I’ve been wanting to customize the templates, for the Publish feature in Delicious Library 2 for a long time. The ones it comes with are nice, but I want to be able to pull the data and display it in my own way, so I reverse engineered one of the default templates to see how it all functioned. This is a work-in-progress, so I’ll update as I figure stuff out.
While designing your own Tumblr theme, you have the option to choose between three different audio player colors for your audio posts: black, grey and white. If you’re pulling data using the Tumblr API, you are limited to just the default white player. With a slight change to the code, you can display it in other colors.
I have succumbed to an internet meme. My friends have been sending around a list of 25 things about themselves so we can learn more about each other. I’ve been enjoying them, so I’m adding mine to the pile. Here’s my list of 25 random things about me.
I’m a member of a local comic group called Midmococo. Each year we host an official 24 Hour Comics Day location where comic artists attempt to create a 24-page comic in 24 hours. This year, we’ll be working downtown at the Columbia Art League. Because of the extra space, we were able to expand our event. To get more people involved and fill that space, we needed publicity, so I thought this would be a good time to try and silkscreen a poster. With my wife’s help, it turned into an interesting process, so I thought I’d share. It didn’t quite work out as planned, but it still looked cool.
While reading an article on NYTimes.com, I discovered a handy little feature that I never really noticed before. When I double clicked on a word to highlight it, a pop-up window appeared with a definition. At first I was annoyed to have a pop-up appear, but once I figured out what was going on, I started to like it.
When I launched the new design of my site, I also changed the way URLs were structured causing broken incoming links from search engine traffic. Since I didn’t want Google to think those pages vanished, I needed to create a few 301 redirects to keep my posts showing up in searches. Because of the way Symphony does some RewriteRules in the .htaccess, the default, easy way to add 301 redirects doesn’t quite work as expected. After some asking in the forum and some trial and error I managed to find a different way.
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When I was creating my custom templates for Symphony, I reused a lot of code from the default template. This helped me learn how Symphony functioned and how to write XSLT. Because the default template used wildcard selectors when outputting data in textareas, my template did too. It worked fine until I had a post with code blocks in it and then I had a problem.
While I was building my site in Symphony, I had a bit of a learning curve with XSLT and even simple, little things were a challenge. One of those dumb, little things were getting Internet Explorer conditional comments to output in my XHTML. It took a bit of Googling, but I figured it out.
I finally got around to refinishing the top surface of the lighted drafting table I found at the University surplus Ebay store. It looked pretty rough at first, but after a few coats of stain and polyurethane it looks new again. Now, it’s time to start using it!
I attempted the the 24 Hour Comics thing again this year and I teamed up with a friend. We did a comic jam of two different stories that would be bound in a flip-book style comic. The trick was that the stories had to relate and every half hour, we would trade our half-finished page and let the other finish it with no pre-planning. Since we were going to end up with 24 pages between the both of us, we did the challenge in 12 hours instead of 24. I know it doesn’t exactly fit the rules, but 24 hours is too much work, in my opinion. The last time I tried it I was a zombie for the rest of the week.