Feed me
Late evening, Monday, June 12, 2006 • 5 responses
etherfarm’s RSS feed problems should be fixed
Meta Matters
Latest and Greatest != Best
Late afternoon, Monday, June 05, 2006 • Responses off
Sorry about the downtime. I suspect my webhost upgraded PHP without telling me, which has in turn required me to upgrade Expression Engine, which has in turn broken a few things. No one’s fault but my own. It’s a vicious cycle. …
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Towards a taxonomy of “he said, she said”
Lunchtime, Monday, April 04, 2005 • 6 responses
Khoi’s recent Commentary on Comments, a plea for comment aggregation, provides a good segue to this next installment of my series on ExpressionEngine, etherfarm, and the ways of the universe. I’m less interested, however, in aggregating comments than I am in making comments a more useful protocol for meaningful dialogue.
(The full entry is also filed in Synapse under Expression Engine)
All this fuss over some measly boxes
Mid-morning, Thursday, March 17, 2005 • 10 responses
It’s a good time to divulge some of the motivations and machinations behind etherfarm v4.0. There’s no way I’ll be able to do this in one article, so I’ll take a stab at regularly publishing etherfarm production and ExpressionEngine information on Thursdays. This kind of weekly series will allow me to consolidate EE-related punditry and code geekery to one day a week, so the non-technical readers don’t feel alienated. In this article I’ll tackle layout.
(The full entry is also filed in Synapse under Design)
Those Three Little Words
Late evening, Sunday, March 13, 2005 • 23 responses
The names for this site’s major sections—Synapse, Oculus, and Mandible—debuted in 2002 when etherfarm version 2.0 launched. For whatever reason, this use of unconventional terminology has always irked certain people. I’m fine with this; if etherfarm is ever a site which appeals to everyone, I’m clearly doing something wrong, and of course, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. Every once in a while, though, I come across sites which reference or review etherfarm using qualified complements such as, “once you get past the ’clever’ navigation…” or “despite the intellectual pretentiousness…” …
(The full entry is also filed in Synapse under Design)
Oculus Is Dead! Long Live Oculus!
Late afternoon, Saturday, March 05, 2005 • 4 responses
While Expression Engine now possesses an amazing Gallery module, I’ve chosen to produce the new Oculus using the standard weblog module. The Gallery module isn’t particularly flexible (yet) and it became clear to me that maintaining a certain degree of consistency throughout the site wouldn’t be possible given the Gallery module’s current feature set. EE Gallery entries can’t have custom fields (used for a variety of features in this version of etherfarm), nor can gallery entries have trackbacks or belong to multiple galleries. I could live without the trackbacks and may in fact remove them sitewide, but I figured if they exist one place on etherfarm, they should exist elsewhere. …
(The full entry is also filed in Synapse under Expression Engine)
Introducing etherfarm v4.0
The wee hours, Friday, March 04, 2005 • 7 responses
As is clearly evident, etherfarm v4.0 is the culmination of at least 37 minutes of work. In actuality, I’ve been working on this version of the site off and on since last October, with the bulk of development really taking place over the last three weeks or so. It’s a complete overhaul which started with a decision to switch the CMS I use. I’ve already written in detail about what was involved in the switch and about the experience of switching, and that article will be posted next week, followed by occasional articles on how and why things work around here. …
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bear with me
Lunchtime, Thursday, February 05, 2004 • Responses off
I know that the blog-reading public has an infinitesimally short attention span and that posts from my trip are on the longish side. I’ve been spacing them out partly because I need the time to incorporate photographs into the posts, and partly so that the entry page to etherfarm doesn’t become [more] unwieldy. I should probably be better about using the “extended entry” in Movable Type.
Other aspects of the farm have been tended while I post-process my trip to the Philippines. …
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meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Mid-morning, Sunday, January 11, 2004 • Responses off
A warm welcome to those visiting from coolstop!
You’re visiting right in the middle of an ongoing narrative—posts from my recent travels to the Philippines. Because visiting a website with an ongoing narrative can be a little discombobulating, etherfarm’s best of the cool designation has been impetus enough for me to raise the etherblog preservation society from the rubble of this site’s last redesign.
The etherblog preservation society lists favorite posts—my favorites, readers’ favorites, and “statistical anomaly” posts which for some reason or another caused a spike in the server logs. …
(The full entry is also filed in Synapse under Life Online)
Happy Birthdays
Early afternoon, Tuesday, January 06, 2004 • 10 responses
A quick happy-birthday-to-me. I turn 31 today, and I don’t feel a day over 45. Yay for that.
Etherfarm turns 2 years old on January 23. …