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The new dev.NOVALISTIC

The new dev.NOVALISTIC is now up! At long last, some real progress with the site is now visible. At this rate, the new NOVALISTIC will be up in no time (read: a few months’ time)!

I’m sorry it took me so long to develop such a simple site; in fact, I only really got down to it 2 weeks ago since I had absolutely no inspiration of what kind of design to give the development-centric area of my site.

But now it’s here! As you can see, I haven’t been lazing around at all. This is the first time I’m employing certain advanced CSS3 techniques such as @font-face and text-shadow, and I’ve also thrown in a pinch of jQuery goodness!

For now, you can check out some projects I’m working on and view demos of my work. The new development site is pretty small right now, but hopefully I’ll get enough work to expand its content even more!

Just a little note: the WordPress demo blog has now been relocated to the demos section of dev.NOVALISTIC (kinda appropriate, don’t you think?). Don’t worry: http://dev.NOVALISTIC.com/wordpress and all permalinks will canonically redirect to the new URL http://dev.NOVALISTIC.com/demos/wordpress respectively.

dev.NOVALISTIC – Because testing is awesome.

WordPress 2.8 is now available! This new version isn’t as huge as WordPress 2.7, but it does come with some nifty new features of its own, like:

• A totally redesigned widgets interface (and revamped widgets API)
• A polished interface
• More screen options, giving you even finer control over your WordPress admin panel

One underlying optimization feature in WordPress 2.8’s admin panel is the compression of JavaScript to make for faster loads. However, there are some plugins that are incompatible with this new feature. As a result they totally break the JavaScript of the admin panel, which is not pretty.

I have quite a lot of plugins installed *cough* but have only found Delink Comment Author 1.3 by Alex King to be incompatible.

EDIT [6/13]: Leo pointed out that this is due to jQuery 1.3 dropping support for XPath selectors and can be trivially fixed. See his comment for instructions. Thanks Leo!

WordPress 2.8 RC1 is now available for download!

Unfortunately, it seems the JavaScript in my admin panel totally stopped working after I upgraded from WordPress 2.7.1 to 2.8 RC1. I have now rolled back painlessly. Thank God for FTP backups with FileZilla and, more importantly, database backups with the excellent WP-DBManager plugin for WordPress.

Oh well, WordPress 2.8 will go gold on the 10th! I can’t wait

Introducing Tweetimony, a site where Twitter users can share their testimonies about God’s blessings in their lives (you know I’m a Christian, right?)! To see your testimony, or rather, Tweetimony, all you have to do is just follow @tweetimony, send an @reply to it saying what you wish to thank God for, and there shall it be! It’s that simple

By the way, in case you’re wondering, I didn’t develop the backend. I only themed an existing application, but of course put in extra effort into designing the theme! Here’s how Tweetimony came to be: that Lee guy who made Twessage! decided one day to give away a few free copies. I @replied to him and was one of some people to receive a free copy (I owe you a huge one, Lee!), and the rest, as they say, is history!

Enjoy Tweetimony, and God bless you!

Ever wondered why I haven’t posted since the time of the SitePoint bushfire relief efforts (which by the way garnered well over AU$300k when it ended!)? That’s because I have been busy at school with my new semester having just started less than a week ago — and because I have been hard at work on the new NOVALISTIC!

NOVALISTIC 4.0 “Sarathos”, to be exact. You may have heard me mention it quite a few times throughout this blog…

Well, I am going to turn NOVALISTIC back into my personal online home again. This time, it’ll not be some site where I present a whole bunch of stuff that makes absolutely no sense. Instead, it’ll become my professional web development portfolio, and I’m serious about being serious this time! I’ve had enough fun back in my innocent days; the time has come to be professional in what I do! Or something.

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