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How to embed a flash file in a webpage.

This is actually two different commands. One is for Mozilla browsers and the other is for everyone else. I forget why, something about the object property not being recognized by Mozilla. Maybe it's the other way around. If you're curious, it's out there.

The newby web programmer. Episode 2.

So, you've gone and installed MAMP and WordPress on your computer, or if you wanna sound really hip you call it your "local machine". You've gone and started building out a wordpress site for your school because your current website is an outdated embarrassment.

The newby web programmer. Episode 1.

This post is for my buddy Jimmy. He's a teacher in CT and has set up a Wordpress.com site for his classroom. Of course the parents love it, and he's the young techno-hip teacher in the school so his principal has allowed him to go and set up a new site for his school, whose hideous and outdated site was left for dead by the side of the road several years ago, apparently. He just sent me an email asking about downloading Wordpress. I responded by asking why because downloading and using Wordpress isn't the piece of cake that you might think it is if you've never dealt with web servers and databases before. So I decided to make this public so that he and I and we may refer to it from now on. Besides, this hasn't been blogged about nearly enough...

On Drupal.

So far it's been a little boring. I've added a few modules, mostly to achieve some comment functionality that Wordpress comes with almost out of the box, and somehow I find my database up to 90+ tables. And the comments don't even really work that well.

So, in researching how to move from Drupal to Wordpress (since I've of course been doing mountains of Wordpress hacking for the last weeks since moving to Drupal), I've discovered that it's basically not easily doable, due to the above mentioned database bloat and variety of setups. Thus...

Version 4.0 shall be a Rails app. I've said this before, but I'm going to have to manually import all of my old posts and comments shit like that in via SQL most likely. To the layman this means a lot of interesting and educational work. I'll bet I can copy what I need for a functional blog in <10 tables. Probably more like <6.

You'll know. thanks for stopping by. I'll have something more interesting to write about soon.

This is truly fascinating...

A glimpse into design and corporate culture, and where the two often clash.

Dear American Airlines | Dustin Curtis

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