hathix 3.0 “Pastel” – una nueva mirada, justo a tiempo

hathix.com’s primer cumpleaños es mañana, así que para celebrar que he recibido un regalo – un aspecto totalmente nuevo! hathix 3.0, nombre en clave Pastel, conserva el esquema de color de la versión antigua (apropiadamente llamado hathix 2.1 “Gota de rocío”) pero luce un nuevo aspecto aireado eso es limpio y elegante. Echa un vistazo (o probarlo):

¿Cómo se pronuncia “hathix”?

His name's hathix.
An elephant in a box.

You’d think I get that question a lot, but actually I don’tmost people pronounce it a certain way and are absolutely, positively, sure they’re right. There are so many pronunciations it’s incredible, so who am I to choose theproper” uno? Let ’em pronounce it however they like, I say.

That being said, the number of pronunciations I hear is borderline ridiculous. Here are the most common ones I’ve heard.

Una nueva mirada entera

Bien, the host switch went nearly seamlessly (so seamlessly, de hecho, that I have no idea if the switch actually happened.) Lo prometido es deuda, here’s something big for you.

If you’ve ever viewed the hathix.com home page, you’ll notice how horrible it looks. Or used to look.

The old hathix.com
hathix.com circa April 2011

Not very pretty, derecho? Bien, it wasn’t supposed to be. I just threw together some code to make the site work; the look wasn’t at all important.

Well I soon realized that a) this horribly ugly look was probably hurting the site and b) I had some spare time on my hands. So I wrote some new code for the site and here’s what I got:

Conmutación anfitriones, esperar un poco de tiempo de inactividad

Just a quick notice. I’m in the process of switching hosts for hathix.com, so starting tomorrow expect some downtime.

I have no idea how long the site will be down; some people have said only a few hours but I’ve read on some forums that it can take up to a week. Not exactly what I’d call helpful.

And after I switch hosts it’ll take me a little while to import some databases and other fun web management stuff, which might take another day.

To make it up to you there will be some goodies heading your way once the site’s back up.

Siga hathix.com en Twitter

Buenas noticias, sabuesos noticias, adictos a la tecnología, y amantes del elefante: ahora se puede seguir hathix.com en Twitter – @ Hathix. O simplemente haga clic en el botón de arriba del poste.

Esto es lo que voy a estar twitteando sobre:

  • Nuevas publicaciones de blog
  • hathix.com noticias
  • Noticias Tecnología pequeña, que no lo hacen en una entrada de blog
  • Menores comentarios que no lo hacen en las entradas del blog
  • Reflexiones al azar sobre el desarrollo de software

Suena interesante? Me puedes seguir para recibir todas las actualizaciones, o si usted no tiene una cuenta de Twitter que sólo puede marcar mi página y ver mis tweets desde allí.

Buy hathix.com shirts, mugs, and other stuff

Foreword: I’m allowed a shameless plug every so often, aren’t I?

Buenas noticias: I’ve created an official hathix.com store on CafePress where you can buy

The official hathix.com shop sells shirts, gifts, and more
Some of the stuff you can buy from the hathix.com store (hathix.com/store)

official hathix.com gear:

  • T-shirts for men, women, and kids
  • Hoodies for men, women, and kids
  • Caps
  • Tote bags
  • Mugs
  • Clocks
  • Water bottles

So far I only have 6 designs, but more are coming soon. A design works on any item in the store.

Love the elephant? Grab yourself something from the store today (it’s at hathix.com/store).

La búsqueda de una página de inicio decente

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. Quiero decir, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, bien, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.

I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.