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A Few Notes on the Sidebar

Posted on September 7, 2008 by romkey

The second problem was that they all loaded their info in real time, which meant it could take minutes to load a dot-dot-romkey page. … So I started using the Feedcache plugin, which uses a cron job to read a list of feeds and store the results in a database, which Wordpress can simply read from when it generates the page. … I’d also like to do more formatting that’s appropriate to the site: on Twitter, there’s no need to have my name first on every line. … For now, though, I have more important things to do than fuss with the sidebar, so this is the way it will remain for the time being. Continue reading →

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Welcome to dot-dot-romkey

Posted on September 2, 2008 by romkey

And the environment that I work in has changed and become much more complex… where two decades ago a piece of software most likely ran from the command-line, now it may need to live in a networked environment and work with a web server and talk to other pieces of software in order to do anything remotely interesting. … I’ve run three blogs for a while – The Apocalypse Blog , because I find the subject the ‘apocalypse’ rather fascinating; Shiny Things , which I started because friends would ask me for computer and gadget recommendations; and Blue Forest Blog , which I intended as a development blog for my software company, Blue Forest Research. … I’ll be cross-posting articles on dot-dot-romkey to my LiveJournal in order to make it easier for friends to follow it if they want. … I am bowing to practicality and will still have a sidebar which will only provide some assistance with navigating this blog, and pointers to my activity on a few other sites that are a part of my regular online life and may be of some interest or use to you, my reader. Continue reading →

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