Couple Grammes of Soma

So I designed my own skateboard today.

So I’m in the middle of building these templates that five sites will use, and I’m starting from scratch, or was. A few months back in a couple days I built this same sight, well 4 pages of this same sight and did that from scratch. I have to admit though I hacked up a storm to get that out so quick and it only worked in IE 7. For my purposes it was great work done faster than could be expected. But for production, I think not.

So I decided today that YUI Base, Reset, and Grids are going to be included in the templates.

One concern about using the grids is that the grids are mostly fixed width, well for my purposes that’s fantastic since I’m creating this site off of it’s current tables based design. The move to CSS is a HUGE step in the right direction. I’ll keep working on a layout that works fluidly for another phase.

The new Stars album In Our Bedroom After the War is quite good. By-the-bye they are playing in Atlanta on Oct 27th. Maybe I’ll see you there.

Today I spent a lot of time trying to configure the new (dv) base server. I must say changing Linux environments like this throws off my command line flow. It only took me a few hours to get yum installed. Couldn’t get bzr installed at all. I did get Subversion installed, but didn’t actually do anything with it. I still need to figure out if upgrading Python to v2.4 will take me out of the UOP.

David Seah has a great article on how to configure the (dv) for WordPress, and I’m gonna use it as a guide post for configuring this (dv) for ExpressionEngine. Thanks Dave!

To-do
• Python 2.4
• Kill SMPT connections
• Configure MySQL
• Configure PHP
• Learn more about yum
• GET MY CAR FIXED!

I have a conference call with China on my Thursday morning. Need to practice some phrases…

So today I got access to our new MediaTemple (dv) base. Sweet!

I’m still trying to figure this whole thing out but it looks pretty stinking awesome so far.

Let’s hope China can ’see’ things now.

New Pad

Originally uploaded by knmurphy

Yesterday after service and bookstudy, (I finally did not oversleep), I went out and got some plates, a day bed (couch), a shelf, and some curtains. Yay!