dan coulter.com » Site News http://dancoulter.com She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:01:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New (kinda) mini posts http://dancoulter.com/2008/02/10/new-kinda-mini-posts/ http://dancoulter.com/2008/02/10/new-kinda-mini-posts/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:07:48 +0000 Dan http://dancoulter.com/2008/02/10/new-kinda-mini-posts/ I’ve been drooling over the functionality provided by tumblelogs.  The idea of posting short little blurbs, quick videos, images, quotes… it’s like Twitter for people with slightly longer attention spans.  I thought about setting one up as several geeks of some standing in the web industry have done.  Then I realized, I already have a blog, why should I create another page that people have to track if they want to see my thoughts.  This is in keeping with the reason that I pull my tweets into this blog.

That’s the other thing.  I already have a place that I post most of my quick little thoughts and they’re already coming into my blog.  After a little digging, I found a very useful plugin called QuickPost that can bring one of the most useful parts of Tumblr’s functionality in to my WordPress blog.  For short text blurbs, you may notice that I stole the design idea from Matt.  I’m saving tons of vertical scroll space by compacting the bits of text into one or two line segments.

If you have any comments about this new design feature, let me know.  I haven’t decided whether I want video and photo “quick posts” to share the same design as the text posts.  That left bar looks kinda weird on videos and photos.

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]]> http://dancoulter.com/2007/09/26/upgraded/feed/ 0 Updating WordPress with Subversion http://dancoulter.com/2007/06/21/updating-wordpress-with-subversion/ http://dancoulter.com/2007/06/21/updating-wordpress-with-subversion/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:54:18 +0000 Dan http://dancoulter.com/2007/06/21/updating-wordpress-with-subversion/ For various reasons, I’ve decided to start updating my WordPress install with Subversion. The process is very simple and safe, if you follow some simple steps from your SSH or Telnet session. Note: you have to have Subversion installed on the server you’re trying to do this on. Try doing the first “svn…” command below on a temp directory to find out if you have it. (Many hosts have it pre-installed, including mine, Dreamhost.)

For these examples, we’ll assume that I’m in a folder that contains the folder that this domain’s files are in. First, we’ll want to make a backup of my files and then delete everything inside the subfolder for the domain. You can skip this if you’re doing a fresh install.

tar czvf dancoulter.com.tar.gz dancoulter.com
rm -rf dancoulter.com/*

Next, check out the Subversion “tag” that corresponds to the version of WordPress you were using. I was using 2.2, so it looks like this:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.2/ dancoulter.com/

Now, if you have made a backup of your files (if you’ve made any changes to your theme, or uploaded any files or plugins, you definitely need to do this), simply unzip that backup file you made before.

tar xzf dancoulter.com.tar.gz

If you look at your WordPress site now, you’ll see that it should be working normally.

Now to upgrade (this is the only step you’ll need to do to upgrade files from now on), just point your Subversion “working copy” to the new “tag”. I was upgrading from 2.2 to 2.2.1, so I just ran this command from the ssh prompt.

svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.2.1/ dancoulter.com/

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]]> http://dancoulter.com/2007/03/30/twitterified/feed/ 0 What the heck is going on? http://dancoulter.com/2007/03/05/what-the-heck-is-going-on/ http://dancoulter.com/2007/03/05/what-the-heck-is-going-on/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:37:07 +0000 Dan http://new.dancoulter.com/?p=3 Recently there have been some problems with my blog not loading correctly. In addition to fixing that I’ve decided to do a whole mess of cleanup on my site. There were tons of folders and files that I was no longer using, but still existed in the web root.

Now I’ve got an install of WordPress that still has the new website smell. I’ve also created this spiffy new theme. If you see any problems with the new site, let me know!

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