For a little while now I’ve been working on a new WordPress theme. Last summer, Bob Greenberger hired me to code a WordPress-powered website for him. It turned out pretty well, and I decided that I would work on a new site for myself. I’d code something, spend a week or two with PHP andContinue reading “On Coding and More Coding”
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On the Coding Itch
Over the weekend, I devoted some time and energy to thinking about what I want to do with my next website. I’ve been working at the code off and on since August, going so far as to code two fully-functional blog themes that I’ll never use. And then, just as I felt really happy withContinue reading “On the Coding Itch”
On Being a Code-Monkey
I spent part of my day at work code-monkeying HTML. I needed to create a table. Not a plain, simple table, not exactly. But a table. With headers. And column spans. This should be simple, right? Wrong. I had a webpage that looked… terrible. (There, that’s a polite word for it.) It needed a completeContinue reading “On Being a Code-Monkey”
On E-Mail Inaccessibility
For the record, I love my e-mail client. I use The Bat. I discovered it, what seems like ten years ago, and didn’t begin to use it regularly (yes, finally abandoning Outlook Express) until about 2001. What I love about The Bat is that it works hard to be secure. And that means that it’sContinue reading “On E-Mail Inaccessibility”
Going to a Concert
Tonight the Barenaked Ladies and Alanis Morissette are playing at Alltel Pavillion here in Raleigh. I have a ticket for lawn seating. The weather forecast looks promising–clear, high temperature in the mid-70s. Should be fun. Joe Keeton, my old college roommate (currently a debate coach for Bronx Science) hailed from New Jersey, by way ofContinue reading “Going to a Concert”
On Word and HTML
I won’t heap any more scorn on MS Word as an HTML generator; the flaws of Word in that regard are fairly well documented. If I have a Word document I want to render in HTML, I save the file to a plain-text file, stripping out every little formatting quirk, and then build the HTMLContinue reading “On Word and HTML”