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IE8">Fixing nickhodge.com (quickly) for IE8

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Inter­net Explorer 8 beta 2 has been released. The night before a big PR thing in Mel­bourne (Premier of Vic­toria, etc) and I decided to install it on my demo laptop. Brave, yet safe move.
What about this web­site?
Not so good. Some­thing is broken some­where. In the week before TechEd 2008 I don’t have time to completely […]

Hunting Wordpress Themes

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Time to change themes on this site.
I have a simple request: White-space is king, single left hand nav­ig­a­tion with fluid right-hand con­tent column. Tweak­ing the typo­graphy to look bril­liant is more import­ant than whizzy graph­ics detract­ing the eye.
As @evilsue says on twit­ter: “have reskinned blog.….again.…its the poor girls sub­sti­tute for buy­ing shoes”
So, with these demands in mind […]

CAN HAS WORDPRESS 2.3">I CAN HAS WORDPRESS 2.3

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Don’t know if stuff is broken. Installed 10 minutes after ship­ment. Just unzip, drag and drop. FTP. Upgrade. Done.
Tech­nor­ati Tags: lolcats

De-commissioning old Content Management System

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Notes from De-commissioning old Con­tent Man­age­ment Sys­tem: The Mun­gen­etEn­gine. The engine has rendered 10 mil­lion image views and 2.5 mil­lion page views from hand­coded MySQL and PHP.

cod­ing” in PHP feels wrong, wrong, wrong. A little dirty. After 6 months, I feel I should be writ­ing in C#, Iron­Py­thon; at least some­thing decent. Not PHP. It’s too […]

Mungenet Blogging Platform version 5.0

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

The blog­ging plat­form his­tory of Mun­genet:
Ver­sion 1.0: self-coded User­land Fron­tier, ver­sion 2.0: Radio User­land, ver­sion 3.0: blogger.com, ver­sion 4.0: (self coded) mun­gen­eten­gine.
Today, I’ve moved onto plat­form ver­sion 5.0: Word­Press
Rather than re-coding a blog­ging engine to take into account all the Web 2.0 re/write hot­ness — mov­ing to Word­Press was a part-time pro­ject over the space […]