Category: Technical Folly
Big is the new black
Ev noted: Love this blog design! (I like big buttons, too.) Big buttons? Ev, so do we!... (more...)
Geek happy
Although I have a few off-line personal justifications for not being so, I'm actually in a good mood today. Some possible reasons for why that ... (more...)
When Regular Expressions Attack
I'm currently re-reading Mastering Regular Expressions (which due to events no longer recalled, I own 2 copies of). The purpose of the re-read ... (more...)
Snippet of a technical conversation
...from some years back, and which just came to me: Kaf (jokingly): I figured out that the 'P' in PHP stands for Pox. Co-worker (from Sales): Is ... (more...)
The technical dealies
Knowing where you're headed is no guarantee a trip will go well. But the drive can still be fun... For the past 2+ days I'd been ... (more...)
Documenting the documenters
You may not know this, but I've been spending a bit of my not-so-valuable yet still not-unlimited spare time working on the *new* online documentation ... (more...)
WP resource: Quick & Dirty PHPSource Printer
Before going public with the return of guff, I played in WordPress for a few weeks offline, to get comfortable and decide which features I wanted to put to use. During that time I worked over and reworked some WordPress plugins. It's how I like to get into trouble. And I rolled a few plugins of my own. Not examples of brilliant PHP programming mind you, but they work well enough that I've implemented them on guff. I'll be releasing the latest one to the wild (the first is a simple random "quote" utility, and I see no need for yet one more of those under a GPL). As I thought over how best to present my plugin, I decided I wanted the source on-site in prettified syntax highlighting for that cool factor, as well as stashed away in a zip file for easy download. In regards to the former, one option is to link to it as a PHP Source file (phps). Sadly, the server guff sits on isn't configured for it. Yeah, I'm bugging my provider, Ok? Another method is yet another plugin that can automagically generate syntax highlighting for me within a post. But if I want to output the code so one can actually read and copy it, I chance playing havoc with my layout, and that's not a Good Thing™. Even solving that, posting code in a blog post is best left for code fragments, and not several hundred lines of an entire script. That deserves it's own uncluttered page. (more...)
Behind the scenes at guff
A week after going public with guff here on szubNet, and I've already overhauled the back-end. No serious maintenance mind you, but noticeable (if you notice such things). Using a publishing system like WordPress for my blogging needs means I have a number of options in how to organize, display and maintain guff. As an example, the default URI to a post, category or whatnot is what WP gurus refer to (so I've learned) as 'crufty', a bare-bones hyperlink denoting little more than a query to the database where WordPress stores site content. The cruft version of a link to this post is: /index.php?p=945 (more...)
Supermod[el]s
Now these systems will get your geek going. That is, if you have enough geek to go for them. Who wouldn't want a pc ... (more...)
HTML lección de hoy
Tbogg (or TBOGG...never sure about the caps on that one) in a recent post notes he's sorry for being unable to produce the ... (more...)
Two guys walking
Thirty-four years ago this week, two human beings scrabbled down a ladder standing nearly two hundred and thirty-nine thousand miles away from their home ... (more...)
In a former, more technically-oriented creative life
In a former, more technically-oriented creative life, today would have me going graphic geek crazy. So how do I see this event since putting ... (more...)