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Watchmen

Going to see Watchmen tonight, should be pretty fantastic. Even the local movie critic (Josh Crump) liked it.

For more information check out Wired’s reviews.

2009: 03/13
CATEGORY: Entertainment
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Time to dive back into linux

I feel to a certain extent I’ve conquered enough of web development/design to move on to the next thing. Or I’m just bored with it and need something new.

I downloaded two server edition Linux flavors and one personal desktop edition one. All of which I’m going to install and experiment with on one machine. Should be interesting, and perhaps a giant mess.

Server versions:
CentOS — Used by Host Gator for their servers, thought it wouldn’t be a bad one to check out.
The well known and famous Ubuntu Server Edition.
Personal versions:
Ubuntu again, at least until I get picky and try some of the dozen or so others I’ve heard of — see Wikipedia for the most overwhelming list you’ve ever seen of OS’s.

2009: 03/13
CATEGORY: Computers
Linux
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Wordpress Content/Upload problem

So I moved this wordpress installation from a different folder on the webserver so that freddysmind.com would appropriately point to it…
Wordpress makes it relatively easy to do this by providing a wp-config.php file that you can define paths in.

I went about changing and redefining the following four:
define(’WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.freddysmind.com/wordpress’);
define(’WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.freddysmind.com/wordpress’);
define( ‘WP_CONTENT_URL’, ‘http://www.freddysmind.com/wordpress/wp-content’);
define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . ‘/wordpress/wp-content’ );

Piece of cake, I thought I was set. But apparently it doesn’t change the wordpress UPLOAD directory. I’m sure it’s the fact that I just missed the post that said I needed to include that as well. All of my uploads were disappearing.

You can change the uploads directory without having to define it in the wp-config.php file.
Simply go under the Dashboard and go to Settings -> Miscellaneous and you can redefine it there.

2009: 03/09
CATEGORY: Computers
Servers
Web Design
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So Quick

I’ve learned so much so quickly. Wordpress certainly seems the way of the future. From blogs to basic sites. Others have their places but for easy re-theming and quick spin up, Wordpress is the way to go.

I completely redesigned Messiah Volleyball, thank goodness, the initial version was awful.
I’m using a new theme called Gravel, designed by some German. I took his theme and re-colored it in photoshop and voila, a perfect college volleyball theme for Messiah.

Now on my plate is godshospitality.org and completely restructuring/rehosting Press and Journals. I feel a bit overwhelmed on that front.

2009: 03/02
CATEGORY: Computers
Web Design
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Web Standards

Oh web standards, why are you so many and why does IE constantly fall short?

According to w3schools IE6 and IE7 add up to encompass %45 of browsers, with Firefox at %44.

I haven’t found anything that doesn’t work in Firefox yet, but I’ve found plenty of things that don’t work in IE7 (which is supposed to be a ton better than IE6).

I think I’ll follow in the footsteps of IEdeathmarch and drop the idea of supporting IE6, but nonetheless there are a few workarounds necessary to get websites to even work in IE7.

All this to say to everyone… GET FIREFOX

Websites are easier to make for Firefox, and THEY LOOK BETTER.