Falling into October

Haven't posted for a while. Work has been keeping me busy, along with other things. After several months away from it, I've re-started my efforts to develop my website. It's not just work that's been keeping me away. For a bit my computer was misbehaving, turns out that a partially corrupted filesystem was to blame. The experience taught me a lesson that I should have already learned a long time ago. That being to have a back up and a rescue disk. I took some effort to recover my system and to not lose any of my data. The system can easily be replaced, but the data isn't easily replaced. The other roadblock keeping me away was my friend's website had to be PCI compliant and the deadline was in the middle of my business travels. From that episode I learned quite a bit about Apache security configuration and how SSL, TSL, and security certificates work from a practical perspective. Now my goal is measured, disciplined, cumulative development of the site. I'll keep this blog posted on my progress.