Posts tagged “blog”

Well, I’ve updated the site. Unfortunately all my posts are now marked as being created in the last few days. So that’s on my “to fix” list.

In the mean time though, you can now browse my site on a phone.

I’ve been playing about with Twitter’s Bootstrap and decided to convert my blog over to use that.

I’ve got an offline version complete and will be updating the site shortly, it will also be responsive and look lovely on mobile devices.

I think I’ve been to BadgerBadgerBadger more times than I’ve written blog posts. I keep thinking something I’ve done would be interesting to blog about but when it comes down to it I can never think of what to write.

For now though, I’ve just converted my blog over to Umbraco, only took me a couple of evenings. I’m hoping the nicer backend than my custom site with it’s out the box asp.net styles will encourage me to write more.

I will have a few things to blog about in the near future too. I am currently building a remote control rover robot based on a QWERK control board. I’ve hit a bit of a snag trying to step down my 7.5v battery to 3v for the motors but hopefully I’ll get that sussed out soon then I can crack on and focus on the wireless part of the project.

Finally got round to fixing an issue where a 404 was being recorded as error. Should save some disk space :) I’ve also added a new friend link for Greg and Jen who are off traveling round the world.

Hopefully this will inspire me to get my ass in gear and do a bit more work on my blog and maybe even write some blog posts! One thing I really want to do is update the design and javascript so when I post code it fits on the page and is syntax highlighted automatically.

There is still a lot to do but I have finally gotten a working version of my blog online. I chose to write my own blog for a chance to play with asp.net MVC 3 and the Razor view engine. So far I really like the Razor view engine and think my HTML looks much cleaner when working with it. Here is a list of what I hope to update over time:

• Add a search feature
• Have a correctly formatted date when viewing old posts
• Implement MetaWeblog API
• Comments support
• Contact page
• Detect tweets not loading and add redundency
• Add a custom error page
• Make sure all the HTML and CSS is valid
• Minify and combine the js files
• A few styling tweaks

Maybe add a style for lists too.

I did manage to implement an RSS feed and tags which I had missed or not wanted in my original specification.

I would like to thank Steven Gibson (@glasgowtozocalo) for doing the design for me. It’s got the clean, easy to read look I wanted and I’m really happy with it.