July 16th, 2008 § § permalink
- This is me playing with my new studio setup
So I wanted to do this post to give a friend a chance to see how WordPress handles this captioning problem, here it is, so disregard as being actual content 
This text is pointless, but I want enough to make sure it wraps and we can see how it handles that…so how was your day? Did you do anything exciting recently? Why do toenails grow so fast?
My daddy once told me that if you write a blog post and it gets too long while also being pointless that you risk killing your readers with boredom or potentially just making them lathargic idiots who only come to your blog because they, like zombies, do not have working brains left and only do what they do out of habit.
Why are zombie movies so popular, and given that they are so popular, why do they still not know to shoot them in the head? If I want to the mall and a zombie came at me, I would go straight for the head. Maybe people in zombie movies don’t have cable.
Cable is way to expensive, I like Hulu.
June 13th, 2008 § § permalink
I decided today to make a Vista theme for my blog. I started with a screen shot of Outlook, and opened it in Adobe Photoshop and started simplifying it. Once I had the basics of what I wanted, I had a single flat jpg that looked something like this…
I brought it into back into Photoshop and made a couple slices to create a top header, top fade, repeat fade and footer image, as well as a background fade, and I was able to get started with some html and css.
I laid out the elements and got it all working before I installed WordPress on my local wampserver and began integrating it into the “default” template.
I spent about an hour adding all of the formatting for the WordPress generated content to the css file I created when I sliced the image up, and within about 4 hours, give or take, I had it as you see now, well as long as now is June 13th. I am sure I will tweak it more tomorrow and throughout the weekend getting it just how I want.
But there you have it, a tribute to Vista as a WordPress theme. I want my blog to be a bit unique so I won’t release this out for everyone, although I may make a pink twist on it for Dawngrrl.com.
Hope you like it, and if you are a Mac or Linux fanboy, get over it…I work for Microsoft, remember?
May 19th, 2008 § § permalink
Imagine being able to upload a photo to flickr at the same time you use it in your blog.
It uploads the thumb to WordPress and the actual photo to your flickr account….fancy…. leave a comment for details, it’ exists…
March 31st, 2008 § § permalink
upgrading my site to WordPress 2.5, please be patient with the spartan appearance.
Update Update… MS won’t let me FTP from inside the network so I will be on this less than exciting template and plugin-less environment till I get home today.
March 4th, 2008 § § permalink
It used to be that if you wanted to run WordPress, you wanted a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) Server. You could get it working on Internet Information Server but it wasn’t the best and there were definitely issues to be dealt with.
Trouble yourself no more! Zend Technologies, and the “Zend Platform” have taken the PHP core and added performance and stability. The Zend Core commercially supported flavor of PHP has now been certified to run on Windows Server 2008.
This should be of specific interest to many I have seen recently asking about running WordPress on Windows.
From itnews.com:
For example, Zend worked with Microsoft’s FastCGI component for its Web server, IIS, to make FastCGI set up and run PHP applications efficiently. The IIS Web server is now built into Windows 2008, and the two companies made certain the PHP interface to FastCGI worked smoothly, Gutmans said in an interview.
Zend’s PHP now supports CardSpace, Microsoft’s identity management system, so users of PHP applications may gain online services after being authenticated and awarded the proper privilege level. The Windows 2008 certification also means Windows as well as Linux servers can be expected to host such PHP applications as the Mambo Web site content management system or the WordPress blog publishing system, Gutmans said.
Previously, PHP “didn’t run as well as it should on Windows,” said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations. When they deployed their Windows-based applications to production, their performance was disappointing and they tended to develop on Windows and deploy under Unix or Linux. Now the three platforms should be available on a more equal footing, he said.
The two companies have started work on a SQL Server driver for Zend Core that will make interfacing PHP Web applications to SQL Server a more straightforward task, Gutmans said.
