WP Themes: Lessons from Gangway
Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
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Within the past week I've called LightCMS "well-crafted" (Sreejith is a code artist), Cutline "workmanlike" (Chris Peterson's a problem solver), and ModernPaper "delightful" (Brian Gardner's unusually disciplined). Although they're very different in detail, all use the same basic CSS vocabulary for describing the document. Since I don't follow the CSS discussions, I don't know what standards someone's trying to enforce, but I've read enough code in my life to have preferences. CSS is a rather spare coding language, but you don't need to look at many stylesheets to learn that there are a variety of coding practices (normally I'd call these "styles," but that would be confusing), and that some of those practices are more readable than others. Gangway's style sheet fails the readability test.
WP Themes: Lessons from ModernPaper
Posted on Saturday, October 13, 2007 @ 9:14 am
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Behind the scenes, there's a slight surprise; Gardner's used the Home.php page the way most theme designers use Index.php, and Gardner's Index.php is used like most designers use Single.php. (That realization sent me to the Template Hierarchy, where I convinced myself that the design decision makes sense, though it's unconventional.) Opening the files to examine the code is delightful: Gardner writes clean, compact, and obvious code, uses XHTML tags as they're intended, and organizes things well. Needless to say, his CSS files are similarly impressive.
Rick Patterson
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 @ 9:06 pm
Filed Under BB Research Notes, Baseball
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So, where are we? We still need to fill in the gap between his playing career and his managerial career (that one will be hard unless I find the information in a South Bend program), and there are a couple one-year gaps where he was likely on some team's coaching staff (I can usually solve those). The pitching coach stint looks like I miscopied something, which has happened before. Loose ends: Was he working in baseball this summer? Did Patterson really play in the minors for three years; if so, where and when? And I need a couple biographical details: What do those initials stand for? When and where was he born? (I'm betting on Mobile, probably in 1955 or thereabouts.) Finally, we still need won/lost records for the partial season at Greensboro, his collegiate teams, and the winter league stints; that will be some other year's project, methinks.
WP Themes: Lessons from Cutline
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 7:04 pm
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Cutline is beautiful, but it's not the answer I'm looking for. Your mileage may well vary, because this is a very attractive theme; unfortunately, it runs up against some of my strong preferences.
Autumn, Mulliken Road
Posted on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
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Took this on yesterday's lunch break. Colors are finally changing....
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