Panes of Glass

As any loyal reader of this blog can attest, I continually mull over whether or not maintaining a blog is a worthy pursuit. I’ve gone on hiatus three times for several months to a year and even posted that said post was my last. I don’t do this because I have nothing to say; I rather find myself posting elsewhere in a forum or commenting on other blogs. The real battle is whether or not I should post my thoughts and contributions on my own site or on others’. (more…)

Do you like WordPress plugins? Well, Scott Reilly is back with 14 days of plugins, and he’s updated the mother of all plugins for WP2.5! Check it out, and get yourself a copy while you’re at it. Great work, Scott!

This is a short list of some of the amazing, new applications coming out for developers to use on the web:

• Heroku for Ruby on Rails development
• Photoshop Express for image editing and sharing
• WordPress 2.5 for even more powerful blogging and now speedy image galleries
• Twine for linking your tagged based information together (M. David Peterson has had some very interesting blog posts about Twine recently.)
• Woopra for real-time site management that you have to see to believe; Google Analytics, eat your heart out!

See below for some interesting screenshots:

I seem to have misplaced my camera, so I have no photos. However, WordCamp really got me excited about blogging, networking, and reading and writing again. The new version was launched, Matt was there and discussed the future, and several other notables gave outstanding presentations on how to better blog and interact with people through blogging. (more…)

Don’t get your hopes up. This is only temporary until I finish the redesign. In the spirit of CSS Naked Day, I’m going naked while I redesign my page. My wife Julie Riley of J. Riley Creative helped me redesign my site the way I’ve always wanted to do it, and now I’m going to put it in place. This is going to require some time, as I’m not just using CSS, but I’m also re-working the default behaviors of WordPress to print out material the way I like it. You’ll see what I mean soon….

I’ve been thinking about this question ever since I came across WAMP Server the other day. In their list of included packages, they noted Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki and phpBB. Until I read that, I had never considered a modular, open source web application to be a framework. (more…)

What do you think of the new Panes of Glass? For the longest time, I’ve been wanting to do this, and I finally found some time this weekend, when I was able to finally sit upright for any amount of time. For the longest time, I have neglected the actual look and design and focused on writing my own software. I realized in Dublin that while writing software is really cool and interesting to me, it’s not my end goal. My end goal is to write, and as you can tell, I have not been doing much of that since I have spent what little time was left me on trying to learn programming languages and writing software that is still incomplete.

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