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DataPoohbah WordPress Downgrade to the release version.

June 7, 2006 in IT, Web Development by datapoohbah | No comments

DataPoohbah is out of the WordPress Alpha Testing Business ;/

We’ve rolled out the current release 2.0.3 which so far seems pretty good. We’ll play with and continue to test the latest and greatest release(s) of WordPress, but we’re done playing with the Alpha pre-releases, at least here.

Of course that’s not what they are meant for so this isn’t a slam on anyone.

We’ve just had a number of errors on our site and they were mostly the result of pre-pre-release versions we were playing with.

DP needs to be more stable than that and we don’t have the time right now to fook with it.

Websites as graphs

June 7, 2006 in Gadgets, Miscellaneous, Web Development by datapoohbah | No comments

This is some pretty cool shiznit.

Datapoohah.com/tech/ as a graph:

DataPoohbahAsGraph

Click here, to check out just about any website as a graph.

 

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New Skin, New WordPress Theme

May 17, 2006 in DataPoohbah Tools, Web Development by datapoohbah | No comments

The DataPoohbah site has changed.  We’re now running a tweaked version of the MW “Monetizing The Web” WordPress Theme.  Not because we’re a bunch of money grubbing web folks, but because this theme just rocks!

  • It’s clean
  • It’s simple
  • It’s easy to tweak
  • It has dedicated ad spaces sure, but that’s really not what this site is about, nope, but it helps pay the bills (yeah right).
  • It’s just a really sweet, sweet theme.

Kudos to author(s). 

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BlogDesk and Blog Publishing

May 16, 2006 in IT, Web Development by datapoohbah | No comments

I've been looking for a better way to publish for while now since WordPress's internal WYSIWYG editor is kind of messed up. It's not bad for simple things, and you can certainly paste into it. Often times though, when you do and go back to edit something it eats those edits or dorks up the whole formatting of your post.

They've added spell check, but it doesn't work worth a damn if you're hosted on the Windows Platform for what ever reason. I've been unable to figure that out.

[tag]Performancing[/tag] as a Firefox extension is pretty damn nifty in an of itself, but it lacks spell check and if you're not careful the formatting that it preserves from copy paste can also bite you where the sun don't shine.

I've looked at a few stand alone packages including [tag]ecto[/tag] which I understand if you run on the MacOS X platform is pretty nice. But it simply blows chunks on Windows.

So far the best I've found is [tag]BlogDesk[/tag]. It's free (donation encouraged) and other than the fact that I still can't tell how it picks it's 'Technorati' tags, it work just swell.

BlogDesk

BlogDesk handles images, and thumbnail creation and uploads really, really well. It gets an A+ so far as the best option I've looked at.

Web 2.0? How about HyperLink 2.0

May 4, 2006 in Web Development by datapoohbah | No comments

From Daily WTF…

This is awesome:

For those of you who haven't upgraded to Web 2.0 yet, today's submission from Daniel is a perfect example of what you're missing out on. Since the beginning of the Web (the "1.0 days"), website owners have always wanted to know who was visiting their website, how often, and when. Back then, this was accomplished by recording each website "hit" in a log file and running a report on the log later.
But the problem with this method in Web 2.0 is that people don't use logs anymore; they use blogs, and everyone knows that blogs are a pretty stupid way of tracking web traffic. Fortunately, Daniel's colleagues developed an elegant, clever, and — most importantly — "AJAX" way of solving this problem. Instead of being coded in HTML pages, all hyperlinks are assigned a numeric identifier and kept in a database table. This identifier is then used on the HTML pages within an anchor tag:

<a href="Javascript: followLink(124);">View Products</a>

When the user clicks on the hyperlink, the followLink() Javascript function is executed and the following occur:

  • a translucent layer (DIV) is placed over the entire page, causing it to appear "grayed out", and …
  • a "please wait" layer is placed on top of that, with an animated pendulum swinging back and forth, then …
  • the XmlHttpRequest object is used to call the "GetHyperlink" web service which, in turn …
  • opens a connection to the database server to …
  • log the request in the RequestedHyperlinks table and …
  • retrieves the URL from the Hyperlinks table, then …
  • returns it to the client script, which then …
  • sets the window.location property to the URL retrieved, which causes …
  • the user to be redirected to the appropriate page

Now that's two-point-ohey.

Page is here.

Blogging is dead.

April 26, 2006 in Commentary, The Truth Hurts, Web Development by datapoohbah | No comments

Yes, now that anyone and their grandmother can blog, it’s dead.  Hell my dog can almost blog now with the tools that are available, but that doesn’t mean he should.

Read about it here.  Some big names are getting out of the blogging business.

In order to blog you have to have something to say and that’s not always easy. It takes time, effort and creativity.  There are too many people tossing up blogs, throwing on adwords and other ad mediums trying to make a buck.  They read about the few great successes here and there and want their 15 minutes of fame and a $1200 monthly check from Google.

It’s not that easy and that’s not what blogging is about.

This too shall pass.

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