http://www.toppa.com Project Advisor - Business Analyst - Technology Advisor - Methodologist - Solutions Advisor Fri, 09 May 2008 13:47:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you click around into different parts of my site, you'll notice that only certain categories of posts appear on the home page, and there are two variations to my sidebar. What I've done is make a single blog look like two different blogs: one for my professional work, and ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/customizing-wordpress-limiting-categories-on-your-home-page-and-sidebar Shashin 2.1 is now available. It does not include any new dazzling features, but it has a new, easier to use option for displaying all your album thumbnails, and then have them link to a page on your site that displays all the photos in each album. The Shashin page ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/shashin-21-easier-steps-for-displaying-all-album-photos [simage=484,640,y,none,both] The past few weeks have been the height of silly season in the Democratic race, culminating with the amazingly uninformative debate last week. I think I knew less after watching it than before it started. I went to the Obama rally last Friday, and I think it's safe to say it ... http://www.toppa.com/nothing-but-words/politics/the-obama-rally-on-independence-mall I've redesigned toppa.com to support my web consulting work. How do you like the logo? Other than the new look, the big change is that I've split my blog in two. Posts that show up on the home page concern web technology and my projects. Everything else is still on the ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/welcome-to-the-new-toppacom "How can someone find me if no one knows I'm lost?" - You Dreamer, Big Country If Stuart Adamson - the former frontman of my favorite band Big Country - were still alive, today would be his 50th birthday. But he died alone in a hotel room 7 years ago, in ... http://www.toppa.com/nothing-but-words/music/stuart-adamsons-50th-birthday-today [simage=483,400,n,left] My former officemates at the U Penn School of Medicine Information Services Department have put together a Web Symposium, scheduled for July 15-16. They have an impressive list of speakers lined up. I recognized many of the names of the list, as it includes some of the most well known people ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/web-design-and-programming/u-penn-higher-education-web-symposium This is a very minor release in terms of code changes. It's not critical if you have a previous version of Shashin installed, but it is critical if you've upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 and you're installing Shashin for the first time. It has to do with WordPress 2.5's new handling ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/and-and-shashin-204 In version 2.0.2 I updated Shashin to accommodate changes in the Picasa RSS feed. The feed changes had caused images to stop displaying after you synced your albums in Shashin. I fixed that, but what I didn't notice was that they also changed how videos are represented in the feed, ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/and-now-shashin-203 Murphy's Law is being strictly enforced today: within 24 hours of my 2.0 release, Google coincidentally changed the Picasa RSS feed. The URL for the photos isn't where it used to be in the feeder, with the result that, if you sync your albums in Shashin, your photos won't show ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/shashin-202-critical-upgrade Shashin 2.0 is now available. I jumped the version number to 2.0 because this release includes a couple major new features. One is that Shashin is now bundled with Highslide. It was a fun challenge getting WordPress to play nicely with Highslide for displaying any combination of photos in a ... http://www.toppa.com/web-architect/wordpress-and-blogging/shashin-20-highslide-and-album-displays