I really don’t know what caused it, but when I installed FF3 a while ago it also launched iGlasses. The iSight indicator didn’t turn on, so it might not be a privacy issue, but that’s kinda of freaky nonetheless…
Yes, contrary to popular belief, I’m still alive and so is this blog (barely). I just don’t have time to be on the interwebs as much as I used to.
I’m gonna be moving to ExpressionEngine 2.0 as soon as it is released. WordPress is great, but the fact that EE will be built on top of Code Igniter means I can create my own apps easier without the wrestling match I have with WP every time I try to renew this site (or any other site I’ve built with it in the past). WP is great for blogging and if you have simple requirements, but if you’re like me and are customising/extending it to provide CMS functionality, it can be quite a pain in the ass sometimes. On the other hand, I still greatly prefer using WP as a CMS than Joomla, Xoops, etc. Personally, I prefer getting bare bones functionality and having the option to add on.
With the decision to move (back) to EE, I’ve decided to prepare for the update by moving back to EE 1.6 and I’m creating a new design. (So what else is new? I’ve said that so many times now, but never actually been happy with any design to release it to the public.) Until then, I don’t expect to be writing much here unless there’s something that really must be said. See you after the migration…Whenever that is…Ja!
P.S. Things might be a bit shaky here as I migrate stuff. It’s not called a “sandbox” for nothing.
I have to reformat my HDD again because stupid Adobe PS3 doesn’t install on a case-sensitive system. “WTF?!” you say? Yeah, I’m with ya…
There’s fixes for the problem out there, but unfortunately, I don’t have CS3 installed on my old PB…Maybe I should go do that instead of reformatting. But the problem here is the developers at Adobe. WTF were they thinking by not supporting case-sensitive systems? Maybe it’s just that I had always assumed while programming that case-sensitivity was the norm and case-insensitivity the exception. It’s such a simple concept, but I guess those guys are programming in a world of their own. </rant>
Dan Benjamin recently wrote a post at Hivelogic about how the office environment can impact developer productivity and The Zone. I decided to wait until the end of this week to post a response and my own observations, since our team moved into a new office building last Thursday. This most recent move marks the third time I’ve moved to a different building while working for the same organisation. Starting from a building we lovingly called “The Shed” to the new and very modern offices we have now, each is considerably different from the others.
Continue reading ‘Finding The Zone at work’
Ah, the joys of validating other peoples’ WordPress themes…
This one wasn’t too bad, but there were some issue with the favicon syntax. I didn’t like it anyway, so I got rid of it. Yay! Fixed!
A couple plugins, Run for Cover and Better Blogroll need to have a few code tweaks made before they validate (XHTML 1.0 Transitional). Run for Cover needs to have alt text added to the album images. I just duplicated the code to generate the title and renamed the attribute to ‘alt’. Better Blogroll needs to have the target attribute removed from the link code.
I’d forgotten that you can’t have spaces between paragraphs in the WordPress post editor otherwise it’l warp it in a paragraph. So for the longest time, the W3C Validator kept trying to tell me that I can’t add a h2 header to my posts. Sheesh…
UPDATE (07 Apr @ 23:28): Fixed it. I think it was one of the plugins. I moved them all to a temp/backup directory and re-installed just the ones I needed one by one. I fiddled around with a couple of them to get them to work, but all seems ok now.
Something a bit screwy is going on with the site right now. I can’t seem to access the Dashboard without getting an include error.
That was quick.
The site is now back from a short stay at Site5. The boost in speed was definitely a plus, but losing flexibility in terms of compiling source via SSH is something I’‘m not willing to give up. cPanel was also starting to shit me. I don’t like the way subdomains/pointers are created on the file system. Having them as a subdirectory of the primary domain is really very annoying.
I much prefer DreamHost’s architecture of having each sub-/domain web root in it’‘s own directory under the user root. If you ever wanted to host just 1 website per account, then cPanel’‘s way of doing things might work well for you, but it really doesn’‘t work well for me. I suppose that’‘s what the MultiSite functionality is for, but I really hate having each site under a different user login. At DreamHost, I can access all my sites using my main account login if I wish.
I’ve been with DreamHost since I quit the free web hosting game and Site5 is the only other host I’‘ve tried. Maybe the next step from DreamHost is getting VPS hosting, but I really don’t have time to be patching my webserver every time a fix comes out. Maybe I’ll just have to learn to manage my projects better.
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