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Feature List

WordPress 3.1 was supposed to come out last week, but they haven’t even put out a release candidate yet. Still, I’m pretty psyched for the features. At work I maintain a 35 node multisite install that probably going to grow to 40 here soon. The WP3.1 admin bar, very Drupalesque, will making managing them that [...]

Custom Post Types and Post Taxonomy

I’m not a programmer and never have been. In high school I dabbled with PERL, possibly the most idiosyncratic of the popular scripting languages. I still hold a certain fondness for PERL, but year by year I find fewer reasons to bother with it. Later in college, I made a few abortive attempts to learn [...]

WordPress.StackExchange

Another busy week, but there’s apparently a Stack Exchange forum dedicated to wordpress. Greatness incarnate! Best find so far: Collection of Code for your functions.php file Enjoy

Quick – stuff to do!

Note 1: setting up a Centos Ruby on Rails box isn’t nearly as easy as I was hoping. In fact, it’s downright miserable. The problem, as usual, lies with the fact that Centos sticks to its schedule of updated software which is a good few years behind what’s currently out there and generally standard. Ruby, [...]

Ruby on Rails Prelude

Because I’m a sucker for projects that I don’t actually have time for – I’ve started trying to teach myself Ruby on Rails. I don’t actually have anything to say about that just yet, but this guide has been tremendously helpful. My inspiration was fairly simple. I haven’t coded anything new in quite some time. [...]

Color Palette Designer

Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy - this is great – busy, busy, busy…

Imprints

I just returned from a brief tour/introduction of Random House, the publishing firm. One of the major set of divisions with Random House, and other large publishing houses, is the imprint. An Imprint is a ‘personality’ of books that are accepted, edited, published, and marketed similarly by a unified group of professionals. The idea is [...]

Debug Queries, Debug Objects

The most powerful feature of wordpress, drupal, joomla etc is the ability to provide extremely complex functionality with a bare minimum of training, technical resources, or time. Things that would otherwise take days of labor by highly trained administrators, can be done in minutes or hours by nearly anyone. More specifically, dozens, hundreds, thousands of [...]

AwkwardEmails.com

Egad! I never mentioned my latest ‘project’. Before it’s too late – AwkwardEmails.com. What is awkwardemails.com? Simple. It’s a joke that I turned into an actual website. The genesis went something like this: “This email is taking me forever. I wish I didn’t have to write this shit.” “Would you pay money for someone else [...]

New Font

Welcome to Graeblau Web Font. I really like it for the headers – for the text I’m undecided. Since adding new fonts is really the funnest part of web-design (for me) here are some useful links. Base overview of adding fonts to a website: The key is the @font-face property which allows you to define [...]