Category Archives: Site News

One Bug Down

Argg. I just spent all morning figuring out why some pages on this site wouldn’t load. The issue came down to a call to getimagesize in wp-content/plugins/textile2-new.php.

The change that fixed it (in unified diff format):

--- textile2-new.php.old        Tue Jun  8 23:36:12 2004
+++ textile2-new.php    Sun Jul 11 15:19:04 2004
@@ -2805,7 +2805,7 @@
         }
       }
     }
-    return @getimagesize($file);
+    return;
   } // function image_size

   /**

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New Style Sheet

I just made a new style sheet that weighs in at 1910 bytes (664 bytes after gzip compression). It’s pretty minimal no graphics, no colors besides black and shades of gray (except for links which appear in the default colors).

I know it’s not perfect, but I think it’s a good start.

If it totally doesn’t work for you, leave a comment.

Staticize

I just turned on the Staticize Plugin for WordPress. This allows page content to be generated once dynamically and then stored for future visits.

It looks interesting, I’ll see what I think.

Update: I’ve disabled it because it conflicts with the “Search Hilite” plugin.

New Site Features

Well, the transition to TextDrive is complete. I’ve canceled my account with my prior hosts, Media3. I was a part of their 12 month’s free linux hosting which is a good deal. However, the site was slow and features limited.

On TextDrive I get 5 times the harddrive space and bandwidth. Not to mention faster servers and an infinite number of MySQL databases. However, the real gems of TextDrive are WebDAV and Subversion. I’ve already setup WebDAV with iCal to publish my calendar. Subversion should allow me version control so I can keep track of any changes I make to the website.

Urichin should be installed later so I can keep tabs on who visits the site. But until then, a slightly modified version of refer should do the trick nicely.

Todo Items:

  • More photo albums
  • Photoblog
  • New CSS layout (I lack an eye for visual design)

TextDrive

If you are reading this, it means that the new DNS settings have propagated and you are viewing the new server that is hosting my blog.

You’ll notice the slighly girly layout change. Hopefully it’ll get improved over the coming weeks but I don’t have tons of time to devote to that.

The new server is hosted by TextDrive which provides fast and inexpensive hosting for people who create content.

More info later.