Amen.
I’ve had the pleasure of being informed that my pages do not validate a number of times. I suppose it’s because way back then I used to write about web design and stuff, and my old articles are still floating out there on the interwebs. Guess one reason why I’ve basically stopped writing about such things.
(I know exactly where and why my pages don’t validate. Go away.)
A part of my post here about Drupal is quoted on a BlogHer post about the lack of women at the latest DrupalCon in Boston. It’s all because I left a comment on Shelley Powers’ site. Rats, I need to hide more.
I’m just kidding, sort of. But that whole discussion of why there aren’t enough women at tech conferences….which has been going on for years now…hits me in a blind spot.
I don’t get the fuss. I don’t really see why gender has to do with of all things, a blog/CMS platform choice, even though I know that pushing the female agenda, as it were, is part of what BlogHer is about.
After having wrestled with MovableType (and Typepad), skirted around WordPress, and dipped my toe in, and out of, ExpressionEngine, I am now quite happily esconced in the land of Drupal for most of my sites, including this one. The busiest one of those administered and published by me is Just Hungry. I spent the weekend tweaking it under the hood, as well as giving it a visual facelift.
Everyone who has been using a Mac for some time is in love with Panic, a small company that has been making awesome Mac software for a long time. I’m no different. I love Panic, and have been using their things for ages. I used Audion before the behemouth called iTunes crushed their cuteness into extinction. I use Transmit as my preferred FTP program. If I still used newsgroups (which I stopped doing a couple of years ago), I’d be using Unison.
Their latest offering is Coda, an all-in-one web development product. On the surface, it’s awesome. Under the surface…I’m not quite sure yet.
Mint, the highly addictive web site statistics program from Shaun Inman, has been upgraded to version 2.0, and it’s prettier than ever. It now has bar graphs that show historical stats and a host of nice original Peppers (the Mint term for plugins). Here are the new features. But perhaps more importantly for the design-conscious, the interface has been injected with doses of black in addition to the shades of pale green, making it much bolder yet sleeker. It’s a pure pleasure to behold. Who thought that a stats program could be eye candy?
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