General

New look and feel

I’ve switched from TextPattern to Typo. So far I’m loving the change. I’d been wanting to switch to Typo a long time ago, but either never got a theme going that I liked, or I didn’t take the time to set it up in my production environment.

Things seem to be running much faster. I think this might be because of DreamHost’s use of Passenger for rails apps. The caching by Typo also seems to be better than TextPattern’s. I’ve still got support for Textile, but have a much better look and feel, and easier to manage UI. Comments are better spam filtered now, so they should automatically post most of the time.

This design is adopted from the Lead WordPress Theme. I love its minimalism, I’m much happier with how things look now. I had to migrate the theme for Typo, which was actually pretty easy. If you’d like a copy of the theme, let me know.

I’ve also added support for syntax highlighting for my code samples using SyntaxHighlighter. It’s wonderful, except that, in order for < and > characters to be rendered correctly, I have to wrap the code in script tags, which do not degrade well. Regardless, I like how it looks, much better than before with just using raw pre tags. Here’s a sample of the new highlighting:

I’ve updated the About page with more ways to follow me and some new contact information.[…]

Published on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:27
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Recent Activity

I’ll use recent activity in no particular order to suffice an update.

I submitted this Django snippet.

I created this fork of this project.

I increased the font size on shellsage.com because of this very good blog post.

I submitted this Django bug, which, despite protest, has been closed. I don’t think “we don’t really have a good way to track ‘things we need to do for v2.0’” is a valid reason to close (aka discard) a ticket that details a valid enhancement. Besides this, the Django project should drop trac and use redmine, github, or bitbucket.

I switched to gvim from emacs.

I experimented with Pylons and hated it, not because I disliked its architecture or what it had to offer, but because it was extraordinarily difficult for me to implement user authentication without completely rolling my own; this in my mind is a completely pointless redundancy. I tried the suggested packages too, there were SQLAlchemy version incompatibilities. I wish this hadn’t been the case, I’d like to try mako templates instead of django templates, I think (yes, I know I can use mako in django, I’ll try it sometime.)

I finished up my work on bil. Unfortunately this probably means the project is about to die.

I’m finishing up my work on pcann-time-series. The only thing I have left to do is deal with some array indexing issues that have a lot of variables involved.[…]

Published on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:03
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