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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

WordPress 2.5: Looks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though I will be using Drupal for portions of my site, I’m still debating whether to continue using WordPress for purely weblog activities, such as at RealTech. I decided to download the WordPress 2.5 release candidate 1, give it a run. I’ve moved most of my XHTMLating work to plug-ins, […]

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Specs Web

Joel Spolsky: Crap is good

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joel Spolksy just spent several thousand words and accompanying diagrams saying one thing: we did things crappy in the past, and we should continue doing things crappy in the future because crap is easy. Where do I start? This upcoming battle will be presided over by Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft veteran currently […]

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Technology Weblogging

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5: First, install Drupal

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Anil Dash had a clever and humorous, as well as telling, guide titled, A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide. His advice? As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade. To Movable Type. I wasn’t even aware that a 2.5 upgrade […]

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SVG

ACIDBird

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today’s design is based on the Open Road SVG image that was just uploaded. This SVG image is ideal for a background, because it lends itself to morphing. It’s also a horizontal image, which works better for a background image. The image is adding into the page in such a way that […]

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Web

Up Down browsers

A new beta version of Firefox is out. Chances are if you’re running beta 3, you already received a notice of beta 4. The new release has done interesting things with the toolbar. Unfortunately, it may have some roughness with SVG embedded using the object element. We’ll see. On the down side, Microsoft’s new IE8 […]