As i wrote in a previous post, i converted this blog from WordPress to Drupal a couple of months back – to get some experience of working with Drupal. But i never liked Drupal and i rapidly came to the conclusion that it’s really not a good platform for a standalone blog. WordPress beats it hands down on all criteria and i didn’t particularly enjoy having to maintain this blog on the Drupal platform. … Read more »
In a blog post about his “Starkers” WordPress theme, designer Elliot Jay Stocks talks about how he used to approach designing for WordPress. He would start with the default theme and remove the bits he didn’t need. That was pretty much how i started off doing it myself – until it struck me i was going about things back to front. … Read more »
I think i had the basic idea about object oriented programming back in the early 80s – when i was an assembler programmer. Back then, i tried to make my code as modular and reusable as possible. But, in those days, at least, writing in assembly language didn’t give you much scope for optimising code in that way – the best i could do was use lots of subroutines. … Read more »
While i was watching Douglas Crockford’s talk on Ajax performance on the Yahoo developer network site yesterday, it occurred to me that the Ajax dropdown search suggestion list i wrote for a client’s site (mentioned in an earlier blog post) was rather inefficient in the way it handled the XMLHTTP requests. … Read more »