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Elements of Great Web Design: The Polish
I’m not an expert designer. In fact, most of the time I feel inadequate when it comes to picking colors, layouts, and other features that a designer usually takes care of. All my design has to do with interfaces, classes, schema, and other back end technology that most people can’t see.
In the mean [...]
Programming a client for the WHOIS protocol
I have a little task that involves programmatically determining whether DNS servers are set correctly for a domain. Since this project is written in Python, I first set out to see if there were any “whois” clients already available for Python. I eventually found rwhois.py, which is a whois client with recursive [...]
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3 and the New Built-in Tagging Feature
I’ve barely completed an upgrade to Wordpress 2.3. Out of many new improvements, one which stood out to me is the integrated tagging support. No longer, is it necessary to download one of the many tagging plugins.
Some things I noticed during the upgrade:
My existing tagging plugin broke at the time of [...]
Pardon my dust
I found that my theme was not working correctly in Internet Explorer (Gee, imagine that.)
Rather than search for another, I’ve decided to tweak it myself. Pardon my lack of styles for a bit.
Edit There. I’ve created a new template, based on my old template’s stylesheet, that uses YUI Grids instead of [...]
My New Bookmark Widget
Ok, I found a widget that could replace the bookmark widget by simply allowing a customizable interface to the wp_list_bookmarks function. This is a highly customizable function that not only lets you grab all the bookmarks, but allows customization of how they are displayed. The widget gives you an interface that lets you [...]
Wordpress and Caching
I just installed the plugin wp-cache. I’m not sure why more Wordpress users don’t enable this. From the Wp-Cache description:
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future [...]