Gordaen’s Blog

Now that my redesign has been live for a few days, I decided to spend a fair chunk of time looking through my logs, focusing on the errors and analyzing for patterns. The majority of the broken link triggers were either to a Google Gadget that I made over a year ago (and have […]

I have been meaning to redesign my “main” site for quite some time. I put “main” in quotes because Gordaen.com started as my only site, but my Toyota MR2 site receives far more visits every day than this blog, which receives far more hits than my “main” site. One of the reasons that […]

This is how my “iGoogle” page showed up yesterday. Fortunately, a quick refresh took care of the problem.

PHP frameworks are supposed to empower the coder, while helping to keep things standardized. Unfortunately, that often means dealing with limitations or significant overhead. It is very difficult to find the right framework for any project, small or large, but I’ve created an all-purpose framework called Bruised Coccyx (Bruco for short). It’s […]

I’ve been working on a complete redesign of my ugly main site this summer (including rewriting all of the code). When I was perhaps halfway done, I thought that I should use a PHP framework. I had to redo most of the code, again, but it would save me work in the future […]