Archive for the ‘web development’ Category

07.15.09 | promote synergy!

“wtf, joe?”

yea i know… the site’s been collecting a bit of dust, which normally means that i’ve been busy with projects or i’m lazy (or both)

so what’s been up?

  • i’m still drinking beer… i’ve broken the goal of 50… and of course i’m behind on writing about them… talk about fanfare, eh? i think i want to blame wordpress for that… first for releasing 2.8, which had tons of issues (or maybe my site design had the issues… nahhhh). but then i just recently upgraded to 2.8.1, which is a lot better, i don’t get as many errors (they’re still there, but i can write posts at least)
    i found out it’s mostly to do with old plugins that aren’t compatible with the new versions… which is lame-o!
  • on the topic of web development, things have been movin’ along well at work and gorirra… i think i’m running myself ragged tho — after these projects on the table, i think i’m gonna take a break somehow… doubt it tho — oh well…
  • hung out with the fpsa kids over the fourth, where our motto was “24 hours to live” — fun times…
  • padres stink, as they are wont to do… effin’ a… football’s right around the corner i guess
  • i twitter a bunch, so you can pretty much follow my going’s-ons there… (left column of my site — booyah)

is that it? i think so… everything’s been pretty much status quo…

ahh… so here’s something — chaunce, andy, and i were talking about clever ways to hide particular files on one’s computer… i’m sure you all have clever ideas, so post it out… you can be “anonymous” if you want (tho i’ll know who you are, you dirty bastard)

i know mark has a folder on his desktop that says, “mark’s 2008 tax stuff” — very clever, mark… very clever.

the lonely island – like a boss

06.16.09 | like a boss

wordpress-logo-stacked-bgcareful with upgrading to wordpress 2.8, ESPECIALLY if you have a bunch of plugins… there are some real bad compatibility issues (thank GOD i backed everything up and was able to revert back to 2.7.1)

i think that’s why chaunce didn’t have any issues with his other site — there were no plugin issues

you can check here to see if there will be any issues

found another blog that helps with troubleshooting various wordpress issues

i wish i knew that there were gonna be problems before i upgraded… troubleshooting + downgrading = late night for this guy… frick (weary with toil, i haste me to my bed)

06.09.09 | i want you not to go, but you should

added a new plugin to the sidebar of my site — last.fm for wordpress

now you can see the crappy music that i listen to!

i’ve been listening to a lot of arctic monkeys, jason mraz, brett dennen, and an oldie but goodie, counterfit

enjoy!

05.23.09 | meatwad get the honeys, g

welcome to the new digs… finally decided to change the layout (i’m sure chaunce is happy about that)

no idea if there are gonna be broken pages or anything, so just let me know — my qc guy is currently out of the country

i went with a more minimal/simple look to the site — and got rid of scripts that weren’t too efficient (like the accordian script that i previously had) — i switched it to the collapsible tabs

btw… could you tell that i like helvetica? i’m PRETTY sure it’s a font that all computers can read — if not, well then you see arial there… and you suck

in sports news:

padres are currently on a 7-game win streak — ridiculous

heath bell has 12 saves, adrian gonzalez has 16 homers

padres nearly traded peavy away to the palehose — which woulda been stupid… i get it — peavy makes a shizload of money and everyone says that he’s not gonna win any rings with the padres, but he’s our ace! he’s exciting to watch…

then on that same day, the padres traded away jody gerut for tony gwynn, jr. — this is a siiiik move… he’s super excited to be a padre, following in his dad’s footsteps. check out how similar they sound — CRAZY – maybe jr. will have similar game:

junior and senior

05.15.09 | don’t sell yourself short judge, you’re a tremendous slouch

so i initially created the beer list page with javascript tabs: yetii, but then wasn’t really happy with how it displayed it all — i could get basically the same result if i did a search for beer or clicked on one of the categories to the right.

so chaunce came up with a cooler solution. he wrote a table sort script that is super easy to maintain

it’s sleek and it does exactly what i want it to do — even sorts the countries!

so props to chaunce — it definitely makes it easier to see the beers at a glance

wicked awesome beer list

05.07.09 | way to go, jack… way to go

good idea suggested by chaunce: make it easier for the viewer to peruse the beers i’ve had… sure there’s the categories but this will be a separate page that can be modified to show as much text or as little as i want…

it’s accessible to the right (“year of the beer: list“)

it’s a running project… i’m thinking of the abv and maybe flags… ooh…

sweet… i’m at 25 (posted) beers… halfway there and it’s mayo… right on track

03.22.09 | shiny metallic purple armor

so the wheels are in motion to update the gorirra site… not only a new look, but it’ll be built on the wordpress engine

why? well for one, it’s good practice to mess with the php files and whatnot, and two, i really like the seo side of it — the plugins take care of things like sitemaps, rss, etc.

here’s a sneak peek into version 3.0:

ha… pedobear got a tag…

03.15.09 | just to get by, just to get by…

many people knock it, but i actually like vista… sure, it has its downsides like the UAC, but it’s a visually pleasing OS

so there’s the sidebar thingy, which is pretty cool… the ones i currently use:

ben folds sayin' "whatup"

ben folds sayin' "whatup"

i just got the chirpr (twitter app), pandora, and php function finder gadgets… we’ll see how those work out — so far chirpr is pretty cool… it notifies me (with a sound) when a new tweet is posted by anyone i’m following…

pandora i think will be a mainstay — i haven’t compared the gadget vs. having it in the browser (resources), but i would think that having it in the sidebar would be a lot better

the php function finder is a wildcard at this point… i think it’ll come in handy when i mess with sites and stuff… but we’ll see

03.14.09 | he’s going the distance, he’s going for speed

sweet baby jesus, i got business cards for work — why? no reason… i just wanted them!

mr. fuzzycam even snapped a shot:

wtf... the number info was blurred on the card!

wtf... the number info was blurred on the card!

i’m not gonna give ‘em out or anything… it’s just to be a tangible reminder i guess…

*NOTE – that email doesn’t even exist either… hahah — you’ll get bizzounced

when they delivered the cards to me, i thought of this old monster.com commercial (couldn’t findĀ  a youtube vid, unfortunately)

what’s odd is that my old department is trying to enter the support site i worked on (essentially built from scratch) into a contest for the best web support site. there are different categories so obviously my baby won’t be competing against hp or dell… the site will probably be in the small fries category… trying to win the blue ribbon for “best pig”

i dunno what’ll happen… i really haven’t looked at the competition… but in the .01% chance that the site wins… i’m totally gonna brag — ha!

03.06.09 | how could you be so dr. evil?

my first day as a web developer at work was great… i think the best part about it is not having to be tied to a phone… no crappy customers blaming me for their problems… none of that

it was great to get some good work done (with a clear mind) on this custom site that i inherited several months ago.

i found, in the move to my new desk, that i have a lot of crap (like my dolls… err… action figures). tho, as i cleaned out some old papers, i found two old fortunes that i, for some odd reason, kept… i think these fortunes are actually a year old…

"confucius say..." or "...in bed"

...in bed

i normally don’t believe in fortunes, horoscopes, dream ANALyzing, etc, but i just kinda knew it was gonna happen…

…eventually