http://www.michaelgregoire.com Because life is always in beta... Tue, 06 May 2008 20:44:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the past couple months I've been using my spare time to port my site blocSonic.com from Ruby On Rails to PHP in order to help loading time and site stability. I'm still in the process of porting the administrative back-end. Probably another month will be required to complete that. ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2008/05/06/blocsonic-and-nine-inch-nails-projects/ Well, I finally went ahead and did it. 04064.com is now a dynamic site. Rather than developing it with Ruby On Rails, I decided on PHP. I got pretty fed up with Ruby's sluggishness and Rails' habit of crashing. No more RoR development for me. Though I can honestly say ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2008/02/04/relaunch-of-04064com/ It's been a while since my design company's site has been updated. Behind the scenes for the past few months, I've been redeveloping it using Ruby on Rails and today I finally was able to launch it. You'll also notice the latest projects that have been completed since last year. ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2007/08/16/nvzion-relaunch/ blocSonic is proud to bring you another compilation featuring ten exceptional tracks from the world of netlabel music. netBloc Volume 2 features rock, calypso, trip-hop, hip-hop, reggae and electronic. Contained within the PDF booklet, you'll find another essay written by myself. This time about the current state of music industry and ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2007/02/13/announcing-netbloc-vol-2-drm-killed-the-music-product-machine/ Happy new year everyone! It's been an extremely long time since my last post, but with the new year I'm back with an announcement. Just launched is my latest project — blocSonic. My first web project using Ruby on Rails. It took a while for me to become "married" to ROR, ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2007/01/15/announcing-blocsonic/