I've decided to repurpose this blog to have more consistent types of posts. Right now I seem to have a weird mix of personal stuff, rants, stuff I found on the internets, and web design/development.
So I got a couple of writers who want to come on board, and we've decided to go a bit more niche with it. Expect to find more useful and consistent information/posts.
NOTE: We may be deleting some of the older posts on here, changing the layout, adding some pages etc.
I'm realizing it more and more each day.
Feb 4, 2011
Feb 2, 2011
What's With Blog Titles These Days?
Lately I've seen a lot of blogs with titles like:
What's with that? It's like they're setting the reader up to be okay with mediocre posts, because well, it's in the title. That's ridiculous. It's not okay.
Now I'm not saying my posts are amazing, but let's be honest. They are. :D
Stop naming your blogs like your opinions don't matter, because if you think they don't, they won't. I always thought blogging was a great way to share unique thoughts and ideas, but the trend of title's like that and the advent of reblogging leads to exactly what the names say they are: meaningless scribbles and incoherent rambling. People should not be satisfied with mediocrity. It just doesn't make sense.
You don't have to be a genius to make a blog. And you don't need to be a genius to have excellent posts - you just have to stop being afraid that people won't like you.
- The Legendary Scribbles of ___________
- The Mediocre Ramblings of ___________
- The Incoherent Diary of ___________
What's with that? It's like they're setting the reader up to be okay with mediocre posts, because well, it's in the title. That's ridiculous. It's not okay.
Now I'm not saying my posts are amazing, but let's be honest. They are. :D
Stop naming your blogs like your opinions don't matter, because if you think they don't, they won't. I always thought blogging was a great way to share unique thoughts and ideas, but the trend of title's like that and the advent of reblogging leads to exactly what the names say they are: meaningless scribbles and incoherent rambling. People should not be satisfied with mediocrity. It just doesn't make sense.
You don't have to be a genius to make a blog. And you don't need to be a genius to have excellent posts - you just have to stop being afraid that people won't like you.
Weekly Awesome #2
Thank you StumbleUpon for this weeks awesome. Who needs a weather app for your phone when you have this awesome, and always accurate, weather stone?
Feb 1, 2011
HTML5 Quicktip - Cut Out a Few Bytes
Everyone's been talking about all the exciting new features of HTML5, but the little changes sometimes get lost in the fray. You can start using these features now, they are currently supported in all browsers:
No more long doctypes! Save at least 100 bytes per request.
No more long meta tag, content-type and all that. Save a few bytes per request.
And no need for 'type' tags in script, link, and style tags.
All this can add up to saving a little bit of server resources. And as any web developer knows, a little goes a long way.
Idea for this post taken from a thread I was involved in at indie-resource.com
No more long doctypes! Save at least 100 bytes per request.
<!DOCTYPE html>
No more long meta tag, content-type and all that. Save a few bytes per request.
<meta charset="utf-8" />
And no need for 'type' tags in script, link, and style tags.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="awesome.css" /> <style></style> <script></script>
All this can add up to saving a little bit of server resources. And as any web developer knows, a little goes a long way.
Idea for this post taken from a thread I was involved in at indie-resource.com
PHP 5.3 Quicktip - __autoload
With PHP 5, true autoloading is possible. No more calling 'include' for every script you have. All you need to do is define an autoload function like so:
Now when you call classes, if they weren't included, PHP will look for them and call that function to load them.
function __autoload($class_name)
{
include $class_name.'.php';
}
Note - This is the simplest example. You can go as far as to create classes for autoloading that will differ depending on the needed directory structure.Now when you call classes, if they weren't included, PHP will look for them and call that function to load them.
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