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After the completion and upload of recent changes the client requested, I realised it might be a wiser choice to skip all the hassles of creating html pages from scratch and implement everything in a CMS.

Mind you, the site was small, 6 pages including the index and the newly requested “news section”. Still I thought it would be fun to see where this would get me and how long it would take.

Since I had experience with WordPress having hacked together a major site using it and converted a design to a WordPress template. I figured it shouldn’t be that difficult.

Updated: Main site has been moved to the WordPress version.

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Posted in Clients, Me, Method, WKWSCI, devlog, thoughts · November 4th, 2008 · Comments (0)

wordpress.ornyx.net

Started this to consolidate all the plugins written for ASI for sharing with the community. All are GPL and am hoping to push it up to WordPress Extend.

For now, I’m happy to say that ASI’s almost done. Exciting times.

Just wishing now there is some FOSS app that will automatically trawl a SVN repo and generate project pages for general public consumption out there with download links, info, descriptions and what not.

Tags: asi, development, plugins, site, wordpress
Posted in ASI, Method, Server, devlog · July 15th, 2008 · Comments (0)

Almost done!

After almost 2 weeks of intensive development, ASI’s web presence is almost done. Right at this point in time, there leaves just one last milestone, the development of the Products section. It has been a most interesting journey, most of which were spent refamiliarising myself with web development as well as Wordpress development.

• First time using revision control (subversion) to manage development of site. This was made possible due to the fact that Wordpress theme files were all stored at one place and loaded all from one single location.
  • Total of 47 commits
  • 3 directories being tracked
• Made use of 2 Mac apps Versions and Coda. Might buy the license since I’m using them and earning money from using them.
• Wordpress plugin development to extend functionality now stands at 2 such plugins.
  • Category based archives to initially allow date based archives to show only entries from a particular category. Made use of rewrite rules. Might release to Wordpress plugins DB.
  • Random Comments for “Word of Mouth” feature.
• Hacked some components of Wordpress as well.
• Plans for a better theme by integrating options within Wordpress Admin area.
• 4 days spent on design solely with incremental changes whilst in integration.
• 1.5 weeks spent on integration.

Tags: asi, development, stats, web, work
Posted in ASI, Clients, devlog · July 14th, 2008 · Comments (0)

Technicalities for ASI

This is the first time I’m using subversion in managing the development of the design for a client.

Since the project deals with lots of code (XHTML/CSS/PHP) for the development of their site in Wordpress based upon a CMS idea, I’ve setup a Subversion repository to store code updates to the design as well as a plugin I wrote just for the project.

Having a revision control system helps a lot with devleopment as I can roll back changes. However the most fun part is deploying work. Its either an svn co or svn export to get the latest repository changes.

So far, its been a good thing getting it standards compliant. IE7, Firefox, Safari and Opera sees everything more or less the same.

Posted in ASI, Clients, Method, devlog · July 10th, 2008 · Comments (0)