An outlet for the stirring thoughts, trivial projects, and complex problems I am contemplating on the road trip that is my life. With one hand on the wheel and scratching my head with the other.
To say I’m a fan of the Hot Wing is a bit of an understatement. I’m certain the fact that Hot Wings always seemed to be served with a few of your good friends, draft beer, and celery might have something to with my uncontrollable craving for them. Well nothing makes an addict happier than to be able create your own supply.
I humbly offer my meager contribution to the multitude of Hot Wing recipes. Read the rest of this entry »
In my part-time approach to web-site development I have always looked to create or use solutions that made it easy for contributors. Never wanting to supply the content myself (hence the once-a-quarter updates to my own blog) I made use of solutions that did not have a requirement to know HTML. My customers are small business owners, church staff, and friends who rarely have a passion to populate a website but a strong desire to have a web presence.
So as always I work myself to death to integrate my design and application into very author-friendly web sites with a strong tendency to provide greater flexibility and scalability than likely the customer will ever use. My good friend Mark Thoney of Wyolution.com often asks me, Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been hacking away at a Wordpress implementation for my church, Immanuel Lutheran. To be more accurate I have been customizing a WordPress theme for their Wordpress site. I am incorporating a DHTML menu solution from Deluxe Menu as well as implementing my own Side Bar asides for individual pages. The hurtle of late has been how to default to showing what top level tab was active in the menu when a user was 2 or more levels deep. Second to that was knowing what aside text to show at that level when no aside was given to that page.
So its been almost a week since bringing home the wife’s new iMac. Well, she would argue that I’m only using her as the excuse since it was my hard earned cash bonus from work that some how drug me down to the local Apple store and excitedly leaped from my pocket into the hands of the hip 20’somthing with pressed black t-shirt and adorned Apple logo. Figuring the lies we tell ourselves never hurt anyone i’m going to stick with the story that it was not my desire to own this brushed white silver piece of pure simplistic elegance… err, I mean her iMac. Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to my adventure into ‘Wordpress‘. I’m turning over a new leaf of sorts and dumping my home grown content management system (CMS), siteSimple. It’s been a long run and I expect it will continue to work as long as the platform supports it and my customers keep using it.
Here’s to hoping you enjoy this adventure with me and my Blog’o'Blather.