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#blog Posts

I am Addicted to Redoing my Blog

Posted in blog, development, and tumblr

It is sad how much I redo my blog. I usually redo it more than I actually blog. Then I get it going and then get an idea for a new one and stop on the old one. So here is my new attempt at my blog. I think I am switching off Tumblr as much as I love it. I'll leave my old one up at samsoffes.tumblr.com incase you're still interested.

I still need to write some stuff to do rss and such. Hopefully I'll get to that real soon. Sorry for breaking your feed readers again.

Enjoy the new look. I doubt it will be around long.

Yay For RSS and Kohana

Posted in blog, development, kohana, and php

So I just put together some code real quick for building my RSS feed. I think I am finally going to make my own engine in Kohana like I've talked about for so long.

I really need to write an admin panel or I know I wont use it. Hopefully I'll get time to do that soon. I guess I should add commenting too.

Simple Pagination and Commenting Ideas

Posted in blog, comments, and development

I was playing with the new Twitter last night when I got the idea to redo my blog colors to match my my Twitter profile colors. I got kinda bored and and decided to add pagination to my blog.

I like how my pagination is simple. Unlike Digg and Google, I decided to just have two buttons and an indicator of where you currently are. In a blog sort of format, I doubt you'll be wanting to rapid advance through the pages, so I removed the feature to keep it simple and why build something if only 5% of your users use it? Keeping it simple.

What do you think? Like the new stuff? O wait no comments yet, ha. I guess once I add commenting, I will have somewhat of a full featured blog. We'll see how much free time I have this weekend to build it. I was thinking about using Disqus, but I want a simpler solution and looks really clean, which isn't easy to achieve with the Disqus API.