Mar 08 2010

Feeling Rusty

For years I’ve wanted to turn my blog into a “tumble log” thing where I have different styles for different post types, and can share more of the crap I do/come across without writing a full blog entry. I started writing it, amongst other things, in my old blog. After various personal/health issues and a conversion to habari I put it on the back burner… but now I’m getting itchy fingers again.

So, cue me exploring the documentation for creating a habari content type. And now I’m sat here, gob open, begging for PHP refreshers in #habari because everything looks like code soup.

I am seriously rusty at this shit. Where’s Mat when I need him?

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Warning

This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.

As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.

Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.

8 Responses so far

  1. Aisling says: March 8, 2010 at 8:56 pm # ·

    I was talking about wanting to do that too. In the end, I just created http://tumblr.dreamling.ca, and integrated the design over there. Now I can tumble stuff all I want, without distracting from my main blog. Maybe when I have time to re-vamp my entire site (i.e. over summer vacation), I will integrate it fully, but for now it’s a good way to see exactly how much I actually USE it before trying to make it a permanent feature.

  2. Amelie says: March 8, 2010 at 9:50 pm # ·

    I feel your pain. 3 years of Ruby and next to nothing in PHP and I’m back to square 1 with it all :(

  3. manda.moore says: March 9, 2010 at 5:30 am # ·

    I’ve always just posted whatever to my blog.. it’s really random and I like it that way. I don’t have very many long posts but that’s ok. I’m really interested in seeing something like this as well – maybe a way to set icons for different post types would be something to bring over from Tumblr into this kind of Habari setup, but also mobile publishing would be a must.

  4. Mat says: March 9, 2010 at 10:01 am # ·

    I am here.

    If you need me for anything just email me. Easier than way.
    Otherwise we’ll organise some IRC soon :D

    Take care.

  5. Nnax says: March 9, 2010 at 11:41 am # ·

    If you feel like some practise you can help me with my php quandry!! *le sigh*

    I hate logic lol, its not my thing!

  6. Lilian says: March 10, 2010 at 12:20 pm # ·

    I know how to do the lifestream type blog in WordPress, but not in anything else. Good thing I’m not a developer, cause I would suck :p

  7. Louise says: March 10, 2010 at 1:20 pm # ·

    I’m so rusty with Flash… And I need to make a game this year. :(

  8. Grax says: March 11, 2010 at 11:02 am # ·

    I’ve been focusing on so much on Flash and ActionScript for the past 3 years I can barely remember how to program in any other language. The thought of trying to make any other web thingy seems rather daunting right now…