Some of the things recommended by the author on this list are plain weird but at least they’ll give you some ideas too!
Author Archives: Donncha
WordPress, Smarty and Multi-Blogs
My Smarty powered and mult-blog capable version of WordPress is now running on this site. It’s not perfect at all, but I have a simple script that exports the current blogs here to the WP table format. This blog content lives there already!
I really need to get Smarty caching going soon however!
Link coming in a few days, but TBH, it’s simple to find if you think about it 🙂
Later … Caching’s working, based on URL and user_ID, WordPress developers, is that enough to key the cache by? Also figured out that I need to sanitize_title() all my post titles into post_name before permalinks will work! Doh!
Yum, Yum, delicious links, and others from a fevered mind
Barry Mason actually makes the Dublin Spire look interesting! A feat in and of itself, but he has some other great photos on his site.
Bonus Print could be the cheapest online digital photo service in Ireland now that Spectra Photo have upped their prices.
The Top 10 Digital Photography Mistakes – Silly, obvious mistakes, but I do some of them, maybe you do. Yes, that is microsoft.com that I’m linking to!
Normalization Rules – I fell asleep doing this stuff at college, now I find it insanely interesting, how crazy is that?
A Modern Herbal – I’ve taken a keen interest in my health over the last few weeks. If your stomach’s healthy, then all other things being equal and well you’ll feel good. Must glance at later.
Ouch! – someone looking for attention?
Crazy UI development here. WTF looks like it deserves a return visit!
Information Routing – The first paragraph grabbed me.
Producing Quality CSS in a Team Environment – must read.
delicious mp3 has lots of music orientated links. Some to harvest later!
House Owners – DIY!
Everyone else can probably ignore this, or use the search engine here whenever you buy your house! The Handyman USA – Articles look like a great mine of information!
A Good Picture?
Here’s a long article asking A Good Picture? He doesn’t offer a panacea for taking good pictures – that’s impossible, but delves into what he considers are things to remember in your photographic career.
Thumbs Down for Camera Phones!
The readers of PhotographyBLOG gave camera phones the thumbs down in the last poll there. But look at the quality of the photos here! Wow, pretty amazing if they’re real! (Warning .. lots of images on that page!)
The camera in my 6600 is fairly crap, it’s good for snapshots when-I-absolutely-can’t-use-a-proper-camera but nothing else IMO.
Big Spider!
You know when someone’s been reading bash.org too much sometimes..
<donncha> damn, fsck... left my camera usb cable at home.. got some great photos of a spider earlier.. must blog tonight :)
<Nargler> saw the big spider I've ever seen in my bath last weekend
<diamond> Nargler: bit you in the english did he?
<Nargler> was <---------------------> leg tip to leg tip and that's to scale!
<diamond> Nargler: on what res screen with what size font? -)
<Nargler> diamond: uhh average :]
<diamond> lol
<Nargler> can't you see what my font size is? ;)
<slaine> Some fonts are bigger than others :)
<diamond> Nargler: whatever size it is, it somehow ate 'gest' from your first remark. -)
40 Tomorrow!
Hey Dave! Happy Birthday tomorrow! Hope you have a good day and don’t bother with online stuff!
Oh, and thanks for finding to that house design page. Looks like a good read!
WordPress Multi Blogs
Lots of ideas flying around the web: 1, 2, 3 by Matt, 4, 5, 6
I like the thin layer approach advocated by Ruben the best. I spent the last 2 nights attempting to coax WP into inserting a %wpblog% variable into the URL but it’s too intrusive and it’ll make tracking official releases of WordPress more difficult. Right now, my work is a “hack” on top of WP and I don’t want to spend time duplicating what other WP developers will do in the future.
When can you expect something from all this work? Maybe as early as next week! Keep yer eyes peeled!
Tetris, from The Essential 50
Here’s a great article on Tetris from the list of Essential 50 Games!