When I rewrote Orbital in Angular.js I found that it was very easy to pick up, but that the official docs were still pretty patchy.
Egghead.io made it very easy to pick up new concepts through very simple, very quick screencasts, one concept at a time. Great stuff if you are thinking about using Angular.js.
After a lot of subway rides and wednesday nights, you can now install the best feed reader for WordPress right from your wordpress admin panel.
Once you are logged into your wordpress admin screen:
The plugin should show you where it is, tell you how to use it, and away you go!
It’s early days on this thing, so please tell me what’s difficult, what’s wrong, what could be improved.
https://soundcloud.com/pomdeterrific/pomdeter-call-me-a-hole
This photo is of St. Quentin Cathedral in northern France, which burned down in August 1917.
via Unseen World War I photos: Destroyed Cathedrals.
A ruined cathedral is a special kind of place. All the synergistic work of man, all that drive to order and organization – laid back to chaos and dirt so quickly.
Speaking of the synergistic work of man, this is the first post I’ve ever made publicly from Orbital Feed Reader!
I first heard of Laura from her great song Pink Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgVv9bF3JTk
Today’s my first day back to work after my paternity leave. Wish me luck!
The Orbital Reader Plugin is starting to really tighten up thanks to help from friends testing.
Here’s me browsing through feeds, finding something to blog, and publishing it.
Still interested in collaborators – every lil bit helps!
I also created an animated GIF for browsers that don’t support the video tag
In Orbital Feed Reader I’m trying to make sure that I’m doing things in smart ways – I don’t have much time to work on it. One thing that people do when they create software is make icons – lots of them for different sizes. This has always seemed strange to me – most icons aren’t photos, so I don’t get the point. There’s a graphics format called SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics – that automatically resizes itself at any resolution. It’s smooth and very small – and all modern browsers support SVG.
So I’m trying to use SVG for any icons that aren’t available as unicode symbols.
Those two icons are free icons for Feeds and OPML and they are both SVG. This was such an easy choice that I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do it. The only thing that was a little off is that the OPML icon had a little bit more blank space than I wanted, so I edited it in the free, open source SVG editor Inkscape. Here’s the new version I made.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The folks over at liquidorb made this icon available under a CC-BY-SA license so I’m giving them credit and making my derivative work available under the same license.
Font icons are kind of fashionable in web development these days. What’s awesome about them is that you get all the clever wonderful benefits of how good browsers are at rendering webfonts. In a way, a web font used for font icons is like a png sprite for SVGs – you get one server round trip and then a bunch of reusable images.
It’s a good idea if you need to show some custom icons. Me, I’m too cheap for that. For Orbital I’m trying to make sure that there is a very small footprint. Rather than using a custom web font I’m just getting creative with the unicode tables.
As far as I can tell, unicode has some pretty easy to understand symbols for add (+), refresh(⟳) and edit(✎). So I get decent, scalable icons for zero server round trips!
The music leaves me cold, but I dig how Califone makes their video for stitches from a set of curated tumblr blogs.
This is similar to what I did with a self illustrating short story.