Sacina Blog
New desktop - Kiwi-esque
Well, I hadn’t planned on making another one, but feedback on Watermelon-esque was positive, so I figured, “why not?”.
This time around, I went with another quirky, favorite fruit of mine, the kiwifruit. Sure, it’s hairy and a bit tart, but they’re delicious and in season.
Feel free to go pick it up right now in the goodies section.
Read MoreAugust 23, 2007 13:06 8200 Comments
New desktop - Watermelon-esque
A long time ago, on a website far, far away, I made a desktop called ‘Watermelon Lines’. It was my first desktop, and it wasn’t very good.
While I was redoing the site, I thought about putting it in the goodies section, but soon realized the lack of quality it had, so I redid it into something worthy of downloading.
If you’re interested, go grab Watermelon-esque from the Goodies section right now.
Read MoreAugust 20, 2007 13:32 4041 Comments
Sacina on Rails
It’s been a long six years; today marks the launch of the newest iteration of my personal site, Sacina. Rewritten entirely in Ruby on Rails, it’s faster, better looking, easier to use, and with more features.
When I started in on this newest version of Sacina, it got me reminescing. I thought of the “old” internet, when I was a child, of the early 1990’s. You may remember these sites, with such staples as unformatted text, ugly tables, dividing lines, and cheesy, tiled background patterns. My, how things have changed. Now there’s CSS, a plethora of languages to code in, and much, much nicer graphics.
You might wonder how we got here (if you didn’t, you can stop reading here – on top of educating those who are interested, this post is for me, as well).
The Beginning
Roll back to June of 2000. I tried my hand at a website to hold the various icon sets and Kaleidoscope schemes I’d made over the years. Not knowing the first bit of HTML, I settled for some free hosting, a template, and iDeal Mac was born. It wasn’t much, and the content wasn’t my best work, but it paved the way for future mac-themed sites.
In 2001 came my first real opportunity in the Macintosh community. Mac OS X had just been out a few months, and a few brave souls began hacking away to find...
Read MoreAugust 19, 2007 00:01 1702 Comments
