Final VMware Post

…on this site, anyway.

Per a suggestion I’ve opened a new site: Virtual Andy. If you’re interested in the VMware side of things, it’s your place to go. I’ve also updated all of the VMware related posts on here to link to the posts on that site.

Survey Says…

No more delicious links.

More personal posts.

I’ve also toyed around with a VMware/virtualization only site… we’ll see if I ever get that off the ground.

Pet Peeve: Bug No. 4958372

Symptoms: Referring to a blog post as a blog. e.g., “In this blog I will show you” or “In my earlier blog titled N”

Affected: People new to blogging, particularly users over 30.

Fix: Call it a freaking POST. Blogs are made of posts.

They Upgraded, I’m getting it out there

So I’m working on getting everything working so I can test.

Lessons learned so far:

-Develop on the platform you’re implement on. Since I was developing this entirely locally with a WAMP server, I’ve run into a few quirks. Mainly with my inconsistent instantiation $nav = new Navigation(); versus $nav = new navigation(); — with PHP’s autoload function it was causing my stuff to die.

- Again with platform… backslashes versus forward slashes … ugh. Let’s also remember some servers have magic quotes enabled and some do not, in case you’re inserting to a database…

- Load times are a little slower than I was hoping for… I am going to try it later tonight to see if it’s an issue here, an application issue, or a dreamhost issue.

WordPress.com Rocks

Since “outsourcing” my blog to wordpress.com, I’ve got to say I’m impressed. Their stats package is great and they have little addins that make life a lot easier.

For instance…Songs and Movies on WordPress.com motivated me to update my old posts with mp3 files in them – now they have inline players:

• Needs More Vibraslap
• Vocal Stylings
• All in the Key
• 311 Throws Down

Phasing out the Linkrolls

Instead of having the linkrolls take up the huge chunk of real-estate on each page, I’m experimenting with delicious’ XML-RPC posting interface.

I’ll let you know how it goes =)

To the Right

No, I’m not going to denounce my liberal views [like another sell-out I know].

Not yet anyway.

I’m just toying around with an idea for a redesign.

Excuse the mess. Pardon the [delicious absence].

Site Resolutions

The Bofe Blog has been receiving some much needed TLC over my holiday break from school/work. In 2005, I hope to accomplish these goals with the site:

• Write more betterer – clear, articulate, and well-thought out entries
• Increase reader involvement – I’m working on revamping comment display
• Contribute original content – less blogsphere echoing
• Redesign the blog – keep the logos, ditch the one column layout
• Create ‘smarter’ archives – including cleaning up ‘legacy’ entries
• Post >=1 entry per week
• Publish less tech evangelism – publish more tutorials like ’[The little things in life]’
• Integrate the [linkblog] – the linkblog is a valuable tool, it’s time to show it off.
• Decide on capitalization – the bofe blog vs. The Bofe Blog.
• Stop the journaling – only make entries that are germane to readers that do not know me.

Each of these goals can be accomplished with some work. [Last year I set some goals] for the site and I think I’ve accomplished most of them.

Here’s to another year of the bofe blog… or will it be The Bofe Blog?

Tweaking 404s for Gallery

Expounding on my already brilliant handling of 404 errors, I’ve decided to take it a step further.

The default search is still running through MT(Movable Type) to see if there’s a blog entry that mentions the words in the URL except for when there’s an image file extension (.png, .jpg, .gif)

So, if you go to http://www.bofe.org/stats.jpg it will search my gallery’s script for your term. If for some reason you’re interested in seeing my code for this, feel free to contact me.

I find it exceedingly handy considering I spent about 3 hours of today reorganizing the gallery.

TypeKey Not Required

One of my readers said that the comments on my site have died since I’ve required TypeKey registration. So I thought I’d let you all know:

It’s not REQUIRED, it’s just encouraged.

That’s all.