It’s been slow going getting another book deal. The publisher I’m currently talking with about a book on MySQL/PHP wants to include a provision in the contract to bill me if I’m paid royalties on books that eventually get returned from the book stores. Normally, the returns are more than compensated for by new book […]
Author: Shelley Powers
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Since I’m on a roll about women’s apparent invisibility in weblogging circles, well except when we’re naked or shoving our titties in front of the faces of the boys, I am curious: which women bloggers have been credentialed by the Democratic party to cover the Convention? We’ve already heard that […]
WordPress modifications
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rather than cover each modification I’ve made to WordPress 1.2 to run my site just so, I’m including them all here with links to downloadable source for those interested in implementing one or more of the changes. Very few of these changes fit into the criteria of ‘Wordpress plugin’, primarily because […]
Yes, where are the women
Eric Meyer had a recent request for CSS gurus for a potential book. I was getting down to the end of the list, thinking to myself, where are the women when I came across Molly Holzschlag asking the same question. I don’t understand why women in CSS are so overlooked, and when the two of us that have been mentioned […]
Cleaning House
Yesterday and today I’ve been cleaning out my server, including my weblog installation. I also brought Practical RDF back online, as a new WordPress weblog. I borrowed heavily from the Burningbird redesign for this new weblog; basically copying Deep Thoughts with the addition of the book cover and the muted background. I used an old trick to […]
