October 6, 2009
Two years ago I was doing a lot of work with Joomla, most of the website Chris Robak and I developed under Web Butter were almost all Joomla backed, and we were pretty happy with that. So when I started working on Radar Redux I installed a copy of Joomla to run behind the scenes. For the most part it ran fine, but the non-programmers contributing there were lots of problems and fussy little features that hardly seemed worth the result.
Now it’s a year later and WordPress has definitely sped off into some great directions, I’m using wordpress for this site and a few others and it’s fantastic, and light weight. Far superior to Joomla now, for both small and larger sites. It has a great community developing addons and backing the software, and tons of great helpful documentation, where as for Joomla resources are few and far between.
While searching I came across a decent resource for pushing Joomla articles over to WordPress. You need to have a basic understanding of PHP and how your MySQL database is set up, ie access to usernames and passwords, i just made a new user for both the joomla and wordpress db with full privileges, and then give this a try. Keep in mind though, you are likely to loose all locally hosted image links as well as read more breaks, as this is a regular expression tactic, which joomla and wordpress handle differently.
May 5, 2009
Now that the semester is almost over I’m finally finishing up the re-design of Polite Authority, and here we are. Lot of stuff is still going to need tweaking and updating but as a whole the site is functioning and that’s more then I could say previously. I’m working on a whole bunch of different things as usual, so I’ll just lay them all out here once and leave it at that!
Disco Boxing
As I mentioned before disco boxing is moving along well and the site explaining and documenting the project is coming up shortly. The basic premise of the project is to create a box witch is 8 ft by 8ft by 8ft and covered in Edison 20 watt light bulbs, 256 to be exact. In the middle of the room there will be a punching bag suspending from the ceiling rigged with pressure sensitive switches and contact microphones to record the hits from the user. Then with that information create different lighting animations with the surrounding room, all which is being computed instantly while the user is punching the bag.
We’ve been accepted to join Artscape’s Midway this year and we’re all really excited about that. Once the semester ends this week most of my time will be dedicated to that project. Right now we are looking for sponsors, we’re able to offer advertisement space on the Midway at Artscape and we can even give a tax deduction through Artscape.
Nicaragua
This summer I’ll be going to Nicaragua for a month starting in July, and unfortunately missing Artscape. I’ll be in MICA’s summer abroad video program making a documentary about the trip and what we come across. Hopefully as the meetings leading up to the trip progress I’ll have more information about what exactly the intent of the trip is.
I also have a bunch of finals coming up, some of which I’ll want to post and I’ll make available through this site as the week progresses!
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