Archive for June, 2007

• 06.04.07 Moving Wordpress 2 posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Here’s round 2 of my Wordpress Move script from yesterday. It now figures out if your home address is different from your base url and if so, it strips the path off of the home address and appends it to the new base url to create a new home address. This makes the assumption that both your url and home are on the same domain. I’d be interested to know if anyone finds other uses for this or if there are any feature requests. If not, it’s serving my purposes and probably won’t go any further, but you never know.

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• 06.03.07 Shorter Twitter Sidebar Links posted in Web Design, Geekery

  A quick note for people using Twitter and Wordpress. You’ve probably noticed that nasty problem I was having where the twitter sidebar links were overlapping the blog’s main text on the front page when twitter failed to tinyurl the link. Well, I fixed it…

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• 06.03.07 Subversion and Quicksilver posted in Geekery

  Okay, you probably already knew this, but I just figured it out. I was looking for a simple way to add and commit files to a subversion repository right from Path Finder. After playing with a lot of applescript nonsense, I finally discovered that with the Subversion Module installed in Quicksilver you can just invoke quicksilver with the current selection (⌃-⌥-space, unless you’ve modified the trigger) and type sv(n) to get a menu of Subversion commands to run on the selection. Status, Add, Commit, Log and Update are all available (with Growl support). The file actions (rm, cp, mv) are not available, but it does what I generally need to do. I’d probably prefer not to be able to delete files with an accidental keystroke, considering the speed at which Quicksilver works. So, for those using SVN for web development (or any other use), this is a great way to quickly check the status of a file/directory, add new files, and make a commit with a message. As a speed-related note, get used to typing svst, sva, and svc for quick access to the most used commands.

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• 06.02.07 Moving Wordpress Faster posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I’ve got a new script, but it has a very limited usage. I built it because I develop a lot of sites on my laptop using a local testing environment. In order to test my sites in VirtualBox with Internet Explorer, I have to use my local IP as the url for my Wordpress sites. Which means I end up changing the url and home address of the sites pretty often, sometimes directly through mySQL after I’ve already switched location. So here’s my solution…

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• 06.01.07 Semantic Details posted in Web Design

  When we did our Circle Six redesign, it was important to me that we go out of our way to make this our most semantic and accessible site yet. Clean, semantic code was the goal, and here are some details that we considered that you may want to keep in mind for your next project…

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