So I’ve spent the last 48 hours configuring the blog and importing some content and I’ve rediscovered that I absolutely LOVE tinkering with shit I do not know or understand. You see, when you are silly like me and run with your own solution instead of just paying a service in the cloud or a designer, stuff breaks and doesn’t work right and you gnash your teeth.
I don’t build PC’s anymore. I kind of miss it, because every PC I ever built from scratch invariably took a day to get to just boot up as I had to mess with BIOS settings and clock speeds and RAM configuration.
Over the past 2 days I’ve configured this new software to withstand the level of hits that the hardware might experience, so I have tweaked and configured for that special case. And in the process I broke and fixed a dozen things. I also implemented a third party comment system, which also broke things I had to fix by hand. Did I mention my platform is mostly meant to be run on Linux so most of the troubleshooting steps involve “grep the tarball” and “sudo the bin directory”?
And yet it’s been a blast. Twitter helped me understand what setting in my Cascading Style Sheet was making the twitter badge on my site display a tiny font. I got off the phone tonight with my friend Joel from Hijinks Ensue and was chomping at the bit to schedule backing up my new MySQL database, then schedule optimizing it!
I am a geek. It’s at times like these that I am at my most comforted. The twiddling. The tweaking. Running a test that shows some tiny change you made made a huge difference in [INSERT WHATEVER GEEK THING YOU NEEDED]. To my followers on twitter who are less than grease monkey when it comes to debugging PHP, I’m sorry.
To the rest however, REVEL IN OUR TIME.
I know exactly what you mean. One of the best feelings ever is working hours on an issue and finally seeing it work correctly.
I’m sure you’ll get a ton of questions like this, but why did you not choose a blogging engine that ran on Microsoft technologies? Of course, WordPress is a great platform with lots of years of development and growth, but as you said it prefers a different environment.
StepTo, as a PHP Evangelist who works very closely with Microsoft in LatAm, feel free to hit me up with any WP/PHP questions, if i don’t have an answer i can surely point you to someone who has. I was mostly late to your twitter questions last night, sorry.
Thanks also to Microsoft for the great with the PHP Community and Technology.
Lookin’ good Stepto!
Good seeing you active here Larry!
How could I not come over here and post? It’s my second home now.
That’s Great! Majornelson.com is My Home :)
Stepto can you let me know how i can get my gamertag like yours for my site? Email me. tjmarsh@live.com
Thanks.
Sure just do an iFrame to http://gamercard.xbox.com/en-US/stepto.card Be sure where it says stepto.card you put in your gamertag.
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Thanks Stepto! It worked! had a problem with Sizing it on wordpress but i got it. Site is looking good man! Great Job!