Well, it took me 45 minutes of digging around to get this done… and you probably haven’t even noticed the difference yet, but I actually made some changes to the site!
If you look off to the right, you should see a little site meter bar (unless you are reading this via RSS…. and then well pff)
I used to run site meter on the blog, but I had hacked it into the side bar code. During a WordPress upgrade somewhere along the way, my *ahem* edits got lost. I really wanted to do something closer to respectable this time around.
I undertook to write a side-bar widget, and ended up gutting a hello world tutorial as my foundation: Tutorial: WordPress 2.8 Widget API. My changes only caused the entire blog to display as an error message for about two minutes. I suppose I shouldn’t test on the live blog, but what fun would that be?
It’s kind of sad that my finished product does considerably less than the “hello world” example 🙂
If I can stay motivated maybe I will clean it up a little and set it up such that you could drop in another site meter key, but I haven’t had much luck sticking with hobby programming projects as of late.
Speaking of hobby programming, I found A slick little setup for doing local source control called Mercurial. I guess I could setup a full blown revision control system, considering I already run a server, but this is a nice local method for tracking changes to source code. It does a whole lot more than that, but that is beyond the scope of this blog.
One final note on website changes, I opened the blog up so Google / Bing / Yahoo / whatever else can see it. It isn’t like the blog was hidden before it just wasn’t indexed, and it seems silly to hide it from search engines. (especially when I want to be able to search the page for things using something more powerful than the built-in search).
-Jordan
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