I’m migrating nathanpitman.com from my old Textdrive VC account over to my dedicated Memset server, so expect some temporary weirdness.
Update: From where I am the update seems to be complete. If somethings not working for you drop me an email at hello [at] nathanpitman dot com.
Don’t get me wrong, *I love you Textdrive*, after all I got me a VCII account when they were about, hosting for life for $200, what a steal.
But. Recently service seems to be slow and sporadic, and when your arsing about with your templates and CSS ‘live’ (read my previous post) then regular ‘Timeouts’ really start to grind.
Just a bit of a heads up guys. Hopefully you can sort it out sometime soon. Either that or throw me a free Mixed Grill.
Mmm Peppers…
Well, I started faffing about with what was intended to be a small ‘re-align’ or whatever, now it’s turning into a ghastly mess with content flailing wildly all over the place and background images wandering off without any intention of returning to a sensible or desired location.
It’s all gone Pete Tong. I hate the set up of page templates which are stored in a CMS database field, and the same goes for the CSS, that sucks too. It just teases me into toying and tweaking live, on the trot, until disaster strikes, then I realise it’s a year or so since I did a backup of my CSS, and the page templates well forget it, those changes are lost for good. No handy little tab to roll back to the previous version, no sir!
It’s like 1 step forward, 2 steps back.., great I can manage my content from anywhere in the world, my pages are made up of neat little re-usable snippets of code and my CSS is served by a clever little call to a PHP page, but the interface for editing it all, it stinks… I can’t have code colouring like I can in a text editor, and heaven forbid if I should want to ‘tab’ a line of code in a few spaces.
Bah, I’ve had it, it’s ghastly, it’s horrible, is there not a CMS out there which is designed around storing my templates, snippets and CSS in the normal manner, in a simple physical folder.
Rant off.
I know, you have to ask why… but now you can subscribe to the podcast of my journal (spoken with Talkr) using iTunes.
All a bit convoluted, but it kept me amused for a couple of minutes.
I stumbled across this great little free online service for converting your RSS feeds into MP3 files for podcasting goodness. Talkr might not have a trendy logo or backing from Yahoo! but they got themselves an r on the end of the name and a pretty neat little service to boot.
All you have to do is set up a free account then register as a ‘partner’ and add your RSS feed URL. They trot off and grab the feed and you can slap a nifty little link into your page template which links to your ‘Talkr-ed’ mp3.
The tricky part wasn’t getting it to work so much as temporarily defaulting Textpatterns RSS feed to 999 articles so that Talkr could provide audio for even my oldest posts (Sorry if you did an update with your RSS readers during the process!).
So, let me know what you think, click on the Listen to this post link below any artcile title to give it a whirl.
