http://www.michaelgregoire.com Because life is always in beta... Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:32:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm sitting here watching the news coverage building up to the Presidential Inauguration that’ll take place later today. I quite honestly never thought I'd see the day that a black man would become President. I'm proud to be an American today. Perhaps the first time that I've TRULY been able ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2009/01/20/a-new-day/ An article I wrote, extolling the virtues of Creative Commons licensing has just been published on the Portland Press Herald's NXT blog. Here's an excerpt: Each month when preparing the next compilation for the website I run, I scour the internet for shining examples of music that’s released under a Creative ... http://www.michaelgregoire.com/2008/11/18/the-maine-music-sceneis-it-ready-for-creative-commons-licensing/ 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/