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A little here and there

My blog has been acting up the whole of last week – which is why I haven’t been able to post about the other mundane stuff I’ve been up to.

Some geek shit

I had just upgraded the core WordPress engine, and for some reason, my index page won’t display articles. All other pages work though. There was nothing wrong with my code; and I don’t say this arrogantly, but because I tried plugging my code to a default template and it worked flawlessly. (Of course it did… why shouldn’t it? Ok that was a tad arrogant 😉 hehehe.)

Anyways, I had the time to sort it out today after finishing work. Turns out the new version wouldn’t play nice with concurrent database connections like the older one did. 1 my peer list, and social network icons, are stored in another database Anyways, nothing that a simple mysql_select_db(); switch couldn’t fix. So back to regular programming Read More

Notes

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⇡1 my peer list, and social network icons, are stored in another database
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WordPress plug-in hacks

I’ve been meaning to post this ever since I transitioned to the new blog.

I’ve already explained in another post the frustrations I have with regards to the approach of WordPress plugins 1 How “snobbishly self-contained they tend to perform, etc.

This post however is to assert that despite all these “limitations” there is one developer that seems to have found an awesome workaround – and if people just get on board with his plugin architecture, most of the “silly issues” plaguing WP plugins could be solved.

So yeah, I guess this post is more of an evangelical one to [hopefully] give more exposure to Mr. Rob Marsh SJ and his extremely versatile Post-Plugin Library. Read More

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⇡1 How “snobbishly self-contained they tend to perform, etc.
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Blog redesign finished!

Version 7.0 is practically done. I just have to put some minor tweaks and apply the template to the rest of the site (music section, etc.) But as far as the blog goes, it’s a done deal.

Although I know RSS is basically a more efficient way of reading blogs, and that those people who are actually savvy enough to be reading multiple CMS(ish) type systems probably just aggregate their content via RSS readers (hence rendering any design of an updated site useless); I still went on ahead with changing the look.

I guess deep down, I still want people to visit the actual pages once in a while and see the layout of the posts in all their glory. After all, RSS readers have their own stylesheets applied to the content, so you get a very uniform look for all the sites you read from – which pretty much strips the sites from their personalities. I designed the new look to be easy on the eyes and (hopefully) a pleasurable experience for visitors and readers alike. Not to mention the fact that there are a bunch of features in the site that can never be replicated on an RSS reader. Read More

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Nargalzius v7?

I’ve been fiddling around once again with my source code and have come up with a working alpha of what I think I want v7 to look like. I say alpha because I only just did the blog index page… and even that isn’t complete.

Anyways here’s what it will look like (hopefully)

A bunch of paradigm shifts have taken place – one is, of course, the fact that I’m starting to not care about 800×600 anymore. When surfing on the net, there is so much real-estate on the current websites that looking at my 800×600 friendly site gives me a really ancient feeling.

I don’t know when the new version will be up – I still don’t have a new header/footer for the site (not to mention container graphics to encapsulate the whole thing). Then when I’m done with that, I’m gonna have to redo all the context-sensitive formatting stylesheet for blog postings (like how a quote or code will look like). Then when I’m done with that, I’ll have to start thinking of ways to fit the new, wide layout to the gallery or music page.

Just thinking about them makes me want to give up.

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Ecto revisited…

Ecto

My previous post was commented by the Ecto developer himself… and as such, I thought it only be fair to immediately reevaluate the said software… plus of course I was excited as hell to try his suggestions out.

So now, I’m posting via Ecto, I’ve seen the edit mode he was talking about (I couldn’t imagine how I missed that). And upon posting this, I will try his other suggestion of selecting the category while publishing to specify the primary category.

If all goes well, then I guess that’s that… I will now be an official Ecto user. Read More