mattpat.net

Hear ye’, hear ye’! My wonderful website has just become the first official “live” website running a copy of Tux CMS 0.2.

It’s still very much in development, so it might have some rough edges that you’ll probably run into (we’re talking pre-alpha software here ). However, this also means that my site will be the first to show off Tux CMS’s newest in-development features, and as such, I can also use the new module model to add custom features. Neat, huh?

Look for a variety of improvements coming in the very near future. Whenever you see this guy…

… get ready to see some cool new features!

I’m going with the whole “Inspired Design” theory…

Standards are a “good thing.” Not only do they provide guidelines that people can follow when they’re attempting to accomplish something, but they ensure that everyone is playing on level ground, and knows what to expect when their piece of work goes into play. Sure, sometimes standards get (unfortunately) disregarded, but for the most part, they are respected.

In particular, web standards are a very good thing. The Internet is a very open network, and as such, there are many, many different people accessing online resources with many, many different clients. If every client played by its own rules, we’d have a problem. However, standards solve this problem, by giving structure to developers (both of web applications, and of web user agents, or, browsers). But there exists one problem (one of many, no doubt, but still the one on which I intend to focus for now), lurking in the shadows and becoming ever more prevalent each day.

The standards are outdated. (more...)

After two years of work on Tux CMS in total (a year and a half of “official” work), I’ve learned a lot, both about life, and about software development. That little penguin friend of mine has taught me more than I ever thought possible, and for anyone interested out there, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned with you. (more...)

Well, I have some good news and some bad news.

The bad news is that, in a routine website code update, I deleted the Mountain Frost theme. Yeah, that was very very stupid.

The good news however, is two-fold. One, I fixed a bug that now lets me update my website using this nifty little program, Adobe Contribute. Second, it's more motivation for me to get Tux CMS's new Herring Template Engine, along with the new mf2 theme, done faster. Don't ya' love happy endings?