Tidbits for Saturday, 10 December 2005
Tidbits for the week ending Saturday, December 10, 2005:
- A fantastic example of using JavaScript to provide dynamic image resizing. (Via Daring Fireball)
- How to write unmaintainable code.
- Treehouse
Migration to WordPress from Movable Type on MacOS X and Linux
After three years of using Movable Type, I decided to migrate my weblog over to the open-source WordPress weblogging systems. This article documents the process, and some of the details.
Why?
Some of
In Search of One True Layout
One of these days I'm going to find the time to become expert in CSS-based layout, and stop with my lazy table-based tendencies (mainly because of the semantic advantages.) When I do, I'll be
Gracie-Barra BH Marbella Weblog Launch
As a first WordPress website, I've reworked and relaunched the website of our local Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu / Grappling martial arts club — Gracie Barra BH Marbella (a.k.a. Marbella Submission Fighters).
WordPress Pages or Posts?
I've nearly decided to use WordPress to implement our company's intranet. I'm thinking that I'll use the key/value meta facility to assign content to groups, and then add some http authentication to
Add the date to the MacOS X menu bar.
Tip of the day: Add the date to the MacOS X menu bar. (Via Tao of Mac)
Lost
In anticipation of the arrival of my new video iPod, we just purchased and downloaded the first season of "Lost" from the Apple Music Store. I don't plan on watching the video on the iPod, but
Favorite Macintosh OSX Applications
A friend of mine just bought an iMac and asked me for some Mac OS X application recommendations, providing as good an opportunity as ever to create a new permanent weblog article to maintain a list
Hacho de Pizarra, Spain
Today's outing took us on this gorgeous day to nearby Pizarra. From Marbella, we took the Ojen highway to Coin, then on to Cártama, and then on to Pizarra—all in all, about a 45-minute drive.
In the
Encrypting multiple files using PGP 9 on Mac OS X
The most annoying thing I've found in PGP 9 is its seeming inability to encrypt multiple files individually. If I select multiple files to be encrypted, PGP 9 will create a single, generically