Category Archives: Challenge 3 – Try 30 New Tools
Deck Design Concept 4
Here is a newer version of the deck, incorporating more of our fantasies into the design. There may be some issues with the height of the deck being too low. I’m still working out the issues and sketchup is giving me a few fits… Slowly we get there Because of the height issues we [...]
High Priority – Designing a Deck
My semi-retirement is off to a good start, one of the things on my list of must do’s is getting the design of a new deck going as well as built. My house is a little bit over 40 years old, and my other half has an idea that the deck is original to the [...]
Creating A Secure Cross Platform/Cross Computer Data Sync Cloud Solution – Part 1
I have a lot of computers. More than the average bear. With the addition of Pixie, my new little netbook, I have once again come to the question: Do I want a folder out on the Internet (cloud) so I can access my files from everywhere? Back in June, I took a look at [...]
10 Tools that Built the Skillful WordPress Theme
I have been having lots of fun working on getting some new features and speeding up Skillfulmeans. My real intention was to start wrapping my mind around CSS, PHP, and finally speed up my little blog a bit. I learned quite a bit along the way. I’m hoping that my changes can help some of [...]
Working on the New “Skillful Means” Template
Yesterday, I wrote a about creating a local development environment for WordPress on my local Vista laptop. I had a feeling that this would be a much easier way to work on things like developing a new theme for my blog. I am so glad that I did. Having a local development environment allowed me [...]
Creating a WordPress Development Environment on Windows XP/Vista
I have decided to learn a bit more about the innards of my little wordpress blog. I have an idea or two for widgets, and I definitely wanted to work on the template, all this and with little risk to my production installation (the wordpress blog site that you are currently reading this post on). [...]
An improved swine map while I deal with my lag-de-jet
I have been a little tired, so I can’t really even find the energy to kick myself for missing a days post. I suspect that there was little missing me, well maybe just a little missing me. A buddy did send me a cool new swine-flu tracker map. This one improved from the last improved [...]
Last Post before Break… scribefire on linux
Tonight (Friday night) I’m installing a few more necessary items on my tiny laptop, some that I will need to take care some things once I take off into the wild blue yonder. There may be a few opportunities that have come up recently that I’m giving thought to, and I haven’t made up my [...]
