Get some more coal, it’s time to fire up the old blog engine
I haven’t been blogging for ages – it’s time to fix that. Let’s start with a recap of last night.
The monthly philly.rb meetup at the Comcast Center: how good were the presentations? They were just as good as the view from our room on the 45th floor:
View from the 45th floor of the Comcast Center, where we had the philly.rb monthly meetupI got a lot out of Nate Olds’ talk, “Refactoring with a View.” A large part of my career has been spent wrestling with big, old, sprawling, messy codebases, so Nate’s real-life walk-through of his strategies for dealing with such challenges was very informative. Check out the February meetup page for more information.
Afterwards, a group of us went to Ladder 15 for beer, where we met up with Maria. She stoically suffered through several minutes of extremely nerdy conversion, before she and I headed to the Boot & Saddle, for a rare evening out without the boys, to see one of Maria’s favorite bands, Cibo Matto. It was a sold out show, and we ended up stuck near the back, but it was still a good time. I tried to take a couple videos, but they didn’t come out. A good introduction to their utterly goofy side is the song Sci Fi Wasabi (I’m Miho Hatori, straight out of purgatory), and their split-screen video for Sugar Water, with one side portraying the visual story in reverse, is quite clever (the ending is in the middle).
I’m presenting at the WordPress ‘Burbs meetup next Monday on Kanban. And on March 1 I’m presenting at WordCamp Lancaster: A11Y? I18N? L10N? UTF8? WTF? Understanding the connections between accessibility, internationalization, localization, and character sets.
Awesome blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A theme like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make my blog shine.
Please let me know where you got your design.
Thank you
Sorry for the late reply, My theme is a heavily customized version of a theme called “Sustainable,” which doesn’t seem to be available anywhere anymore. I made it mobile-friendly, and the category based navigation on the home page and sidebar are my own work. I didn’t make it portable though – I have hardcoded category IDs in the theme files (ideally there’d be a management page for them). If you’re up for some hacking I’m happy to share it with you – let me know.