The last few weeks have been absorbed in some freelance work for a local marketing company, which is a nice change of pace. But that also means I’ve not been able to get at my new pet project in that time, which has been a bit of a downer. And since that new project is CakePHP driven and I’m only really learning the platform, time away from the project means knowledge lost or at least deeply buried. That makes getting back into it something of a challenge. And indeed, I took the better part of the last two days figuring [...]
OK, so I’ve completed what is, for all intents and purposes, the first official broadcast of The Flight of the Dragonfly. How do I think it went? Well, I had seven listeners during the show. Considering the fact that I’ve done about 0 advertising, that’s not too bad, actually. RochesterTurning.com arguably did more (thanks, guys!) There were some technical glitches on BTR’s end (for some reason, I could not call into my phone number for five critical minutes of the show!), but they got worked out and the show started. Strange, but I felt a bit more self-conscious than I [...]
Just popping my head into the blog to jot down a quick suggestion for you bloggers out there. If you sometimes feel like you’re completely weighed down by the sheer volume of feeds you need to read (or, believe you need to read), I have a potential solution for you: checkout Bloglines and their “Playlists” option for reading your news. With playlists, you can have a panel of the five most recent posts for each blog you put into a given playlist, which then get arranged into tiles. You can move your stuff around however you like so that the [...]
So, it took nine days, but it finally happened: someone has left a comment on the DragonFlyEye.Net blog looking for my JavaScript Animated Collapsing Categories Widget to be usable for Links as well. For those of you who are not aware, the new version of WordPress changes the way Links work slightly, by making Links Categories part of the Categories table of the database. That means that my plugin could potentially be used for Links, but as it sits, that’s not the way it works. In fact, it works with 2.1, but it’s a bit wonky. So, I’ve avoided upgrading [...]
UPDATE: About that whole “Customizable Dashboard,” thing, someone already beat me to it, but I seconded the motion as well. Good! I hope this idea gains some traction and we get what we want. In the meanwhile, I’m about to go check out “Dasher,” a plugin I found that’s supposed to do the same thing. The WP Development Blog has announced a couple of new features for the WordPress world, WordPress Ideas and WordPress Kvetch, both aimed at more directly responding to the needs of WordPressers of the world. One is to suggest things, and the other is to complain [...]
Just as I start this new blog, boom! There’s the latest WordPress release. It’s supposed to have a bunch of security holes patched along with a few other bugs fixed, but I haven’t had a chance to look at the update manifest yet. I’m hoping as always that they will fix the header errors when posting, but we shall see about that. Also, I get another header error when trying to delete draft posts, but I haven’t had a chance to look into that too deeply. Over at the DFE development site, I’ve managed to make quite a bit of [...]
The new Holistic Networking blog is now officially launched, and I feel like a proud papa! Well, OK, minor exaggeration. The point is: I’ve created the new blog. Why did I do this? Well, because there are things about webdesign and such that I want to talk about which don’t make any sense on my regular blog, DragonFlyEye.Net. Sure, there’s a technology section, but that’s meant for tech politics, not just discussing the finer points of code and design. For that, I’ll need a whole different space. And here I am! Plus, too, if I ever get around to releasing [...]
