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Going HTML 5

Posted by Glenn AKA: Wired Pig February 18 2010, 10:31pm#
Tags: Asides Blog Coding HTML HTML5

I am in the planning stages for converting my current WordPress theme from HTML 4 to HTML 5. Being early in the planning phase I am looking up HTML 5 resources and gathering links that may be useful. Below you will find a list of resources that I have gathered that you may want to take a look at should you decide to go the same route.

SmashingMagazine’s HTML5 Cheat Sheet SmashingMagazine’s Coding a HTML 5 Layout from Scratch Bruce Lawson’s HTML 5 Category <HTML>5 Doctor’s site Webmaster Sucks HTML 5 Category Web Reference’s HTML 5 AppleTree’s HTML 5 Cheat Sheet Digital Inspiration’s HTML 5 Supported Browsers Web Monkey’s Building Web Pages with HTML 5 Speckyboy’s Collections of HTML 5 Resources eHow HTML 5 Tutorial Dive Into HTML 5 (ebook) HTML 5 Tutorial .net HTML 5 Template .com

This is not the be all, end all list. This is a list I gathered/created in a few minutes and decided to share(1) it with you. The next step is gathering CSS 3.0 information Footnotes are for reference only and may have little, if anything to do with the text from the post. Okay, I’m posting it so I don’t have to search again and I’ll already have it in one location. Exciting, huh?

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Taking Shape

Posted by Glenn AKA: Wired Pig August 25 2009, 1:47pm#
Tags: Blog Featured Hacking htaccess Redirect Status Theme

A week ago I decided to speed up the blog by making a new one… if only I had known exactly what work it would entail I may have decided to stick with a very slow blog instead. Yet, no, I decided to make a go of it. I have had to hack my .htaccess file to get redirects from older pages to go to the Archive Blog as well as making sure that all of the items, past, present and future are available via the RSS links on this blog. And here we are. With the exception of searching across multiple blogs, the site is where it should have been a week ago. In order to get the recirects working, I editied the .htaccess file and added the following lines - <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(2002|2003|2004|2005|2006|2007|2008|2009)/ [nc] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/2009/08/(19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26|27|28|29|30|31)/ [nc] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/2009/(09|10|11|12)/ [nc] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ archive.wiredpig.us/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule> What this does is look at the incoming requested URL and, if its from before 08/19/2009 it redirects the request the same path in the new blog1 . Then I had an issue of search engine users being dropped off at /TAG pages that do not exist. Now I needed to hack the themes 404 page to give these people an option of clicking a couple of links to get them to their final destination.

To accomplish this I added code to the 404 template that checked if the person came from the blog (this would be unlikely, but possible). It then looked at the Search String that came with the user (assuming that they came from a search engine) and it extracted the string. Next it pulled the requested URL and added it to the end of the Archive Blog’s URL allowing them to click there or, alternatively, I added the search string to the Archive Blog’s search URL allowing the user to search the Archive Blog. The most likely solution, for the user, is to click the first link and go to archive.wiredpig.us/(URL they landed on originally) but I wanted to give them a few options. Once that was done I headed over to Yahoo Pipes and created three new pipes. These ended up combining the various feeds I had originally2  with the feeds from here. This allows the user seamless access to all the content regardless of where it is3 And now you have this… but hey… it runs faster! The only thing  left ‘to do’ cross site search… maybe next week. Thats on great benefit of using date based path names in WordPress. Now at Archive Somewhere between the two blog spaces.

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Oops….

Posted by Glenn AKA: Wired Pig August 19 2009, 8:57pm#
Tags: Blog Headline Error Oops Trouble

Due to a database error that I was unable to remedy, I have moved all of the prior content to here. All previous links will still work in pointing you to the correct article. You should be seamlessly routed to the Archive blog without any effort. Should I eventually be able to solve the issue1 I’ll happily move the blog back and redirect Archive access’ back to the Main Blog. But, until that happy day, this is what we have. The blog loads very, very slowly at times.

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Server Move

Posted by Glenn AKA: Wired Pig February 20 2009, 3:56pm#
Tags: Asides Blog GoDaddy Server

I have no idea what else GoDaddy had running on the server I was sharing, but I can tell you, it was slowing my site way down. Yesterday I undertook moving my account from one server to another. It all went very smoothly and the blog is back up (minus a few posts).

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Video Entry for 082607 (vid-0022.3gp) for August 27, 2007, 06:51 PM

Posted by Glenn AKA: Wired Pig August 27 2007, 6:51pm#
Tags: wiredpig Blog Mobile Video cellphone

Daily Video Entry

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Dancing Dew (vid-0021.3gp) for August 21, 2007, 05:16 PM

Posted by Glenn AKA: Wired Pig August 21 2007, 5:16pm#
Tags: wiredpig Blog Mobile Video cellphone

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