Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

chronicling life in a digital world

Updating the Sidebar

Well, I’ve been slowly updating the sidebar, rearranging the order, added the recent visitor plugin as well as the recent del.icio.us links. If you are not familiar with Del.icio.us, they call themselves a “social bookmark manager”. Basically, it allows you to book mark a site while you are surfing, and then access the bookmark via the net, versus just the browser. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers, or are away from your machine, you can still find the site. Likewise, you can share them via a RSS feed. So, I just started using it, but ultimately, it will show the most recent. The default is 15, and once I reach that number, I’ll see how it looks in the sidebar, and decide if I want to add more. I’m really thinking about changing the header, any feedback about the current one?

Updating the sidebar was published on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 8:37pm and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

New Sidebar Coming Soon

I am on a quest to research some of those 139 Wordpress themes over at Alex Kings site, and weave together a side bar I like. Not that anyone is visiting yet, but by god, when they do, it will be snazzy. I really want to change the header image as well, the image is just a little, well, blurry.

New Sidebar coming soon was published on Sunday, March 27, 2005 at 9:46pm and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

New Colors, Etc

Well, it took a lot of time searching, (to no avail), and a few posts over at Wordpress, but ultimately it was my own banging of my head to realize the drop shadow was my problem. anyway, I’ve changed up the page colors, and now I want to do a new header img, as the img just doesn’t work with the new color scheme (not that that is written in stone.). This is just a blast though, and I can’t wait to do more of it.

New colors, etc was published on Saturday, March 19, 2005 at 10:19am and tagged design, my-site and wordpress. There is currently one comment to this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Hello World! Part Duex

So actually, this is take 3. As I can’t seem to get it right. Suffice to say with the help of several others, and some deleting of posts, I was able to get the site to load properly.

Hello world! Part Duex was published on Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 6:07pm and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

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Just a guy wandering the intarwebs looking to make sense of life.

Watching my cousin get married over the web. Ain't technology grand.

Side Notes

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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I’ve recently been using Safari 4 beta, mostly because I had been too lazy to get more RAM, and Firefox was just too damn slow with all the apps I’d have open on only 1 gig. Now that I’m at 4 gigs, I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox, especially with the comments I’ve been reading about the speed improvements of the next version (3.5??). Another reason I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox is that Firebug is just far superior to Safari’s built in inspector. To that end, I’ve recently come across two add-ons for Firebug.
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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Theme Development

I have moved all of my theme development to Beanstalk. If you would like to check out the full svn repository, you can checkout from http://blogworks.svn.beanstalkapp.com/themes.