Yes, yes it’s been a while…
Hello. It’s been close to half a year since I posted anything of significance. The only excuse I really have is lack of interest on my part and not really knowing what to write about. A lot of things have happened in my life the past few months so I’ve been quite remiss in dedicating time to this blog other than attending to the comments of a few popular articles I will discuss below.
Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the dire need for this site to have an updated theme, more compatible with WP 2.7 features. The theme currently in use is a custom job I hacked together in less than a week last summer. It’s pretty stripped down but served it’s purpose for a short time… I originally intended this site to be just an portfolio type site featuring my CV and some work examples. I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about WP Theme Frameworks and am quite intrigued with the possibility of writing a child theme for either Thematic or Theme Hybrid. Basically in the course of writing the current theme for this site I pretty much realized I painted myself into a corner in regards to the markup and use of WP Template Tags. In essence I learned how not to code a WP theme. Like most things in the web development world, I’ve learned things by trial and error. So I think now is the time to put the skills I’ve subsequently learned doing other WP-powered client sites and create a much more functional theme for this site.
Two articles I wrote last summer continue to get tons of traffic, which is very cool. They are “MySQL Administrator on Mac OSX Leopard: A Few Tips and Tricks” and “Setting up PHP, MySQL, and Apache in Mac OSX Leopard.” Both of those articles still get hundreds of pageviews every day. I had intentions of doing more posts along these lines to try to fill a niche that I saw was lacking. Particularly… clear, unambiguous tutorials on how to set up a Mac as a local development suite. I soon realized putting tutorials of that nature together were extremely time consuming. Plus on top of that I started to get really busy with client work the last 4 months or so of 2008. I work a day job too so keeping up with tutorials had to be put on the back burner.
As we are all aware, the current economic conditions have started to impact the frequency of my freelance activities. Put another way, freelancing has been pretty slow so far in 2009. So I’m hoping to provide some more tutorials in the near future. Even though they are time-consuming, I do enjoy writing them. It’s great to give back as I wouldn’t be where I am today if there weren’t hundreds of thousands of excellent web development oriented blogs out there providing top notch information for free! Plus I always learn something new when creating tutorial articles. I’m even considering some screencasts. I know how much I enjoy screencasts from Nettuts, ThemeForest, and CSS Tricks so this may be a good thing for folks coming to my site as well.
If anyone out there has ideas for articles and/or screencasts please leave a comment below or drop me a line.
That’s it for now. I promise things will get a bit more exciting around Superfancy HQ soon!
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