Code In Zen

This is so cool!

Checkout the theme in full swing here.

Tags: wordpress, blogging, themes

I downloaded Flock last night and promptly removed it from my machine after I found how slow it was.

Well well, this morning whilst catching up with some blog post, I came across this at the Cult of Mac blog. It seems that I didn’t download the beta but a stable version that ran like a pig. I remember trying flock out on Windows when everyone was raving about it. It was just too slow for me, so it was removed from my machine very quickly.

Essentially Flock is Firefox with all these little social network goodies for Facebook, Flickr, de.licio.us and other things built into it. This post is being written in Flock’s built-in blog editor which doesn’t seem too bad.

If you’re a Firefox and Facebook user, you will love Flock. All Firefox settings and bookmarks are imported seamlessly. It feels the same as Firefox but sometime the interface seems a little cluttered. I think that with a little tweaking I could change this.

I might try Flock out for a while. Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised.

Tags: flock, browser, blogging, social software

Just a reminder for myself, when my desktop blogging client doesn’t work add the following to the .htaccess:

<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

Courtesy of this link. Hopefully .htaccess wont reset itself again - grrrr.

Tags: Blogging, Wordpress

After over a year in hiatus, I’m happy to announce that I have re-launched my beloved web site, Code In Zen!

This site has gone through several incarnations over the years. I plan, in good time, to import the blogger and .TEXT posts. Code In Zen now runs on Word Press.

Over the years, my writings have mainly been technical in nature mostly relating to .NET. But things have changed and I wont be focusing entirely on .NET anymore. I don’t really do much .NET programming these days. I still manage really talented .NET programmers, but the majority of my professional time is now taken up in management. I still code in my spare time. I’ve been learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I thought that to keep myself interested I would code something different to what I’ve been doing over the years - it keeps it interesting I think. The PC’s have also gone and now I do my stuff at home on a Macintosh. It doesn’t mean I don’t love Windows and .NET anymore, it was time for a change.

Hope to see you around.

JV