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André Camargo

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Jun 1, 2012, 4:54:12 PM6/1/12
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Hello, today one of my webapps server presented an error when trying
to load rmagick (it was easily solved just running bundle install, but
this isn't the point).

Passenger rendered the error with that black page including backtrack
and other useful information for us, developers.

Interesting that two customers called me saying: my gosh, my site was
defaced! take I look fast please!

So I was thinking... Maybe we should change the layout to something
more "friendly"...

What do you guys think about it? I have a webvdesigner in my team, we
could draw a proposal.

andré ribeiro camargo
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Hongli Lai

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Jun 1, 2012, 5:49:14 PM6/1/12
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:54 PM, André Camargo
<an...@pelotascenter.com.br> wrote:
> Hello, today one of my webapps server presented an error when trying
> to load rmagick (it was easily solved just running bundle install, but
> this isn't the point).
>
> Passenger rendered the error with that black page including backtrack
> and other useful information for us, developers.
>
> Interesting that two customers called me saying: my gosh, my site was
> defaced! take I look fast please!
>
> So I was thinking... Maybe we should change the layout to something
> more "friendly"...
>
> What do you guys think about it? I have a webvdesigner in my team, we
> could draw a proposal.

Hi Andre. I'm definitely interested. We've also noticed that a lot of
regular visitors think that we (Phusion) are the operators behind
whatever site they're visiting that happens to be displaying an error
page. It would be great if a new error page has the following
properties:
1. It looks beautiful. ;)
2. It's developer friendly. It's even newbie-developer friendly. A
developer who just got into Ruby must be able to quickly figure out
what's wrong.
3. It's visitor friendly. They would know that what they're seeing
indicates a technical problem, not a hacking attempt. They would not
think that Phusion is the website's operator, but any sufficiently
knowledgable visitor would know that the operator uses Phusion
Passenger.

Do you think you're up for this challenge? I would love to see a
mockup. I would also like to say in advance that any artwork we accept
must be CC BY or similarly licensed.

- Hongli
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André Camargo

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Jun 5, 2012, 2:02:26 PM6/5/12
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challenge accepted :)

we have some work to do but in a few days we'll show you something

andré ribeiro camargo
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Hongli Lai

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Jun 6, 2012, 8:03:03 AM6/6/12
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:02 PM, André Camargo
<an...@pelotascenter.com.br> wrote:
> challenge accepted :)
>
> we have some work to do but in a few days we'll show you something

Great, looking forward to it! :)

Hongli Lai

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Jun 23, 2012, 5:02:56 AM6/23/12
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:02 PM, André Camargo
<an...@pelotascenter.com.br> wrote:
> challenge accepted :)
>
> we have some work to do but in a few days we'll show you something

Hi Andre. Have you made any progress?

André Camargo

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Jun 23, 2012, 3:48:44 PM6/23/12
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Hongli, I saw Filipe sketching something on Thurday. But we still
didn't finish some tasks for clients and besides that, we're moving
office to another address... So things are a little messy here :)

This week I'll push Filipe on this... ;-)

andré ribeiro camargo
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