use aren't in the new stylesheet, so there may be some more feed spam yet...
Another fresh start
Posted by Ben Hymers | Filed under website
Let's just gloss over the massive irony of the last post and skip on to pointing out the obvious; I've moved my blog again! I'm now using Google AppEngine to host it, using a piece of software called Bloggart. I've done this for a few reasons: mostly it's the scalability and reliability that comes with Google's clever virtualisation technology, but also it's that I won't have to pay for hosting until this site becomes very popular! To you, all this means is that the site should have less downtime and be faster to load, even when it's getting absolutely hammered (which is roughly never). I wanted to get the blog moved over to the new software and new snappy domain (blog.benhymers.com) before I wrote any more content, as the more readers I have the more of a pain it will be to move in future.
Obviously there are some kinks to work out. First is that most of the old post's formatting was lost in the transition - paragraphs and styles are mostly missing, code snippets and anything that looked like HTML is all wonky, and images appear inline ...