I don’t really use Textpattern at the moment, but I had been curious about it so I thought I’d give it a shot. Having recently ditched Apache for an LNMP-stacked VPS, I wanted to see if the spry little CMS would be compatible with Nginx without going through a gauntlet of issues. It’s especially important [...]
I’ve been using Media Temple for well over a year now, specifically the Grid Service. While it’s a great service for people looking to get hosted on a budget, it’s a bit lacking on the control side of things, and I really felt the need to move out of the cloud and into a VPS. [...]
The very theme this site is now using, which was originally created for and implemented over at Loupe, is now publicly available. The theme is not for the kind of WordPress bloggers out there who use widgets or masses of plugins for their sites. I personally detest those things, and I know there are many [...]
Oddly enough, this isn’t purely sarcasm. First thing’s first, you’ve got to get your hands on one of the newest iterations of the Pokémon game franchise — either Soulsilver or Heartgold. They’re basically revved-up, remixed and rebuilt DS-platform releases of the now ancient Gold and Silver versions of the game from about a decade ago. [...]
A while ago (sometime last year that I don’t remember anymore) I came across a quick blurb in a now long-forgotten Google blog entry telling users exactly how to get their names verified for their Google Profile pages. It’s really simple, and free — the whole thing’s furnished by Knol, which has itself become somewhat [...]
The Snow Leopard Login Screen Apple is good at designing things simply and beautifully enough that users generally make little to no changes to their UI — but let’s face it, that space background gets pretty old after the first thousand logins, and they really should have included the login screen aesthetics in the system [...]