Posts by Aaron Gustafson 

I have been hosting on Westhost for a little over four years now with no major complaints and I also host the majority of my clients there. They offer a lot of options for very little money and are always adding new features to the accounts. Unfortunately, Ruby on Rails is not one of them… yet.

I've had a few interesting things come through my inbox of late and I thought I would share them with you.

With all of the travelling I was doing last week, I forgot to mention that some of the sites Dave & I have worked at Cronin and Company on took home WebAwards from the Web Marketing Association.

Anyway, we've pushed a new issue of ALA out the door which includes a fantastic piece by Eric on the new ALA print stylesheet and I have a new article is in there as well: Improving Link Display for Print. It's print mania at ALA aparently.

In the wake of the tragedy that befel the citizens of and visitors to New Orleans recently, I've been amazed at the amount of support and kindness being shown to the survivors (Barbara Bush's comments notwithstanding).

It's funny, but the more I take on, the more zen I get about work. Perhaps it's the recent addition of a daily trek to the gym in the wee hours of the morning which is getting my day off to a better start. Or maybe it's the Pragmatic philosophy which is beginning to take hold since finishing The Pragmatic Programmer and starting Agile Web Development with Rails. Who knows, but I am thankful for the calm.

I just encountered a DOM implementation issue in IE which took about three hours to solve (and like a year off my life).

Yeah, I'm weighing into the debate on the ALA redesign. I have to say I agree with Jon and Jeremy regarding the fixed 1024px width.

Congress in going back into session after their summer recess and they will be taking a vote on the Estate Tax. It is a hotly contested issue that I feel very strongly about. The truth is that a lot of public services depend on the revenue generated by the estate tax and the number of people affected by it is less than 1.4% of the population.