New Theme

If you have actually browsed to the site to read this post you will have noticed that Mike’s Musings has had a fresh coat of paint, also if you’ve read my previous entry you will have noticed that it is not the theme that I mocked up. In the end I thought that the first theme was not a good fit for the site, though one day I might turn it into a real theme.

The motivation for changing the theme in the end came down to a mixture of the following factors:

Fluid Blue the old theme had been in service on this site for getting close to four years now and it was time for a change.
I wanted to try my hand at a bit of design, I knew it was not going to be any hugely fantastic but I’m happy with the result.
Finally I wanted to integrate some of the various social networking sites that I belong to into the site, I found that fluid blue didn’t really lend itself to how I wanted it all displayed.

As I noted above I wanted to integrate some of my social site activity into the site to that end I have also integrated my twitter stream into the left sidebar. As with any new piece of code I will not be surprised if there are bugs, I have tested it in IE 8, Firefox and Chrome and it appears to work fine but these are not the only browsers in the world. If you do happen to find anything wrong with the site don’t hesitate to report a bug over at the mlowen.com bug tracker.

Tags: Overhauls, Programming, project, The site, theme, twitter, upgrade, wordpress
Category: Programming, Projects, The site | 1 Comment

December 10, 2008, 4:22 pm

gIDE Update

The new Create project dialog I mentioned earlier this week has hit trunk as of about 5 minutes ago and everything seems to be working fine as always the svn repository is http://mlowen.com/svn/gIDE/trunk.

Before I get back to adding new features to gIDE there are a couple of more overhauls of the current system that I want to do, the parts I want to look at are:

Configuration system.
Add file dialog.
Remove file dialog.

The configuration system doesn’t need much more than some tweaking and at the most is a nights work. I’m also thinking about doing away entirely with the remove file dialog as it just seems clunky where a right click menu would do the trick. The add file dialog is the only one that I’m not overly sure how to approach as of yet, originally it was a quick hack to get the functionality in there (much like the create project dialog) with the intent of replacing it later. Well the time has come to do away with the quick hack but I’m just not sure what the new dialog should look like, all I know is I want something different from what I currently have which can be seen in the screenshots below.