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Browsing posts from January, 2010

Rain ambience mp3

on January 27th, 2010

http://www.rainymood.com/rainymood30.mp3 — recommended artists: radiohead, coldplay, ratatat

How to Use the Unison to Sync a Local Folder With a Remote One on Bluehost

Update: you can!

This is a several-step kind of tutorial, and you’ll need a few tools:

  • A text editor
  • An FTP client
  • SSH access to your site (driver’s license or similar is required for this on bluehost, contact them for more info)
  • Unison
  • Lingon (if you want to automate the syncing, which I wouldn’t recommend for reasons given later)
  • PuTTY if you’re on Windows. I did not test this with Windows at all, but most of the steps should be similar.

Once you have all the tools, proceed to Step One.

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Quoit

Quoit is a small, lightweight PHP-based quotes database. Install is slightly less user-friendly than normal, but it’s nothing terribly drastic–just edit config.php to point to your database and access http://yoursite.com/quoit/setup.php to set up the tables. Once you’ve installed, you’ll need to delete or rename setup.php since users can potentially alter your database tables and create alternative admin accounts by running setup again. I tried to minimize the risk there, but nothing is foolproof.

There’s very little UI-based control over Quoit from an administration standpoint. There’s a link to delete a quote of your choosing (visible only to admins, of course) and that’s about it. If you want to make another user an admin, change the “level” field in their row in your database to 4. (To be honest there are only two user levels, represented by 1 and 4, but I wanted to keep my options open.)

There’s also no easy way to change your password. This will be coming in a future release, once I’m not sick of the sight of opening and closing processing instructions.

Enjoy! Download is here.

Check out Quoit live here.

Check out Phanet!

It’s a project I’m working on with Flavio Premoli and Bryen Yunashko. Phanet is basically a feed aggregator that needs a revamp (which is what I’m here for). You can check it out–figuratively or literally–on github.

I’m running a demo of Phanet, complete with what is hopefully the new default theme, right here.

Also, Phanet appears to add posts only when its sources are updated, so this post serves debug purposes as well.

Downtime

on January 16th, 2010

occurred (briefly) earlier today when I accidentally deleted my entire Wordpress database. Fortunately bluehost keeps biweekly backups.

Minn2.0 Wordpress Theme

Minn is back, and it’s better than ever. With a new, original (I think) three-column layout that uses floats instead of absolute positioning, Minn will fill any browser window to the fullest and maximize your reading experience!

Tested in modern browsers. &c &c.

Spacepress Wordpress Theme

I had loads of fun with this one. One of the prettiest mockups I’ve ever created nearly ruined by the fact that it’s completely un-layout-able. I was able to get around that, though! (Except not for IE6. Cue heart attack.) And now it’s finished in all its glory, ready and waiting to burnish the face of your website to a mirror shine.

XHTML 1.0 and CSS3 valid.

Tested in IE8, Firefox 3.5, Opera 9/10, and Safari 4.

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