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Alex Chousmith

Development

WordPress, Godaddy, and Permalinks

Apparently this has always been a hot topic. And after much searching, and by much searching, I mean, after finding a link from the first article I clicked on, this fellow Zac claims that we all just need to wait an hour for the server to refresh with the new .htaccess file. It's a pretty big leap of faith, but I think I can handle it. I'll keep you posted!
January 7, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

There are many others like it, but this is mine.

Music to Design, Develop, and Market by? Maybe. All I know is that the goal was to create a killer mix, Alex's Best of 2k8, comprised entirely of songs that came out this year. Everybody's doing it. NME, Rolling Stone Singles and Albums (i especially like that that last url is "...albums_of_the_yea"), Spin Magazine... even Dave Brown at Holiday Matinee made a mixtape for Sanctuary143. Well, this one is mine. (more…)
December 15, 2008
Development

That’s how you de[bug]!

Yes, I mostly wanted to blog this because of the praise it brought, but if patting your own back after someone else pats it, on a Thursday afternoon, is wrong, then I ... I just don't know. Anyways, the above image shouldn't have white space inside the non-white, in theory, but it does. And you should have seen it before we got the images working! (more…)
December 11, 2008
Development

My Favorite Things : 2.7 is the new 2.6.5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6xkVRWzCY Wordpress 2.7 has been released today, nicknamed "Coltrane". And in case that means nothing to you, where should I begin? Wordpress is a most awesome open source blogging system that has been expanded to really become a fully-functional Content Management System. With plugins to allow everything from image galleries (check out Wordpress' creator Matt Mullenweg's nice setup) to fully customizable Meta-data on every page and post you create (check out what Ron is doing over at the SDInteractive blog),…
December 11, 2008