The original goal of being able to run PHP on top of Tomcat was to allow simple development of PHP based applications like WordPress and/or bbPress. To get these working I needed a database. The wildly popular mySQL database has a nice installer for OS X. Mine installed to /usr/local. I did the install ages …
Category Archives: Wordpress
Themage
Once again “that time” is upon me – the time when I look at my site and say “No more!” and tear down the theme thats been here in favour of a redesign. In the interim I’ll be trying a few different themes by other people as I look at features of them, so dont …
Talk like a pirate day … Arrg!
What can I say, and dinna spare the whip! It’s awesome when ye have th’ right WordPress plugin enabled.
Theme thoughts for version 9
As I scroll back through the various incarnations of my theme (and look at what I liked about interim themes such as “Vista”) I have to conclude that there are design decisions that remain constant: Rounded corners Purple shaded “brushed metal” texture and white content area Right-hand sidebar Fixed-width and floating Dark grey background Content-area …
I am…
I feel somehow dirty. See, I really dislike Alanis Morissette and will leave the room if her music is playing. It was “hate at first sight” – she appeared on the Jools Holland show back in 1995 performing “You oughta know” – I remarked at the time that she sounded like an angst-ridden little harpy. …
Blog Reboot
I am fed up to the back teeth of the way my theme here wont “stick”. Something isn’t right. In fact I will go so far as to say that something here is seriously messed up. I just have no clue what. If you were browsing my site around 1:30pm today you will have probably …
Fiction
All of my fiction writing projects now have a “book cover” or “movie poster” and the fiction page on the site has had a make-over. In the process I reijigged some of the URLs. Apologies if that means some bookmarks are now broken. I used the fabulous Celtx screenwriting software to participate in “Script Frenzy” …
Dysfunctional
Nanowrimo 2008 Looks like version 8 of the Mirror Dimly theme is dead in the water. Back to the drawing-board and see what I can come up with. *sigh* On other fronts, looks like I have a working idea for this year’s National Novel Writing Month challenge, and it’s back to fan fiction. I’ve had …
Acts of theme-age
For some strange reason the theme on In a mirror, dimly keeps reverting back to the “Default” one. One fix I saw was to put a copy of the correct (“mirror-dimly”) theme into the “Default” directory, but that’s missing the point. The question that should be asked is “why is my theme reverting in the …
Utter Neglect
I started another blog, and podcast last November and you can certainly tell! It’s now JUNE and I am finally getting around to finishing the blog redesign. Its wholly updated compared to the previous version but carries through several key design elements: Rounded corners Purple shaded “brushed metal” texture Right-hand sidebar Fixed-width and floating Dark …