Archive for the tag "coding"

• If you say “CSS” fast enough, it sounds like you’re saying “thank you” in Chinese. Things that make you go “hmmm”… #

• Learning Markdown, not that there’s much to learn. Installed the plugin for WP, now checking to make sure it’s not screwing up older posts. #
• “Bluish Bells” live in Toulouse… http://tinyurl.com/5o3xtr #
• The internet is lots of fun today. Just uploaded my old demos album to Last.fm. Might as well. http://tinyurl.com/59jchq #

• Collapsing margins and broken box models suck a capuchin monkey’s musty ass with Hoisen sauce! #

Awhile back I started thinking I ought to sharpen my skills in web design. At first I thought I should learn PHP, so I started a book on that, but abandoned it when I realized I really needed to backtrack a bit. So I started one on Javascript and guess what, I abandoned that one too for being just an eensy bit over my head. I knew I had to shore up my knowledge of HTML and CSS, which sucks because that’s supposedly what I know best! I’ve been using HTML for frickin’ 15 years but I’m self-taught, and only ever really learned what I had to.

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• @nata2 & friends posted a fine new coders wiki. Check it next time you have to make a for loop in 21 languages. http://nocruft.com/wiki/ #

• Meteorites for Sale (via Unreal Real)
• Reading "Javascript Demystified". Seems a good place for me to start: I’m aiming to be a real coder when I grow up, not just a markup hag. #
• Skeezix Coloring Book
• Apparently in my version of Javascript, 2 plus 2 always equals 22. That just makes me mad. #

• I’m getting better at making forms. Again! In 14 years of HTMLing I’ve only had to make a few of them so it’s hard to retain that know-how. #
• Hymn to the Fallen
• Google Talkabout: Google Talk chatback (via Harper)
• I just added Google Talk chatback to my website. I’m not into idle chatter though, so it might bug me after 5 minutes. We’ll see. #
• Record Runner

• Looking for a lifestream plugin for WP that’ll pull my twits etc. into the db, which I’m currently doing by hand. Most of them just cache. #
• @jennatar: That’s one of the ones I’m looking at, yep. :-) Also WP-Autoblog & WP-o-Matic #
• @jennatar: works for me in GReader. #
• @jennatar: the url google decided to use is like so: http://tinyurl.com/2l6wn7 #
• @jennatar: view source? perhaps your browser isn’t set up to directly view rss feeds #
• @jennatar: How come I can see it then? maybe run it through a validator #
• No progress on the lifestreaming thing, but I do have nicer pagination! I’m going with a lateral approach, heheh. #
• Can raccoons open windows? Because one is trying to do that right now, dammit. #
• I have a new friend who’s a fabulously talented mosaic artist. Check it out. http://flickr.com/photos/ca… #

• How to Write a WordPress Plugin
• Adding Administration Menus « WordPress Codex
• If Jeanette Sliwinski Goes Free, That Would be Insane (via Chicagoist)
• (I’m a dumbass.) #

• WordPress Plugin Generator. Cute.
• Morning Recordings - The Welcome Kinetic (via So This Is What The Volume Knob’s For)
• My WordPress category hack

• I bought "Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes." What that title means: Don’t read it now! Wait a little bit, THEN read. For a very long time. #