I’m cleaning my root. In the not so near future I will remove the subdirs ffbatch, ffpv3d, stampomatic and test/attractors4 in favor of respectively ffbatch.sjeiti.com, ffpv3d.sjeiti.com, stampomatic.sjeiti.com and attractors.sjeiti.com.
jQuery.feedQuilt
Ever since I changed ronvalstar.nl into something more comfortable I wanted to give sjeiti.com a quick haulover (change it into the same style, revise structure and content, upgrade from WordPress 2.3 to 2.8… etc…). So I just did but it’s still bit of a mess, I’ll get to that someday…
I made a new cool jQuery plugin while I was at it. At first I wanted to incorporate the Last.fm quilt widget. But the simplicity of the widget into another Flash overkill made me reconsider: this could easily be done with jQuery and not only for Last.fm.
broken/fixed
Some things weren’t working quite well so I started updating the cms to the most recent version. Of course in a test dir with a test db. Then I stumbled onto the root and my entire @$%#%**^ site was gone. Well, not entirely gone, there’s just no output. It took me a day or two but now it’s working again, plus I threw in a little redesign just for the fun of it, and some better jquery javascript. I still have to check the database for posts with old javascript and re-edit some pages. But at least it’s up and running again.
WordPress
For years I’ve been using my own CMS which actually started as a sort of personal project to learn more php. And now that I know how to write php I’m too lazy to extend or rewrite my own CMS so I’ve poored all my data into WordPress, which seems to be the most popular php blog type of thing around. There’s still a lot of stuff to implement correctly (the entire code portfolio, long lines for sifr, stats, upload) and there’s a lot of things I want different from the default settings. So I imagine it’ll keep me busy some time (especially writing a good upload plugin).
yummy
I’m done putting all my links into Delicious. I also wrote a little php to poor all the links and tags back into my db with the Delicious api. Now to see if I can do some Processing to all this data.
Delicious
sparklines
This infostetics article pointed me to sparkline.org. Sparklines are “intense, simple, wordlike graphics”, invented(?) by Edward Tufte. You can download a gd sparkline-library at sparkline.org.
My first sparkline (no use of that library though) is to the right showing the unique visitors on top and the spiders/bots on the bottom, clearly showing the spider/bot harrassment of the past two months. Since I don’t have privilige to do cron jobs I faked it: on every spider or bot acces to my site it checks the age of the sparkline image, if the image is too old it is recreated. I haven’t really tested yet how long before a time out (creating multiple or more complex images).
merry christmas and a happy newyear
It’s been a great year at shapers: we’ve aquired some new (very cool) clients. So even though we’ve been up to our ears in work I’ve managed to conjure up a little christmas/newyears card.
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