I remember that safety tip from school, you know if you ever catch fire so you don’t get burned. Why can’t that apply to everyday things, like you get cutoff in traffic or they forget your fries with your order. All you would have to do is stop, drop and roll. Well I wasn’t so lucky and now I think I’ve been burned. I enjoy my work even if right now it is slower than I would like, I still love it. I know soon things will pick up. I’ve learned recently that I can’t always choose the clients I work with but I can choose the kind of work I want to do. I need to change the way I approach things though. The nice guy factor can get you burned and no matter how well you roll, you can still get burned!
That is all I have to say about that!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlw-4h7PLE[/youtube]
Are they honestly bringing Megatron back to life? Or now that I look at it again, it looks like Starscream down at the bottom of the ocean grabbing something from Megatrons lifeless remains. Hmmm, now I wonder what happens!!
It’s rather common practice to use more than one stylesheet within any type of web design. So with a recent project I managed to create 2 stylesheets that both had different layout properties. One CSS layout was for the index / front page and a second CSS stylesheet was used for pages within WordPress. So to keep in line with web standards, separating design from content, I found a very simple way to use a php if … else statement along with the WordPress conditional tag to achieve this task.
Here’s the code I used:
<?php if ( is_page() ) { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/page.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<?php } else { ?>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<?php } ?>
So a simple explanation of this is to start with the “if” statment. Our “if” statement starts by asking is this a WordPress page (using the conditional tag is_page) and if it is to load the page.css stylesheet. But if it is not a page (else statement) then load the default style.css.
You may also have noticed that within this code I used the bloginfo() template tag. This can be used within a template file to gather information about your blog. I used the bloginfo() tag within my header.php file. Now you can also use the get_bloginfo() template tag to pull your blog information into a page outside of a template file.
So now go and have fun templating your WordPress blog!
Or maybe not so silent, rather it could just be me not realizing how HUGE this company really is. I was setting up a Feedburner (which if you don’t know is a great RSS extender service) account the other day and I happened to notice that they had been acquired by Google. Where have I been? It may have happened sometime ago, but that was the first I had seen of it. So I then began to think just how many services / companies Google currently has under it’s umbrella.
As far as products, simply check out their website and you’ll soon discover that you can nearly do everything straight from Google.com! For example, iGoogle.com, what better home page can you think of? It’s got everything and it’s completely customizable. It’s the best in my opinion.
Here is the Wikipedia list of acquisitions from Google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_made_by_Google
Google Summer of Code 2009
I so wish I could do this (but I’m not a student). The Summer of Code is going down again real soon. I probably wouldn’t even have the time to mess with anything. I really want to try and get some nice themes out this summer and work on a couple of plugins that I have been kicking around.
But if you’re a student and want to spend your Summer coding – check this out!
Oh Google!
How I heart thee!
So after months and months of talking about doing it, we finally did it. I, along with 3 other buddies, made our first Halo 3 machinima (applause). Yeah, I know it may be so “childish” but man it’s fun and we (for the most part) had a lot of fun making it. I think in this pilot episode we really learned what it takes to create a working machinima and now we respect those a little bit more who work so hard to deliver quality machinimas time after time (Red vs Blue, Arby ‘n’ the Chief). So here it is, our first “production”.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D532bRgjzds[/youtube]
