DeWitt Clinton

I didn’t get any coding done over the holiday weekend on the new project, though I did make some progress deciding what needs to be coded. That’s probably a good thing. That is unless it is an indicator of insurmountable inertia. My first problem was a little sad. I couldn’t pick the codenames for the [...]

I just wanted to cover a handful of miscellaneous details regarding the new project. Each of these has the possibility to be a bit contentious, so I’ll try to outline my reasoning the best I can. Source Control: Having a source control system implies that there will indeed be source code, so the mere fact [...]

Well, perhaps it wasn’t exactly an epiphany, but something just clicked about the new project while I was driving to work the other day. The whole project has been going well so far. I like the strict separation of the client from the server. I like that the web services approach will allow other people [...]

Based on some questions that were raised, I realized that there is still some confusion regarding the user authentication model. This is good, as it got me to thinking more about the problem, and I want to reopen it here in case anyone has a better suggestion. Starting from the top, one thing that almost [...]

New and improved! The migration of unto.net to longer-term servers is almost done. I ended up going with John Companies thanks to the advice of Matthew and Brett. Basically it is another VPS host, but this one is more than enough to power this little site, and will be enough to launch the new project. [...]