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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
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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 [...]

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 [...]