How not to build an in-house CMS

Posted: November 17th, 2008 | Author: jonathan | Filed under: blogging, business, curmudgeon, development | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments »

It’s so easy to create a content managed website these days that it’s often equally easy to be paralysed by choice. This journal runs on WordPress, and uses a modified version of a theme by MidMo Web Design. It took all of 20 minutes from download to test-posting into this theme.

Picking the engine itself, though, has taken about 2 years, and was based on one thing: immediacy. Read the rest of this entry »

Providing multiple feeds

Posted: November 11th, 2008 | Author: jonathan | Filed under: blogging, code | No Comments »

100px-Feed-icon.svg.pngLike everyone else these days, I have multiple feeds that encompass my online life. My main site, relativesanity.com, serves as a home page for all these feeds, so that friends and family have a single place to visit if the want to see what I’m up to. But we live in the age of Google Reader and NetNewsWire. Who wants to visit a site any more? Read the rest of this entry »