Niall's Weblog

A few weeks ago I needed a designer to produce some HTML/CSS and Photoshop templates for a web project I’m working on. While I have good working knowledge of HTML and CSS, I am not very interested nor efficient at working with it. And even worse, I’m quite poor at coming up with graphic designs. [...]

One of the most annoying things about this whole weblog business is having to write your posts in the browser. I can’t stand entering any more than a few sentences in a web browser text area. Not only because web browsers are so unstable, prone to crashing, or that its so easy to press the [...]

For a long time I’ve considered Word Press to be an awful pile of poo. Simply consider that its written in PHP, a bad, buggy language, and is futher full of security holes of its own making. I was thinking about writing my own implementation in Python (maybe TurboGears or Django or my own thing) [...]