Robert.Hodgen.me

Another rainy day and I’ve got to walk to class, at least this time I managed to stay somewhat dry.

I just finished revamping OS X 411, follow it on Twitter @osx411 or http://osx411.com

Over the last few weeks I have been debating whether or not to change OS X 411 from a blog running Wordpress to a forum running Invision Power Board. My friend Jason Hilton recommended I install a forum and highly recommended IPBoard as he was pleased with it on his last project: Mustang411.com.

So yesterday I purchased IPBoard plus the blog and I’ve been working on transferring some of the most popular blog posts over to the forum. The new site incorporates a new blog, from now on I’m going to try to pick the best threads from the forum for use on the official OS X 411 blog. In addition to the official blog, users are able to create their own blogs on the website, enabling them to blog about projects or whatever.

I also setup a twitter account, @osx411 where I’ll probably tweet for some of the blog posts.

Over the weekend I spent some time moving all (my live websites) over to my mac mini running Mac OS X Server. I’m replacing a GoDaddy VPS not because I wasn’t happy with it but just for a change a more control. The mini is located at home and this is a proof of concept for me. I’m using DynDNS.com to update the DNS records every time my dynamic IP address changes.

So far these are the domains I’m hosting at home:

• roberthodgen.com
• hodgen.me (all subdomains like robert.hodgen.me, apps.hodgen.me, etc.)
• osx411.com
• swapitapp.com

If I create any new websites I’ll probably add them to the mac mini.

Back up at FSU for some more learning!

Chillin’ at home.

A while ago I made a portfolio that I put up on roberthodgen.com, I liked the design a lot, seeing as how its clean, so I wanted to adapt that to a Wordpress them for my blog. And that’s exactly what I spent some time on yesterday and today.

New Blog Design

I wanted to have a common theme between the two website (my portfolio and this blog) and I think I’ve achieved that with this new Wordpress theme.

Got myself a replacement iPhone today (power button fell off on the old one)

My tweets will now show up inline with my blog posts. They will be posted under the Tweet category and tagged with a few tags like @roberthodgen, twitter and tweets.

Like everyone else on the internet today I enabled Google Buzz in Gmail, check it out at google.com/profiles/RobertHodgen for stuff from me on Google Buzz. I’ve also “linked” it to my twitter account as well @roberthodgen.