As most kiddies are finishing up their studies and looking forward to a long, relaxing summer, I’ve decided to take the opposite approach to the climate change. Business has been good, but I don’t want to settle for good. Good is bland. I want the type of business that excites me to no end, where I get giddy like a school girl talking about it. So instead of spring cleaning, I’m summer revamping.

I’m in a unique place to take risks in life. I’m young, I have a small amount of overhead, and the only person depending on me is me. I’ve always seen this as a wonderful strength when it comes to my business. I can take an idea, form a plan, go with it and see where it takes me. Simple as that. So in an effort to revitalize my business, I’m going to take the next few months and push the envelope. I want to find out for myself what this can be and where it can take me.

I’ve decided to write this series of business ventures down as I go. Maybe they will be able to give people a few ideas of how to shake up their own small business. Maybe it will simply turn out as an entertaining log of horrible business mistakes to avoid at all cost. But at the very least, these entries will be open, honest, and a way for me to show you all how I’m pushing at building a more successful and exciting business. I’m risky, but I’m not stupid, and I think a whole lot of good will come out of this push, for both me and my clients. I welcome any ideas and suggestions for mixing things up and I look forward to sharing this adventure with you.

Newly launched and with a promise of a better tomorrow, here is my web development blog, 90 Percent Gravity. Some of the new features currently implemented here are:

• New host, now running on the much more reliable Slicehost , compared to the crappy old mishap of running a rails app on dreamhost
• New cms, now powered by Simplelog, a much lighter and easier to configure and hax0r away on then the hunky chunky behemoth that is typo. A strong thank you goes out to John Nunemaker, who helped me with a strange theme issue which was impending my launch, in addition to the already vast amounts of wisdom and assistance he gives me on a regular basis.
• New site logo, created by the wonderful and recently birthday’d Tim O’Connor. He was kind enough to point out that I desperately needed one and then take it upon himself to make it.
• New layout design, once again designed by the happily married Tim O’Connor, with tiny elements by me, and then coded in XHTML and CSS by me again. This design is tighttt and I owe Tim several more high fives and cases of beer for it.
• New focus, to be employed by me for the life of this blog. Tho I will find each entry personal in that it comes from my voice and is written in my words, this blog is now the official web development blog of William H. Harle Jr. I’ve been into standards-based web development for two and a half years now, developing applications for the better part of the last 15 months, with a great focus on Ruby on Rails most recently. I learn new things everyday and I need somewhere to share my views, expertise, idiocy, and love for web development. That is what this site is for.

This blog is agile. It will continue to grow as needed. Sign up for my RSS, and get ready for some discussion. Here goes.