Orangescale Blog

Having New Challenge

Thomas Arie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:24:58 +0000

In 2007, I had my friend Hanifa contacted me to help her with (at that time) her personal site called Fashionese Daily. At that time, I haven’t known who she was. One thing I knew was that she had a blog and she wanted to move it into something different. It was using Blogspot service. [...]

Do you like the situation when you’re right?

Thomas Arie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:15:20 +0000

Here’s an illustration: You learn about web technologies like design, content management systems, social media. At the same time, you also study some of those subjects deeper. It makes you understand and sometime you can make a small prediction about what will happen next if you use certain strategies (in one of those technologies). You help [...]

Hello Texta Theme

Thomas Arie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:33:13 +0000

Let’s make this post short. When I worked on my blog in Bahasa Indonesia, I decided to use a simple theme. I don’t want to use too many images. Then, I created a theme. A simple theme. I realized that I haven’t created any single free theme this year — or may be last year. Now, [...]

How to Send Your Web Designer to Hell?

Thomas Arie — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:21:31 +0000

When I have someone who wanted to ask our service and it’s related to web design (blog, sites, etc), we don’t just start the work right away. I usually spend my times and steal client’s time to have some discussion about the project. Usually, I ask few things: What kind of website you want to have, [...]

MediaTemple’s (gs) PHP Injection Exploit

Thomas Arie — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:13:04 +0000

I’m not sure when this problem firstly noted. I just found it today. I don’t have a personal account at MediaTemple’s (gs), but I do maintain an account — with some sites installed under it. MediaTemple reported: Starting Nov 6, 2009, we noticed many customers reporting a new php injection exploit. If you feel that your sites [...]

A New Lifestream Domain

Thomas Arie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:25:17 +0000

Last month, I bought a new domain. Unlike my other domains, this time I have domain with my own name: thomasarie.com. When I firstly registered it, I didn’t have any intention to create another blog. I already have too many. My plan was to create a lifestream. The term lifestream was coined by Eric Freeman and [...]

The Importance of Uptime and Performance

Thomas Arie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:43:19 +0000

I don’t have very large/busy personal sites to handle right now. To be more specific, I don’t use publishing platform optimization techniques too much. In the last few months, I need to work/deal with something what we all call “optimization”. At the moment, I maintain busy sites powered by WordPress and vBulletin. My responsibility is to [...]

Jogja Wall Nation Photos (on Flickr)

Thomas Arie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:10:35 +0000

Finally, we’ve just finished uploading hundreds of photos from Jogja Wall Nation event. This is related to my previous post, about our involvement in this event. We’re responsible for the event publishing strategy and management. It’s not only preparing the website for the event, managing all contents and writing updates — yes, we published tons [...]

WordPress Theme: With or Without Widgets

Thomas Arie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:49:39 +0000

I like WordPress and its templating system so far. For many WordPress users, WordPress’ widgets features in theme might be something useful. Especially, for those who do not want to deal with template tags or confusing lines of codes. Personally, when I create WordPress themes for my own sites, I rarely — almost never — [...]

Dear Sony Ericsson, I Canceled My Survey Participation

Thomas Arie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:30:49 +0000

Today, I received an email from Sony Ericsson. The email invites me to participate on a survey. Since I was free at that time, and I was a litle bit bored, I decided to take the survey. If the survey was boring, I can stop at any time, right? Dear Thomas Arie, What matters to you matters [...]