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dev.joeldt.net

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:28:36 +0000

From now on, I’ll be moving all my projects over to my new dev subdomain. These are as beta as you can get without being on my computer, because that’s basically what it is–a mirror of my /Applications/MAMP/htdocs folder, updated nightly with unison and launchd (tutorial on that coming up!).

Yeah, so you’ll end up getting stuff like “error: undefined function” on the Crappy Code Detector and COMPLETELY inscrutable Wordpress theme drafts, but they’ll flesh themselves out eventually.

All of it is free, of course. Or will be, once I finish it. Most stuff will be shoved into a new git repo at the last minute, just for the sake of free file hosting. Until then, enjoy.

Rain ambience mp3

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:40:05 +0000

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

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:09:55 +0000

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
- as well as one of the precompiled Linux binaries for bluehost
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.

Quoit

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:19:33 +0000

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!

admin — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:44:11 +0000

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

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:44:39 +0000

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

Minn2.0 Wordpress Theme

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:39:30 +0000

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

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:38:04 +0000

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.

Grammarian v0.1a2

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:49:29 +0000

has added such things as better file organization, prettier permalinks with mod_rewrite, and a registration/login system that doesn’t suck.

A Time to Speak

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:54:26 +0000

A Time to Speak is a literary magazine staffed by students from Providence Extension Program, a homeschool program in southern Ohio. I, a former student, was contracted to design the website for the ATTS people (these people include my sister).

It’s a very simple blog design, since all they needed was essentially an easy announcement system and periodic large updates, which is exactly the kind of thing Wordpress is good at.

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