September 11, 2006 – 22:28
Excerpt from a Project/Programmers Guide I wrote earlier when the year was just days old:
The goal of the project is to succeed. To succeed we can not be afraid of failure. We need to embrace failure. If we are going to fail — fail early.
If we fail early then we have time to change the decision and try something else. And not building a big plan up front that weeks will be wasted on until it ultimately fail.
To achieve early failure we need short aggressive cycles between confirmed success or failure. Make sure only a week, day or hour(s) are spent at most on a failed attempt.
Failure have a negative connotation to people. But failure is good — we learn about what’s not going to work in a controlled environment.
Did you know that Antarctica has its own top-level domain, .aq ?
I have not yet been looking for a navigation link plugin for WordPress. But I imagine I can do one just as quickly myself rather than sift through a zillion plugins that all do the same thing in addition to suffering from bad cases of optionitis.
Right now in addition to the usual rel-stylesheet (for CSS) rel-alternate (for RSS feeds) and rel-pingback (for pingbacks) there are also a rel-start resource link in the header pointing to the home page of the blog.
Here are some additional relational resource links and types to consider.
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For a day or two I have been whining about Sandbox on Andy and Scott’s blogs and in my gettext post. Why? Because I recently “jumped on the Sandbox bandwagon”. Making me boast to friends that I’d switched to a theme that made the site look exactly like as before! While they were staring at me in a way I only could interpret as awe.
The theme really reinvigorated my interest in designing for WordPress since it bring a lot of power to the CSS while giving you harsh constrains on the markup (constrains are good, too many choices result in angst, limitations release creativity). And Sandbox do have the promise of becoming the CSS Zen Garden of WordPress.
So I have decided to collect all my Sandbox “issues” and track theme here in this post.
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As you might see (if you’re reading this 24th of July) I have marked this day with its own custom header image just like I’ve already done 4th and 14th of July. But this time it isn’t a national holiday that is observed — but in my opinion one of the most important dates in the human exploration of space. An event that is often overshadowed by everything that led up to it.
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