Ian WinterIt's actually launched! Using Ray Camden's BlogCFC, dpSyntaxHighligher & LightWindow (see comments) so thanks to all respective authors. This is possibly the quickest it's taken me from saying I'm going to do it to actually, well, doing it!
Gone for the light on dark approach this time, fully CSS'd (no it's probably not valid) and I'm really pleased with it.
Been quiet on the posting front lately, mainly because Sky Broadband suck. OK, so that's a bit harsh, their customer service department suck. Pipex also suck.
Basically moved from Pipex to Sky, mainly due to cost as bundled from Sky saves me overall around £25 per month. No brainer. Also would get a faster connection.
Not going to go into the long winded detail right now, but basically the ADSL migration process still sucks and is unreliable. Since being with Sky for just over 4 weeks, just over 3 of them have been without connection. If you want to migrate at the moment I think cancel the old and start up with the new is more reliable!
Some of you may know as well as being a day to day web developer for Rawnet I'm also the Technical Director over at Caffeine Press, a company I founded with an ex-colleague and mate back in 2004.
The site has recently been re-launched with a nice web2.0 tastic design and UI elements. There's plenty more to come on the site with a lot more detail going to be added to the portfolio about the sites and some pretty little thumbnails (probably off alexa's service but tbc) and also a blog keeping you in the loop as to what we're up to and what's coming soon on the sites. I won't say any more but off the back of FOWA day 1 it's confirmed so ideas we were planning are definitely worth pushing on.
flatpackedworld is far from done either. I've got a load of code I want to publish and also still need to finish the design. Comments need to be done and the archive pages are going to be hidden away a bit in favour of a nice tag cloud type thing (not sure exactly what just yet), also need to work on my stream to hook in flickr, twitter, last.fm and del.icio.us updates.
Got a side track idea on the "stream" thing, but, not sure if it as any legs yet and is still very much a "in my head" idea, hey you never know it might work.
Not really sure, but, following on from the many posts floating about after Tim's original entry including Ray's, Andy's and Mark's I thought I'd join in. Amongst other things I claim to be, I'm usually aliased as flatpackedworld.
About 2 years ago, maybe more, I remember finding a new, free statistics service called Reinvigorate/. It seems that after disappearing and doing nothing since it's popped back up with a beta program.
I got an invite this morning and flatpackedworld is now running the tracking code so we'll see how it holds up. Had a quick look around and it seems nice, good UI and seems pretty quick.
If you want an invite go to the site and hit the link. It currently says:
We periodically invite new groups of people into the beta, about every week(ish) or so. This helps us mitigate any unexpected server load while we fine tune and tweak our systems.
Just started looking into Microformats and as such have added an hcard, some rel="tag" and rel="bookmark" links into the blog.
I'm using both Operator and Tails to see what's going on.
Nicely pointless, yet very festive, icons added to December posts. Simple tweak to the output using day() and month() ensures the magic is limited. Cheers to Nick at n.design for the free icons.
This will be the last code update I think before Christmas, might tweak the entry page tomorrow hangover depending!
Well, new design and new version of BlogCFC (Cheers Ray!) is all in place.
It's not finished by a long shot, need to do some caching on the last.fm feed and also figure out where the hell to put my flickr photos. The entry pages still need some work; comments I'm going to put inline I think along with trackbacks (if I turn it on). Thinking some nice script.aculo.us stuff, just because really.
For now, I'm quite happy with it.
If you're running and old version of BlogCFC and you are looking to upgrade one of the issues, well, nice to have things you'll have to do is create aliases for all the old entries and categories.
I've done a quick, very dirty, CF page that'll do this for you. This was run on 5.5.003, but, think the structure has been like it since 4.x, though, may be wrong. Anyway, might be useful.
<more />
<cfset dsn = "blogdsn"> <cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="e">
select * from tblblogentries
</cfquery>
<cfloop query="e">
<cfquery datasource="#dsn#">
update tblblogentries set alias = '#lCase(reReplace(reReplace(title,"[^A-Za-z0-9 ]","","ALL"),"( +)","-","ALL"))#' where id = '#id#'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
<cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="c">
select * from tblblogcategories
</cfquery>
<cfloop query="c">
<cfquery datasource="#dsn#">
update tblblogcategories set categoryalias = '#lCase(reReplace(reReplace(categoryname,"[^A-Za-z0-9 ]","","ALL"),"( +)","-","ALL"))#' where categoryid = '#categoryid#'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
Having said I'd almost decided on a new design for site which really was blatant lie as I had about 4 designs on the go, I think, I might actually have decided this time.
The site might get a bit funky as not only am I going to have a splash page style homepage the blog is going to be upgraded and the database moved, oh, and it'll also be changing server. All in all if it comes back I'll be happy!
Naturally when this'll actually happen I don't know, hopefully this weekend, but hey... I'll settle for this year!
Nothing interesting at all really, but, finally think I've decided on a new layout for my site... though... may change my mind tomorrow.
It's completely different, a bit darker, but all good, even includes ducks! Watch this space.
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