SuperGeekery was originally designed in one furious evening of designing in Photoshop and coding in Expression Engine version 1.something. The speedy design and development was a product of equal parts overbooked schedule and typical procrastination.
I had arrived in Las Vegas at my first CES in January 2007, a geeky badge of honor to me, and felt compelled to write about the experience, but I didn't have my site built yet. That gave me the... + read on
During the past several months, I've had a little trouble with SuperGeekery, which is built on Expression Engine. I would often get blank white screens if I clicked through the site too quickly. I think this was always when I was logged in as a SuperAdmin and using the control panel. Asking site visitors, I don't know that anyone else was having the problem, but it happened to me regularly. I could also only get this to happen using... + read on
The redesign of SuperGeekery coincided with the release of Expression Engine 2 which gave me the opportunity to jump into the latest version of EE on a project that I was the client on, allowing me to be potentially break things without affecting a client. It also gave me the opportunity to try my hand at creating my first EE plugin. It's called SuperGeekery Tag Stripper and you're welcome to download the plugin and use it in your own projects,... + read on
There are a variety of ways to password protect pages online. Perhaps the easiest is to use an .htaccess file. The reason this is the easiest way is because it’s built into the control panel at many hosting companies. I use Dreamhost and it’s control panel makes it automatic. Sweet. If you don’t have that as part of your hosting package, check out this article at htmllite for a walk through on do it yourself.
What I don’t like about the... + read on
Another day, another EE tidbit. I wanted to export the entries from my blog in a simple text backup (MT Export Format). In the Expression Engine support wiki, there is an entry on how to do this in the 1.6.8 version, but I’m using 2.0.1 public beta. I had to do a few modifications to make it work in the new version. I posted my code on the Wiki, but if you ended up here looking for export tips, here’s how I did it.
First, as the wiki page... + read on
I’m rebuilding SuperGeekery behind the scenes. Along the way, I will try to post little tidbits I think might be helpful along the way.
I’ve spent the past 10 minutes formatting the dates for entries using microformats. That means wrapping the human-readable date that is displayed on a web site inside a <time> tag that is machine-readable. Here’s how you do that in Expression Engine.
<div class="date">
<time datetime="{entry_date... + read on
Back in October 2009, I wrote about research I was doing about building a portfolio site with Wordpress. (Read that post here.) That post was inspired a project we were talking about doing at JMX2 at that time. Several months have passed and we’ve built the site I was initially researching. It’s live and I’m happy to finally share it with you. Check out the new TRÜF Creative site at http://trufcreative.com.
(Note to WordPress folks: This... + read on
I’m a regular listener to Security Now!, the weekly TWIT podcast about security and privacy, primarily as it relates to being online. Last week’s episode #225 was about the ‘same origin policy’ issue.
What is the Same Origin Policy?
Wikipedia has a thorough write-up on same origin policy here, but I’ll give you the basics. It’s a matter of what files and processes trust each other on web sites. Basically, if files exist on the same domain,... + read on
I get a fair number of press releases sent to SuperGeekery pushing products. I don’t mention them very often though simply because this is my labor of love, not just my labor.
I received one today from F-Secure with their prediction of the most likely searched terms for cyber scams for holiday shoppers. I think it’s a pretty smart move on their part and a smart thing for people who shop online to be aware of. As I write this, it’s just a few... + read on
When Vista was released, I ended up getting 2 full copies of Vista Ultimate to install on my MacPro and my MacBook Pro. I use VMWare Fusion, although I’ve also used Parallels and recommend either to people who ask.
When Windows 7 was available for pre-order, I bought 2 upgrade copies. I decided against getting another ‘Ultimate’ version though. I chose ‘Pro’ because it was all I needed. I’m not the first and I won’t be the last to say it either,... + read on
SuperGeekery was originally designed in one furious evening of designing in Photoshop and coding in Expression Engine version 1.something. The speedy design and development was a product of equal parts overbooked schedule and typical procrastination.
I had arrived in Las Vegas at my first CES in January 2007, a geeky badge of honor to me, and felt compelled to write about the experience, but I didn't have my site built yet. That gave me the... + read on
During the past several months, I've had a little trouble with SuperGeekery, which is built on Expression Engine. I would often get blank white screens if I clicked through the site too quickly. I think this was always when I was logged in as a SuperAdmin and using the control panel. Asking site visitors, I don't know that anyone else was having the problem, but it happened to me regularly. I could also only get this to happen using... + read on
The redesign of SuperGeekery coincided with the release of Expression Engine 2 which gave me the opportunity to jump into the latest version of EE on a project that I was the client on, allowing me to be potentially break things without affecting a client. It also gave me the opportunity to try my hand at creating my first EE plugin. It's called SuperGeekery Tag Stripper and you're welcome to download the plugin and use it in your own projects,... + read on
There are a variety of ways to password protect pages online. Perhaps the easiest is to use an .htaccess file. The reason this is the easiest way is because it’s built into the control panel at many hosting companies. I use Dreamhost and it’s control panel makes it automatic. Sweet. If you don’t have that as part of your hosting package, check out this article at htmllite for a walk through on do it yourself.
What I don’t like about the... + read on
Another day, another EE tidbit. I wanted to export the entries from my blog in a simple text backup (MT Export Format). In the Expression Engine support wiki, there is an entry on how to do this in the 1.6.8 version, but I’m using 2.0.1 public beta. I had to do a few modifications to make it work in the new version. I posted my code on the Wiki, but if you ended up here looking for export tips, here’s how I did it.
First, as the wiki page... + read on
I’m rebuilding SuperGeekery behind the scenes. Along the way, I will try to post little tidbits I think might be helpful along the way.
I’ve spent the past 10 minutes formatting the dates for entries using microformats. That means wrapping the human-readable date that is displayed on a web site inside a <time> tag that is machine-readable. Here’s how you do that in Expression Engine.
<div class="date">
<time datetime="{entry_date... + read on
Back in October 2009, I wrote about research I was doing about building a portfolio site with Wordpress. (Read that post here.) That post was inspired a project we were talking about doing at JMX2 at that time. Several months have passed and we’ve built the site I was initially researching. It’s live and I’m happy to finally share it with you. Check out the new TRÜF Creative site at http://trufcreative.com.
(Note to WordPress folks: This... + read on
I’m a regular listener to Security Now!, the weekly TWIT podcast about security and privacy, primarily as it relates to being online. Last week’s episode #225 was about the ‘same origin policy’ issue.
What is the Same Origin Policy?
Wikipedia has a thorough write-up on same origin policy here, but I’ll give you the basics. It’s a matter of what files and processes trust each other on web sites. Basically, if files exist on the same domain,... + read on
When Vista was released, I ended up getting 2 full copies of Vista Ultimate to install on my MacPro and my MacBook Pro. I use VMWare Fusion, although I’ve also used Parallels and recommend either to people who ask.
When Windows 7 was available for pre-order, I bought 2 upgrade copies. I decided against getting another ‘Ultimate’ version though. I chose ‘Pro’ because it was all I needed. I’m not the first and I won’t be the last to say it either,... + read on