My technical blog - in beta form (finally)

Date April 2, 2008

So, as a personal experiment I’ve been developing a technical blog from scratch.

Well I’m happy to say it’s now into a beta stage and available to view by anyone. There’s not a lot to it, just a few entries and no way to comment (yet), but it’s working and it’s doing the job it’s been programmed thus far.

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You can see here the basic form, I’ve built it from a theme developed by arsin called Beautiful Day. Everything else has been done by me. I’m pretty happy with the little calendars I built (look ma, no tables!). I’ve been struggling with trying to keep the whole thing XHTML valid, but I’m getting stuck when trying to show code inside an entry. I know the problem, and I’m working on a solution, just takes time…

Some CommentLuv for all

Date March 24, 2008

After seeing this in action at a friends blog, I thought this little nugget of a plug in would be great! It’s called CommentLuv and if you so allow it will try to grab your last entry on your blog and slap a link up for it.

I think it only works for Wordpress, as in it’s a plugin only for Wordpress, but it looks like it will search your blog in the usual spots for a the feed, here’s some info on that part “The plugin looks for a feed in the default location of your blog, for Wordpress users this will be /feed/ or /?feed=rss, blogspot users get /feeds/posts/default, web-log blogs are now included thanks to Edward De Leau. If it can’t find a feed there then it will search your <head> part of your website for an alternate link (<link rel=”alternate”) and use that instead.

I hope you enjoy!