Gabriel Egolf has joined our Ben's Friends. He's been lurking around here for a while, but just last month he began blogging at vortex. Gabe and I worked at the Web Technologies department of BJU and worked on a lot of web site projects together. If you're interested in web design or CSS (specifically) or even PHP scripting, you'll probably find his blog particularly interesting. He does more than blog about web technology stuff though. He's also blogged a number of good Christian walk entries intended to provoke to Love and good works.
Thanks for joining, Gabe.
Ben's Friends is now on a new server. BigBlueHat is going through a transition stage and preparing for larger, long term growth. That being the case, we now have our own Ben's Friends hosting account. This should allow us to manage space better and also tracks stats. 8o)
I'll be posting more information about the stats soon.
All together the move went pretty well. We had some trouble with some of the plugins we added. One of them in particular, mt-rssfeed, plays a crucial role on the front page. It handles getting the entry information from the other blogs to display on the front page. The old path for it's temp directory was hard coded into the application (a Perl file). After fixing that and a few other hard coded paths in a few other files and the database, things seem to be working well.
Please let me know if you run into any problems.
Enjoy the moved site. 8o)
Over the past couple weeks, we've added three new bloggers to the site: Shifting Sand, Esin, and Vortex.
Hope you enjoy all three as they add to the diversity and amount of content here.
Jon joined us through Brannon McAllister.
Gwen and I have been friends for a while as well. I think Hillary was probably most instrumental in getting her to come on board though.
Gabe and I go "way back." We've been friends since our freshman year. We were in the same Prayer Group, but didn't actually meet until after we found out we'd both joined the same society. We were coworkes at Web Tech until last summer. He's working there, holding down the fort, for a few months longer. If you like web design and/or programming, you'll want to watch his blog carefully. He's often my source of CSS information or just cool stuff online.
Enjoy the blogs.