Among my fleet of creaky old hand coded web sites like Feed2JS one of my favorite is the Five Card Flickr stories site that is just a few stories short of being 10 years old. I cannot even recall last time I checked in on it. A few days ago, I got this alert Howdy […]
That shift from using a tool for a task to reshaping it for a future one is maybe the thing I love most about my efforts at coding (given my lesser skills with real hand tools). Quite often I find myself making small tweaks to things I know are in my projects; but will anyone […]
Coming soon to a cpanel near you (if you are hosted by Reclaim Hosting) My favorite work over the last few years, spawned by the Open Learning Fellowship at TRU set up for me by Brian Lamb, has been the development of WordPress themes that turn a vanilla bloggy type site into a functional web […]
The memory is dim, like the fuzzy signal of an old analog TV set. The kind you would try and rotate the antenna to get it clear. I’m maybe 5? 7? and enter the Baltimore apartment of a close friend of my grandmother. This friend of hers is short for an adult and speaks a […]
For the obviously obvious statement, WordPress is built on a database. The question is, besides data like visitor counts, what can you infer from the data in the posts and metadata itself? The question was swirling in preparation for a research interview I did today with David Porter and Valerie Lopes for the Ontario Extend […]
A lot of things in my life have played out in this blog, in flickr photos, in tweets. But that’s not everything. Not by far. A wonderful new part of my life, a long vet that has been in development offline a long while, came on a month ago, when I stood on a cottage […]
It’s way late in the day before a long weekend, but just to jog some notes down to pick up next week. Besides spawning an Ontario Extend Daily Extend challenge for July I have more plans for the month. Participants in the first cohort training were set up with web domains with Reclaim Hosting sponsored […]
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do with Tom Woodward on building sites that draw content from WordPress ones via the API but I’ve got reason and interest to start. This has been a back of the mind idea for while for my sites that rely on random images drawn from the flickr […]
He talks tough, but he just wants you to be creative and join a challenge to do all 31 Daily Extends in July. Are you ready for the @ontarioextend Daily Extend July Challenge? Are you tough enough to go 31 for 31? Stay tuned, Sergeant Hulka is preparing for you! pic.twitter.com/XXTQOj4BkI — Alan Levine (@cogdog) […]
One of the biggest speed bumps in doing a connected course in the Feed WordPress style approach is having people figure out the arcane URL for their Blog’s RSS Feed. It’s relatively easy and discoverable if someone’s entire blog is devoted to the course or project, but gets messier if someone wants to use a […]
