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  • In the words of Ryan:

    WordPress sold finished fish sandwiches while Textpattern and its successors teach fishing and provide a large lake.

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  • After the David McCandless (of Information is beautiful fame) talk last week, I’ve had a look at some of the tools described.

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  • This one at Mashable is a bit old, but got me thinking

    If not Foundation, what else?

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  • The default txp theme on Github has a lot of partials

    …to adjust the gradients it’s all in /sass/core/_settings.scss ;no overrides, just rewrite this lot

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  • Just as I’m finally embracing Twitter and putting a feed on the site, with Kevin Potts again leading the way, linking to two plugins…

    …I’m reminded of why I was such a slow adopter in the first place by Michael Bester (author of kimili of the plugin fame)…

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  • In the SCSS these exist as 

    $primary-color: #008CBA;
$secondary-color: #e7e7e7;
$alert-color: #f04124;
$success-color: #43AC6A;
$warning-color: #f08a24;
$info-color: #a0d3e8;

    …and can therefore be overwritten in _overrides.scss and ‘watched’ with Compass

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  • Colorzilla has a CSS/SCSS mixin generator, and can spit out multiple browser versions with solid colour fall-back : -)

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  • Okay, so it’s a bit like casting spells, but when everything’s up and running (Windows or OSX, so cmd or Terminal, and got Ruby smiling on both …actually with OSX being the biggest pain to get the right version), there are a couple of super commands at my disposal

    foundation new MY_PROJECT

    and, once CD-ed into that directory,

    compass watch

    How good is that?

    Oh, and all overrides go into the _overrides.scss partial :-))

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  • Sounds like a Rush album, but getting into this again now… This is the future, and it’s already here. To ignore this any longer would be foolish indeed. In fact, I feel like I’ve been staring at the iPhone of the CMS/Blog world, and moaning about the lack of buttons!

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  • No-one likes it when you’re too successful.

    Roger is a brilliant tennis player, possibly the best ever. He’s worth millions. And yet even here the feeling I get when I see him wearing a Rolex is one of wanting to poke him in the eye.

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  • iOS7 was the latest (last straw?) in a series of things to have been upgraded/updated to something which I consider to be worse than what was there before…

    This is a regular irritant to me: taking a really good design and making it different and ending up with something worse.

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  • Read some great stuff today, and it seems that whilst hiding in my cave, things have moved on for the better…

    I think I was Googling the (latest) best practice for iPhone and related contraption styling, which I found a rich seam at CSS Wizardry

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  • Kenny Dalglish has gone, but Stevie G is England captain.

    WordPress has taken over the known universe, and yet Textpattern is making me smile again.

    The first article I read from Kevin Potts about Communicating Design made me smile and I even got the jokes…

    A nice Kevin Potts Calendar tutorial

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  • If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking… As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it

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  • Thunderbird intermediary seems to crop up in my Googling

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  • An online place to test how cra less special sites look in Internet Explorer

    I think the bug sorry feature is in IE6 as described at positioniseverything

    And the fix is insane

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  • One thing that’s sometimes bugged me on Windows is there’s no native way to check the MD5 Hash…

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  • One from Stef

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  • As discussed previously, there are three ways I can think of to achieve the calendar reminder thingee:

    prezi

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  • The choice seems simple : Drupal or Joomla!
    And the hard part is which one?

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  • Well, the new interface design was all lovely… and then I realised the ability to hide comments was no longer there! Which would be fine if it was only me who had to read the endless drivel…

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  • Well, at the moment Feb 25, 2010, XAMPP isn’t available for 64-bit Windows 7… so I’ve switched camps to WAMP (Actually now called WampServer )

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  • Beyond a certain size (not very big) and when there’s a certain messiness (i.e. in the real world), neat hierarchies (sections and subsections don’t quite work). Instead a fuzzier approach often works better E.g. Flickr’s tags are key to its self-organisation and findabilty.

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  • There’s a lovely looking plugin, with – the best bit – detailed instructions from yablo

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  • Well, I don’t think I’ll ever make a bomb disposal expert…

    However, for sub £25 I have gone from 512Mb Ram to 2Gb! (And isn’t it diddly?)

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  • Well, really enjoyed reading David Weinberger’s book Everything is Miscellaneous …and am now a lot clearer about how the web is different from Encyclopaedia Britannica and works better in its vastness because of it’s messiness.

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  • One of the WordPress strengths that is regularly mentioned is ‘Themes’: the ease with which different themes can be downloaded and installed. There are loads of themes to choose from and installation instructions, too.

    Anyway, the legendary 5 minute installation is kinda like that… but there are some serious funnies

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  • Or some such thing – I did briefly tinker with Adobe Lightroom a while ago, and am back facing the pit of doom again i.e. I’ve got a lot of photos which are currently organised by date… they also have meta data on Flickr, too.

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  • The thing I was actually after was a way to manage local files with the same tags I use for Flickr

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  • Summary of where we are at

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