Blog on Red Leopard

Javascript DOM Listeners

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:52:34 +0000

I’ve wanted to build a simple gallery viewer for some time. “But there are thousands of already built viewers,” you may be thinking. Yes there are. But I wanted a simple viewer that was at once trés snappy and minimalist.

I dislike the gallery systems that open another window or create a floating panel which must be dismissed. I wanted a simple picture portal with simple thumbnails. I wanted something that didn’t require jacking javascript or event listeners directly into the html. It had to be easy to use with wordpress.

WordPress plugin problem

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:01:05 +0000

When I moved to wordpress, I purposely picked a theme with paged listings. Of course, I also started with the latest v. 2.7 release. (Actually 2.7 rc2, then an upgrade).

The paged navigation at the bottom of the content section did not work. I tried to install the wp-pagenavi plugin but wordpress complained that the anjing theme had already defined wp_pagenavi().

I’m new to wordpress (and don’t know PHP well) but I do know how to comment out code.

The Jump to WordPress

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:18:10 +0000

I finally made the jump from moveable type to wordpress. The hardest step was porting the old posts. Whereas I created posts using UTF-8 encoded characters, moveable type did a dumb convert of the characters into Latin-1 when storing them MySQL. Since the path out of the database and to the page was a reverse process, when viewing pages the characters would reappear as UTF-8.

However, when exporting the data from moveable type, the round-trip was broken. The characters in MySQL were not really proper Latin-1 characters. None of the recommended processes I found through google worked for me. I’ve had to deal with this problem at work last year. The memory of that pain makes me flinch.

More site tweaks

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:44:44 +0000

I haven’t made many visible tweaks to the redleopard site since June. This isn’t to say that things weren’t going on ‘behind the scenes’. Here’s what’s happened.

CSS Changes [check]

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:18:06 +0000

I made the css change in less than a month. It consisted of two changes.

New Style Needed

Thu, 22 May 2003 05:04:46 +0000

I’m sick of the Red Leopard style sheet. Expect to see a new CSS.

Moveable Type Rules

Thu, 22 May 2003 05:01:26 +0000

I’ve spent the past several nights getting my sister site up and running. After cursing MT, I’ve come to love it. I’m hooked.

Online (sort of)

Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:05:08 +0000

About the time I decided to convert the redleopard site to a blog, I switched back to the Mac. That’s when my problems began – but not for the reasons you may be thinking.