Construction Notes

08 Jul 2007 1141H

Construction Notes 5: Integration

It’s time for integration. For those unfamiliar with the web dev process, we’ll use construction metaphors. All the electricity, the plumbing, the data, the climate systems, all the things that make a building do things? They are generally handled by developers in the form of code or, if you will, that antiquated term, programs. (more…)

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06 Jul 2007 2344H

Construction Notes 4: Prototyping, Pre-Integration

It seems to be holding together. (more…)

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06 Jul 2007 2100H

Construction Notes 3: Setting up the CSS

5 hrs to do a first pass set up of the CSS and get everything to just about where I want it to be. (more…)

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06 Jul 2007 0008H

Construction Notes 2: Blueprints, First Draft

Flushed with success on moving the sidebar to the left, I proceeded to do some layout. Realistically, no one is going to care about the sodding layout because they’re subscribed to the RSS feed, but it’s an exercise and it’s overdue.
After looking at the content, I dinked around with Illustrator for a few hours tonight [...]

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05 Jul 2007 1056H

Construction Notes 1

It’s been about a year since I left my last firm; a little bit over a year actually, which was the last time I really played around with WordPress. And, it’s almost been a year since I’ve had this public blog. It’s been a little over four years since I started blogging seriously, but this [...]

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01 Jul 2007 1826H

Road work ahead: eating my own dog food

In Chicago there are two seasons: winter, and construction.
This blog is no different.
When you stop to think about it, the default WordPress template called Kubrick, while nice-ish, leaves a lot to be desired. If you look at how the sidebar is coded too, it really could be a lot cleaner and not as nested [...]

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24 Jun 2007 1343H

Upgrading to WordPress 2.21

All hands, stand by for some chop ahead.
Trying to get a half-dozen things done today before heading out this week to the Motor City and the City of Fountains.
Replaced most of the files, probably tackle the rest tonight.

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12 Apr 2007 1307H

Update: making better use of del.icio.us

So in the process of keeping up with all the articles I didn’t read in the last two weeks, I remembered a better way to keep track of them, as Scott Weisbrod of Critical Mass does on his blog, Experience Planner as “Weekly Linkage.”
See, when you publish a feed via FeedBurner, you also can [...]

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26 Feb 2007 0312H

BitTorrent has gone legit, and other news

No thanks to a snow and ice storm that delayed my 8:40PM flight out of Midway till 10PM, sat in the gate for an hour, and de-icing took another one, so we didn’t get into KCMO till 1, and not in my hotel until 2. There was a lady sitting a row back who literally [...]

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27 Nov 2006 2114H

Mint is installed

and I’m seeing some interesting things here. Like any good IA I look to server query logs in order to gain insights on users. So far, it appears people come here looking for info on the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident and when they Google for Gutierrez, Harold Washington, and Council Wars. Which is nice, [...]

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