Comments, Templates, Work In Progress
posted 2012.04.20 at 15:53 | 1 comment
Man At Work, PENNDOT style - put the sign up and do nothing for a few weeks.
Less than that, probably.
Eric updated MT for dcr.org and ATC this afternoon. He dug up this document, which so far seems to have addressed all of the errors that have cropped up as a result of the update.
As I opted to revert a bunch of templates, the comment experience presently looks like the MT defaults on dcr.org, dcr.viz, loc.dcr and the DCRSA. I'll get this fixed at some point in the near future. While it's not a high priority for today, getting this sorted falls under the same umbrella as getting comments retooled on the ATC website, so it'll be done within the next couple of days.
Final Cut !Pro
posted 2012.01.17 at 14:48 | comment
Ars Technica : Why the video pros are moving away from Apple. (src = ejp)
The new version of Final Cut Pro was controversial--there were significant changes to the Final Cut interface, a plethora of editing features were taken away, and worst of all, Final Cut Pro X was rendered unable to import projects from previous versions of the software."If we are taking the time to retrain people for a brand new software--which is what FCPX is--then we might as well use tools that are more industry standards here in L.A. like Avid and, now, Premiere Pro," Hancock told Ars. "There are too many choices and options for better, more professional options that keep us working and employable here in L.A. What's sad is that Apple was destroying Avid and really cutting into their revenue and market share. Now Avid, by default, is going to revert back the to industry standard."
Read the rest of Final Cut !Pro.
Liberty, Pennsylvania
posted 2011.12.29 at 21:07 | 4 comments
Tioga County is VZW territory. Attempt no landings there.
Read the rest of Liberty, Pennsylvania.
/noise/ filtering
posted 2011.12.22 at 02:33 | comment
I've applied the current dcr.org flavoring to my old blog. This is in keeping with the updates to PPAC and the DCR strip archive. Same basic formatting for all of them, each with its own trick or quirk or think-through separate from the challenges of loc.dcr and old.loc.
I'm really getting to know Movable Type. Given that my day job involves a good amount of WordPress, it's been a nice change of pace.
Read the rest of /noise/ filtering.
The DCR Strip Archive : Reformatted
posted 2011.12.16 at 20:52 | comment
Dead City Radio - the webcomic that got this domain started - has been wholly ATC resident since the beginning of Chapter Three. The first two chapters of the story were posted to this domain in draft comic strip form over the course of five years.
The DCR strip archive has been overhauled.
Ultimately an excuse to play around with MT 3.x exports and mass comment re-enabling. This consisted of exporting the blog from the old CMS, then finding ALLOW COMMENTS: 0 (comments disabled) and ALLOW COMMENTS: 2, (comments closed), replacing those bits with ALLOW COMMENTS: 1 (comments enabled). While I don't expect this functionality to be used, it was a convenient means of playing around with comment reconfiguring to see how it'll eventually work out for ATC.
The basic data model is the same - now with less tables and more CSS.
I thought about installing AssHAT, but the functionality was ultimately unnecessary for this project. That doesn't mean I won't find a use for it in the future, though!
The Known Unknowns
posted 2011.11.09 at 11:40 | comment
On the one hand, the blog is finally Entirely HTML/CSS, roughly ten years after everyone started buzzing about it. On the other, there's goofiness on the iPhone 3gs running ios5 (and whatever version of Safari that comes with ios5).
