Learning Style
I am very much a self-taught learner. My preferred learning style is to sit down with the subject at hand, a relevant task, a stack of reference manuals, and plenty of time to just hack my way through...
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If my previous “aside”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/?p=247#respond had you a bit confused, I was celebrating my success at _finally_ being able to get a new hack to work. I’ve often had cause to write...
View ArticleTag Filters
I’ve a feature request for all you php ninjas out there, particularly those of you who develop plugins that do strange and wonderful things with tagging: How about making the ability to tag posts in...
View ArticleFoS Redesigned
I’ve just finished a complete site redesign on “Flashes of Speculation”:http://open-dialogue.com/fs, giving it what is, I hope, a unique and attractive layout. I built this template – called...
View ArticleCode Geek
I am a WordPress god! Ok, not really, but I _am_ enjoying the fact that I can now manipulate a WP theme pretty easily. It’s true – the more you use CSS, the more you play around with web design, the...
View ArticleResetting HTML
I’ve recently discovered the wonderfully marked-up “Sandbox”:http://plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox theme for WordPress and, in so doing, discovered the inspiration to build another theme for myself. But I...
View ArticleBit by the Coding Bug
I’m getting my inner geek on – again. I spent the majority of my day today trying to figure out how to crosspost from WordPress to MySpace. I’d found a “hack that looked like it had...
View ArticleLearning PHP
I’m sandboxing PHP today (not to be confused with playing with the “Sandbox”:http://plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox theme from the fine folks over at “plaintxt.org”:http://plaintxt.org), working on...
View ArticleFiclatte, Code, and Making Use of All This Free Time
For the last three or four weeks, I’ve been coding away feverishly. This, by itself, is notable. I haven’t had the energy or the mental focus to work on any project like this for so long in a very long...
View ArticleLittle Black Boxes
The refactoring of Ficlatte has begun. I don’t expect this to mean anything to any of you, not even the ones who frequent the site on a regular basis. The work I’m doing right now is 100% completely...
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