Mar 05 23

WordPress hacking

I've been on a vacation with nothing planned this week so I've finally had time to hack around with WordPress. The new template system offers a great platform on which building customized views is easy. I added a thumbnail (and link) to the current image in The Life of Jalo, a list of the five latest posts when viewing a single entry, a link to geocaches near us if you're viewing a geocaching post, now playing information, and I jumped the folksonomy bandwagon. The rest of this post is fairly technical in content, so if code and web development aren't your thing, you might want to move on.

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Mar 05 10

The importance of backups

A fried hard-drive, out-of-sync production environment and version control, and no backups. A recipe for lots of avoidable work…

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Feb 05 15

The innards of route finders

A discussion on how the internals of route finding services are unintentionally revealed to end users.

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Feb 05 11

Stifling creativity

On how a single, small project can stifle all creativity for weeks.

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Oct 04 4

Back to Java with NetBeans

Some notes on returning to real programming with Java, testing NetBeans, and admonishing myself.

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