I know I’m going, looking forward to my 1st conference of this type. Especially I think I will enjoy the DIY attitude of it. What’s going to be talked about? I’ve heard so far in discussion that Ruby, .Net, PHP, Ubuntu (and Linux in general), Launchpad, MySQL, and a host of other topics are all possible. Oh and it’s FREE! But you better watch the website since registration starts soon.
When is this thing? On Sunday, September 23rd, from 1 PM to 10 PM at Taste in the College Park area of Olrando FL.
What is it all about? Watch the video to learn more, also check out the BarCampOrlando website for more info.
I used F-Spots web gallery generator function for stunning results in generating a web gallery. Strict XHTML, 2 Style Sheets, and 3 different sizes generated like bam. I’m vey impressed.
So The Collective graciously invited me to photograph their live performance on WPRK 91.5 Rollins College Radio. The station is housed on the basement of the Mills building, whatever that means. It was a really cool experience. Pictures turned out OK. I am not the best judge of what pictures other people will like. I think some of them are pretty nice though. Unfortunately Scary Mary, a previous DJ was not there. Still fun though.
So tonight I have a few things I’d like to accomplish.
Study
Wash Clothes
Complete wireframe markup for Artist site
Recover musician site graphics and reslice
write my first hCard for this site
Bask in the light of my 22inch wide-screen monitor
Sleep
Hopefully a few of those will happen.
Man I am so intrigued by XML and microformats. I’ve installed the Operator extension for Firefox and it’s amazing how many people’s sites I visit have vCards encoded into their copyright link in the footer. It’s a small little hyperlinked piece of text, commonly their name, or company name, but the extension scans the page for them and I can select the drop down and go read it. Really handy. It’s so stealth. One I saw even had a stinking picture encoded in it. Completely invisible browser side. But when I export the contact, guess what, I get a picture!!
I need to figure out how to get my water turned on. Pooh.
Very late to the game I’ve installed the Google Analytics script in a few places. Here as well as the intranet. Our intranet at work is a secure one as most are and I’m a little worried that will cause me difficult to solve problems. I’ve already adjusted my settings to receive in the words of Google Help, “a personalized” version of the urchin script so we’ll see. Came up from this site with no problem. Although I didn’t use the PHP installation instructions so I may have to adjust the way I’ve got it installed to collect more accurate data. I’m fairly certain the people who work there would know which way works better than moi.
This is on my wish list. I have got to wake up more.
The more I read lately I come across EE being used for decent sized sites.
Tapes N’ Tapes and I’m from Barcelona are great bands.
Now to look for cheap tickets to Boston in two weeks.
I just installed AptOnCD for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I’m hoping that making this CD after I finished getting things setup will help a little bit with the massive amount of time involved in setting up a fresh install of Ubuntu.
Also found a nice guifications theme for Pidgin. It uses the Pidgin character from the website and has a text box for him.
I’m making this post with Drivel so I’m not really going through the effort to put links in it. I’m not sure how it will work out but I have a lot of laundry to do and I’m afraid that if I do not just go ahead and make the post with out links I’ll get all distracted from laundry trying to figure out the right way to do it. I’m also very curious to see how this post interacts with my plugins. Like the footnotes one for example. ((Lets see))
ExpressionEngine (further referred to as EE) uses a dynamic template system that is a little strange at first. After some tutorial watching and reading though it makes good sense. It seems to be the most powerful set of layers I used for this type of thing. In WordPress the templates and themes are about as powerful, yet you cannot manage the different layouts as easily as you can in EE. This kicks up the possiblities a notch or 50 because now you really don’t need to go into a terminal or FTP client and start editing your templates. Or even for that matter keep a working copy on your development box and not be able to see it with real content. You can build all an entire new “theme” in WP vocab or “Template Group” in EE, right on the site and preview everything without interupting the current layout of the site at all. It’s a bit to wrap my head around, but I am happy to see it’s as flexible as it is made out to be. For those who don’t like the idea of having the their templates stored in a database instead of being flat files you can just export them as flat files for safe keeping. But the database thing is really a good idea. I still have a lot to learn about how good of an idea and why, but I like it so far.
It’s going to be interesting to see how I will deal with the Flash content I have to put in the site, but I’m not expecting it to be complicated from what I’ve seen so far.
Something else that I like are the tags used in the templates to call different functions from modules and plugins. Normal stuff like pulling up a blog post etcetera. However it’s much more intuitive than those in WP, which I’m not knocking at all because I love WP. That’s why I use it here. But unless you are up for learning PHP you aren’t gonna get the functionality out of WP. Which is fine I mean why not just learn some stuff. I do. It’s nice to have EE has an option though especially in the context of building a site that I need to teach someone else, who is not inclined to learn how to program, to maintain and possible upgrade or enhance in the future. Five teams beside myself are going to end up with this as the way they manage their website. I’m really happy that using it myself is making me more confident they’ll be able to do it. The documentation is helpful too. But so is WP’s.
I was very much remind of the ZOPE CMF manager page or whatever it’s called when looking at EE’s template administration page. Good stuff. I’m starting to understand why people make template languages in the first place. So that’s that.
Just got saved by WP’s auto save feature. Nice.
So on a more personal project note I was very annoyed with nifty corners as I spent 4 hours trying to get them to work. Eventually I switched to curvy corners, another javascript, and that one worked. So much for getting a lot done. 4 corners sure doesn’t look like much.
Why do people still build websites using tables? I just don’t understand. Cheap perhaps.
I’m really looking forward to moving out in a week. How great is that. Pretty great. Hopefully I’ll last for more than two months this time. HAHAHAHA… eh. he. hem.
Intranet recommendation down. Global Website to go down.
My presentation on using Expression Engine sold. Now for step two, 5 profit centers.
I saw some lighttpd benchmarks today. Also ran across this instructions for deploying Django with lighttpd on Textdrive.
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
