CSS and Blogger links

Here are a few of the pages I referenced in re-doing the design on this site:

For CSS Stuff:

  • glish.com — some useful layouts.
  • The Layout Reservoir — the design I’m using right now is a variation on their 2-column with left menu design.

    For Blogger template help:

  • Templates
  • Template Walkthrough
  • Template Tag list
  • Template Tags: defined
  • messing around

    I set some stuff up tonight to allow me to easily add Technorati tags to blog entries. I used this Greasemonkey script to mod the Blogger posting page under Firefox 1.5. Not a big deal, but kind of fun.

    I also messed around with some style-related stuff on this page. There’s actually some CSS being used now. No major change, but at least I’m starting to play with CSS.

    VS.NET 2005

    I just got done installing VS.NET 2005 on my new desktop machine at home. I’m still working my way through ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer’s Notebook. I’m just starting the Data Access chapter. The limited version of SQL Server that comes with VS.NET does not have the pubs or Northwind databases installed by default. If you want to install them, you can find setup scripts for them under “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8SDKv2.0SamplesSetup”, named InstPubs.sql and InstNwnd.sql. To run the scripts, do this:

    sqlcmd -S .SQLEXPRESS -i InstPubs.sql
    sqlcmd -S .SQLEXPRESS -i InstNwnd.sql

    That seemed to be worth writing down, just in case I need to do it again…

    more project management stuff

    A couple of follow-ups from yesterday’s long post.

    • Matt Woodward talks about Subversion and Trac on his blog, in an entry from just a few days ago.
    • MoinMoin Wiki is a wiki written in Python. It might be worth trying, since it doesn’t rely on a bunch of stuff that’s external to Python. It seems to be pretty much self-contained.
    • Swiki Swiki is a wiki that’s built on top of a web server called Comanche that’s implemented in Squeak, which is apparently an open-source Smalltalk implementation. I downloaded it and played around a bit today. It’s actually pretty neat, but probably not what I’m looking for.
    • WikiMatrix is a site allowing you to compare a bunch of wikis, feature-by-feature. It’s pretty slick.
    • OnLamp has an article comparing open-source wikis. It’s about a year old, but still useful.