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Considering Switching to Wordpress.com

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on January 2, 2008
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I love WordPress. I love the guy who started it, and am love with in the network that has been created at WordPress.com. (Note: WordPress.com is the network, WordPress.org is the place to download the source of the WordPress bloggin software) Automattic, the company founded by Matt, creates not only the blogging platform but also Akismet, the tried-and-true workhorse of the Internet for catching comment spam… which I’m glad for its existence.

Maybe it’s the fact that Automattic took off around the time I had my PHP blog site going… or something. I don’t know. But really, I support his (or their, I don’t know enough about the history of the company… I should find that out) push towards having the platform be open source (and I don’t like how Six Apart took this long to take the jump).

Moving to Wordpress.com from Dreamhost

I really don’t want to code for the blog, other than the template. I think WordPress has matured enough for me to move this into the Clouds, so to speak.

What I mean by that is I won’t have to manually update the php code myself. Dreamhost does have a very nice button I can click on now and then, but WordPress.com would push out the updates on me, regardless if I like it or not. I wouldn’t have to even think about what version number we’re at (unless I have a problem… but I trust them).

But more importantly, I’ll be hooked into the network of the bloggers that are on the system. Yes, I have technorati and feeds, but this is just another way to get my stuff out there.

Sweet. Now to pick a time and date to do the move. Maybe I’ll blog that experience, too.

Oh Look, They Did It For Me

Pros and Cons

One huge HUGE con is I can’t use Markdown for adding markup to the pages. This is a huge HUGE problem. I don’t know if I can go back to typing out HTML anymore.

Alas, more to think about…

WordPress Related Fun: TextMate Blogging Bundle’s Time Zone Bug and UltimateTagWarrior

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on December 31, 2007
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REMINDER TO SELF: Times are finally set to the correct Central Standard Time.

This is more of a summary post on what I’ve been doing with this Wordpress installation.

Tags Galore

I’ve finally taken some time with Wordpress, and it seems like Ultimate Tag Warrior is no more. Luckily, Wordpress has nice importers from people who used other tagging plugins in the past.

There are still a few bugs I have to work out with the code I changed when I did use UTW.

TextMate Time Zone Blogging Bundle Issue

I noticed this a while back, but never really looked into it. After poking around the int3rw3bz0rz, it seems like there was an actual bug with the timestamps.

Sidenote: Blogging Bundle. Holy crap, get some nested comments… or a forum… or SOMETHING ELSE. This is seriously why I think blog comments are broken, but that’s another project idea for another day.

Regardless, this is what you want. From the MacroMates wiki:

Specifying Date Created

There has been a few problems related to correct dates. This comes from the fact that the dateCreated argument (in the XML-RPC protocol) has no time zone info, and until WordPress 2.2 it was interpreted mostly as server time.

Starting with WordPress 2.2 this field is GMT and dates should be offset correctly.

Unfortunately WordPress 2.2.1 introduced a Z in the date format which breaks Ruby 1.8.2’s XML-RPC parser — so if you use WordPress 2.2.1 then you need to update your installed Ruby version. If you have MacPorts installed then you can run sudo port install ruby and update your PATH. See RubyVersionIssues for help with that.

Even more unfortunately, the next version of WordPress will revert its date handling to before 2.2 and so, after that release, dates will again use the wrong offset.

Just need to be really careful and just set the timestamp in the “Date” field by adding the appropriate amount of offset. For this post, I would have to add 6 hours to the hour every time I update to make sure I’m not adding a 6 hour offset.

Wordpress 2.3.2

Updated. Feels good to be back in the blogging game.

Google Reader “Plug-in” for *ANY* Website

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on July 2, 2007
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You know, it took me long enough… seeing as how much I read the feeds on a daily basis:

From your 179 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 13,522 items, starred 296 items, and shared 0 items.

Finally, the site has list of the most recent starred items I found to be interesting. I’ve always wanted to share my recent feed links with the rest of the world. Think of it as a JK filter.

I thought that this was available through a Wordpress Plug-in (I think it was called “hacks” back in the day), but actually, it’s just two script tags that you can add to any page on the Internet.

Google RSS Reader Shared Links

Just go to settings, and click on “add a clip to your site”. Whoo hoo!

Now, get to reading all those lovely posts on the iPhone and Facebook’s platform.

Silly Mistake: Redirecting

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on March 22, 2007
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I didn’t know this, but there’s a tiny movement against having “www” subdomain in links. Just visit no www to read up on some of the reasons why.

>Succinctly, use of the www subdomain is redundant and time consuming to communicate. The internet, media, and society are all better off without it.

The reason why the site was “down” for the better part was yesterday was that I installed this: no-www wordpress plugin. The silly mistake I committed was that I forgot when I set up JoshKim.org, I had asked for any request to “joshkim.org” to be sent to “www.joshkim.org”.

If you visited either one of those links, you would bounce back and forth… and back and forth… and back and forth… until the browser gave up on the request. I don’t know about you, but I got this strange looking error that wasn’t a 404 or anything I’ve seen before.

I realized this error after finding out that there wasn’t any server outage reports on the Dreamhost Status Page.

Just a heads up to those that might want to follow with the rest of the Internet in making it a “www”-less world… and so that those people won’t make the same mistake as I did.

The Obligatory Daily Post

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on January 11, 2007
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Let me tell you about today… I woke up. Did work. Ate Lunch. Did some more work. Went to WIMPE. Ate Dinner.

However, my daily routine changed a bit when I got to hang out with Derek, my ISR roommate from freshman year. We just ended up talking about the new CS coursework requirements and the new things in ourlives. Then we dived into Guitar Hero 2 and some co-op play of Splinter Cell, like the nerds we are.

Now, mind you… I haven’t played an FPS since… well… I guess if you count the time I randomly sat down in front of Colin Das’s computer to play CS… about two months. But it’s something about playing a game with someone… and a game that’s as good as Splinter Cell… that brings two hardcore nerds together.

Why do I write this? I realized again that I really am who I am. I am a nerd. Period. I’m probably going to enjoy some type of real-time interactive simulation until the day I die, regardless of how the older population thinks about such “frivolous” things. I also understood… how far I’ve come in not being just a nerd. I kinda fell out of the hardcore gaming life a while back… I mean, I don’t even have a Wii right now…

Currently, my TODO file is getting larger and larger. Just today, I moved all the posts from my wordpress.com account to here. I also asked Alex to install Gallery on this server. There should be some large changing coming to this blog… soon… but I’m not going to make promises like last time and look like an idiot.

Updates will come when they come.

And dizang, I’m tired. Must… wake… up… early…