Been offline most of the holidays, but I thought I’d post some pictures we took of Bend’s big snowfall. Here’s a good idea of how deep the snow got (Bend ended up with 11 or 12 inches overall). Click for full size 768×1024, 480×640 1024×768, 640×480 1024×768, 640×480
Month: December 2003
The Night Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; And… Continue reading The Night Before Christmas
Flu Season
Been slow to post anything the last couple of days, mostly because we have the flu in the house, and we’ve been nursing sick kids. It’s mostly run its course, but turned into an ear infection in our oldest, and we got antibiotics for that today. And no, we didn’t get flu shots. I’ve never… Continue reading Flu Season
Content Management: Spokane Database Schema
As promised, here’s my proposed database schema (using MySQL) for my Spokane Personal Publishing System. It’s long and technical, read on at your own risk.
TrackBack?
Jeremy Zawodny had a post imagining a corporate worst-case scenario involving that ubiquitous Movable Type-developed technology, TrackBack. I’d been musing over TrackBack for awhile, and two things yesterday got me looking deeper into it: Zawodny’s blog entry, and the link to my site from Ensight that I detailed in my previous entry. I’ll admit, before… Continue reading TrackBack?
A Little Ensight
Jeremy Wright over on Ensight has wrote up some good commentary to my Thoughts on Content Management post from a few days back. He’s hit on the exact points that prompted me to explore this topic: “most CMS’s are piss poorly designed” (which is exactly right; most are piss-poorly designed, I’m just as guilty of… Continue reading A Little Ensight
Support
Jake over on UtterlyBoring is having some serious back problems and could definitely use some support. So, if you can, donate to Jake, or maybe buy something from his Orty.com store. If things are tight, hey, I understand, just send him some email or link to his site. Every little bit helps!
O Tannenbaum
Busy busy weekend. Most of it was holiday-oriented, though, and you can see the fruits of a good part of that in our nice six foot Douglas fir that’s laden with ornaments there on the right. Click for the larger image in all its glory. And of course, I couldn’t resist including a picture of… Continue reading O Tannenbaum
Search Snafu
This article on Gadgetopia links to my content management post I made yesterday (er, today?) and brings up a drawback to my system that I forgot to include: searching. Within the relational database world, you can do precise, structured queries against specific fields in your tables. In a properly normalized database, this is all-powerful. However,… Continue reading Search Snafu
Thoughts on Content Management
I’ve been thinking a long time about content management systems (which isn’t surprising considering developing various types of website CMSes is what I do for a living), how they pertain to weblogs and similar types of content, how to implement them in PHP and MySQL, and what type of system I would really like to… Continue reading Thoughts on Content Management