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Leaving the Nest

This past week it was proposed and not shot down in flames that my first foray into a Habari theme, mzingi , intended as a simple, image free theme to be used as a foundation for building proper themes, should be included into the core download of Habari.

I was humbled and honored to say the least, and so from here on out, all development for this project will be maintained by the community.

Thanks to all who’ve helped, and shared their appreciation for it’s intended purpose, and I trust the community will continue to use it for creating full fledged themes. Feels a little odd, but satisfying at the same time.

Leaving the Nest was published on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 12:09pm and tagged Habari, open source, theme and mzingi. Share your thoughts by commenting on this article.

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6 Responses to Leaving the Nest

skippy of http://skippy.net/

Congrats, miklb! Your contribution to and continued participation with Habari is greatly appreciated. We’re lucky to have you involved.

Posted at April 30, 2008 on 12:36pm

miklb of http://miklb.com/

Thanks skippy. The feeling is more than mutual.

Posted at April 30, 2008 on 2:15pm

Rick Cockrum of http://sagrising.cockrumpublishing.com/

Congratulations! Mzingi is a great edition to Habari’s system themes. Thanks for creating and contributing it.

Posted at April 30, 2008 on 2:55pm

Michael C. Harris of http://twofishcreative.com/michael/blog

Nice work, miklb! When I ported my first theme I used mzingi as a reference, and it was incredibly helpful. I’ve thanked you before, I thank you again, and I’m sure it won’t be the last time. Thank you.

Posted at April 30, 2008 on 7:38pm

miklb of http://miklb.com/

Thank you Rick and Michael, I’m very pleased to know that it’s intention has served its purpose, and will hopefully help others continue to build a growing repository of designs for Habari. I’m really looking forward to seeing it evolve with the communities help.

Habari has been such a monumentally life changing experience, and I pinch myself almost daily for having the opportunity to be around such a diverse, knowledgeable and inviting community.

Posted at April 30, 2008 on 8:32pm

mikelietz of http://mikelietz.org/whine/

Gratz, as the kids these days say.

Posted at May 2, 2008 on 9:16am

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I’m always on the prowl for cheap (read FREE) iPhone apps, and finding a simple source for such is no easy task, at least in my searches. Unfortunately, all the sites I’ve found that cover this type of information are so full of ads and poorly designed, it’s impossible to actually find anything useful. I have however recently discovered at dealmac.com a RSS feed specifically for discounted iPhone/iPod Touch apps.. I can’t say that I’ve actually found any great deals yet through it, (I haven’t had a chance to play the recent “Let’s Golf!” game posted today), but it’s a start. And don’t get me wrong, I have no problem paying for a quality app, and do so with perhaps too regular of frequency, but still like finding a deal when I can, especially on games, which I know I’ll only play a few times, or very rarely.
Do you have any sites or feeds that you’d care to share? Tips on finding apps on sale?
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I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon by a comment left here on the site that my first Habari theme, Mzingi, had been ported to another CMS, WolfCMS. Though I’ve since passed Mzingi off to the official Habari project, and is now owned by the community and part of the official download, it’s a bit rewarding to see it deemed worthy of porting. You can see a demo of it in action as a WolfCMS theme.
It’s also nice they gave attribution on the official site. I’d not heard of the project before, seems like a young project that is a fork of another CMS project, but their site describes the project as something akin to Habari.
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It’s always great to see new themes released for Habari, even if they are ports. Florian has ported the WordPress theme Clean Home to Habari. The theme’s name aptly describes the design, a clean, black and white two column design with contrasting red headings. The theme seems to be coded for trunk, that is, using the areas feature. One thing I noticed is that the theme still has some cruft from WP, calling for a dynamic sidebar (widgets) with some text that also references a text widget and and admin options. I of all people can understand though of wanting to get something out before working out all the kinks, so I’m sure he’ll update it as soon as the areas/blocks feature is fleshed out a bit more. I also don’t speak German, so it’s quite possible he references that in the post announcing the release.
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You’d think “Canada’s best magazine”, The Walrus would at least link back to my bookmarks if they are going to use my graphics in their post about Infinite Summer. Heck, they didn’t even change the name of the image from the 5x bookmark file. Real professional Nav, real professional…
At least they didn’t just hotlink to the image in my post.
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The first, Firefinder, is a handy tool to “find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression”.
The second is one that Google previously used internally. Today they open sourced it and released, Page Speed. Page Speed allows developers to “evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.”
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