sandwichesandapples

Sandwiches and Apples is now optimized for the iPhone.

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I read blogs through Google Reader because I follow more than 200 blogs and I couldn’t do that without using some kind of aggregation tool. One of the great benefits of using Reader is that all the blogs I read are equalized in design — every one is displayed in Google’s default Reader style, not the individual blog’s design. This gives every blog a very plain text feel. (continue reading…)

Just updated the WordPress app for iPhone. A couple of bugs:
1) it deleted the blog information I’d set before so I have to re-add my blogs to it

2) some graphic issues

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Just added the new wordpress app for the iPhone and I’m stoked to start mobile blogging. This should make the comiccon reports way more fun.

I’m researching / experimenting with open source ecommerce solutions, specifically ones that run in PHP on MySQL. My host company, Dreamhost, provides a one-click install of Zen Cart but I’ve heard that one’s a bit difficult to customize.

I’d heard of Freeway recently but wasn’t really impressed with them. Then there’s the Market Theme, an ecommerce solution for WordPress. But you’ve got to buy that one. It’s cheap and I’m necessarily looking for free but the whole idea of paying for something to add to WordPress seems antithetical to me.

Then yesterday, I found Magento which blows me away. I’m installing it now to put it through its paces. I can’t wait to see how it holds up to ASPStoreFront (my firm’s default ecommerce solution and a ridiculously heavy and user-unfriendly platform that runs on Windows very much not open source server). I’ll let you know.

I was hired recently (does it count as being hired if you’re never paid?) to troubleshoot a bug with videos not appearing in Firefox. The situation was this: a client was using the hack described by Justin Tadlock here to add YouTube videos to the sidebar of his WordPress blog. The hack uses WordPress’s “custom field” to create a video category and display the video in the sidebar with a smaller than standard width. (continue reading…)