View from the Potting Shed

Photo by ravennce
Sorry about the lack of proper blogging over the last few days. I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing: I’m looking for the right content management software for a website project I’m working on.
So I’m spending the evenings either trawling through web pages of documentation, trawling through pages of books about specific content […]

I have Another Potting Shed!
For the last few days I’ve been experimenting with another blog, hosted on WordPress.com, using it much like a “microblog”: short, informal, blether-like posts.
I’ve had that WordPress.com blog for a couple of years now, but not done anything with it. I originally signed-up for it out of curiosity, to see […]

WordPress viewed on Windows Mobile Pocket Internet Explorer
So there I was, lying in bed with my newly reset PDA phone wondering: could I write a blog post using just my mobile phone, a WiFi connection and include images.
I guess so.

The new design for the WordPress login.
The latest version of the WordPress blogging / personal publishing software tool has just been released: WordPress 2.1 Ella. The current 2.x releases are being named after jazz musicians: the last was called ‘Duke’, after Duke Ellington; this one is called ‘Ella’, after Ella Fitzgerald.
Generally it’s faster, slicker and […]

I got up early this morning so that I could get a couple of hours of web development in before Jane rose and we had to get involved in Operation Clear Kadesh.
Which was a nice plan … but it has just taken me 90 minutes to work out why I couldn’t login to my new […]

Hoorah! My blog has changed completely, and yet nothing has.
This evening I took a break from writing and upgraded my blog to the latest version of WordPress (2.0.4). And while I was at it I updated my plugins too. So now the backend (the bit I get to see) is happy and […]

This last week I’ve been loving my new job, but I’ll write more about that soon. Each evening, sometimes into the small hours, I’ve been locking myself away in my nice, cozy study and working on finishing the documentation for the SEC website.
I’m pleased to announce that this afternoon I finished it all, having […]