26 August 2003

I can not stand for client-side, JavaScript based, hit counter. The spec. that I need most: elegant and simple banner (I hate bigger and too-exposed color) and IP/host exclusion. CQCounter is my favourite, but, unfotunately they do not provide host exclusion, so it will be polluted with my own access when in editing or previewing mode. As a result, from yesterday I furnished our Analog, a web server's log analyzer. Most important things has been done was Virtual Host support. At the time when I first activated Analog, I erased our logs that include Virtual Host [I know, erasing logs is near to criminal activity!], but now I keep in mind that it is a must in an environment like our server.

To avoid me from doing a stupid thing, like no historical awareness, I move old Analog's page in separate directory, and provide necessary link for it. All activities are recorded formally in Atijembar.

23 August 2003

All materials from old Coret Moret have been copied into new site with an explanation about anachronism. So, from now it is time to collect my writing from other archive as well as — more important — write more and more new articles.

20 August 2003

Today I launch Coret Moret Amal using MovableType (MT). Because MT's environment is too heavy using deGromiest server, Coret Moret Amal is hosted in AMD machine — better performance with possible downtime risk because the nature of its usage. But this is the only option to provide better website.

12 August 2003

Digging into MT's template and comparing with some working blog-site, I find that simplicity in style and clear block is more important to my writing site. Want to get into design quickly, but today I have less energy for my innovative mind.

Maybe tonight until tomorrow!

08 August 2003

The heatwave across Europe makes these days get terrible with higher temperature. [News]

So now the problem comes...

Having tried MT in our deGromiest server, I found that it makes our server works hard — the final point is slow...

It is my plan to use our AMD computer for MT, but how to make it reliable enough not to be used by gamers (aka. The Farras Team)?

Maybe with time pass, there will be a solution, especially if my plan for this project sounds useful and attract visitors.

Go and go!

07 August 2003

I can't resist!

From yesterday evening, I dig into some possibilities for using blog tools — especially MovableType (MT) and WordPress. Both of them were known incidentally from a friend and Ensiklonesia. They both have plus-minus for my condition; even to me personally seems like a long-term fight between Perl and PHP.

This new tools will be used to maintain more-in-layout website such as my Coret Moret and another other that is currently inside my plan.

Finally, minutes to midnight, MT has been installed in my production machine. [MT's kick out: its ready-in-use style is superior. I never sit on design class, so pardon me!]

05 August 2003

Related to my little announcement, I write email describing some statistics to deGromiest. It is archived in Yahoogroups (in Bahasa Indonesia). I have a plan to expose it also in Serambi.

04 August 2003

One of my first and long-maintained website for our moslem community in Groningen, Serambi deGromiest, reach 10k+ hits today. It was built using handycraft simple scripting (perhaps lazy?) Andy Wardley's Template Toolkit. Of course, Perl rules!. This handycraft construction was at first to be choosed for accomodating our free webhosting that does not support server side scripting. But due to complexity (and once again, laziness?), even after currently two months migrating to our own server, I keep this method rocks!

Other point: today I also visit some blog-related sites (production-tools, communities, templates, etc.) and truly, I ever consider (seducted, uh?) to accomodate their easy-maintenance, elegant-style, and multi-users support. Some hours I rethink and reconsider. But at least I will not change my self-hand made web tools by just that reasons. To be truth, I do not want getting too easy to maintain (do you ever think that behind a-to-z of programming, lies down a beauty of satisfaction?); elegant is okay, but... ups, we do not have any commited web-artist (so who will handle elegancy?); and multi-users... hoaaa... I am a single-fighter webmaster — Tukang Web sebatang kara!

03 August 2003

After some consideration what topic should be written, today I complete my first entry to Ensiklonesia, entitle Alun-alun. Hope this is a good starting point for writing in Ensiklonesia.

This Writing in Silence was started with intro

Anything around me gets hard to be predicted, uneasy to manage, and virulent to be spoken. Bitter and cold. Finally I have to go back into my sharpest weapon: writing!

I know this can be changed sometime in the future, so I archive it here.

Basically, I am not so agree writing my opinion in curhat mode. It is a little bit sentimental, in a blue passion, and somewhat not easy to be expressed. But I am interested to write all my activities. It is not merely about to be exposed, but to invest a kind of nostalgia ("something nice to remember") for someday. The other reason is to share many useful practical things.

This is also my experience in English writing. My other serious writing is absolutely in my mother language, Bahasa Indonesia, as I can do performing more acrobatic words there.

:: Curhat is a short word from "curahan hati" (heartly speaking) that most Indonesian used when they want to talk something more intense or in private way.