Scripts.Indisguise.Org - a hobbyist's blog and scripts archive

I’ve finally upgraded Indiscripts to WordPress 2.5, and uploaded a new layout for the blog. There might be a few quirks here and there, which I will sort out in a bit — it’s already 1AM and I’m bushed!

Just in case the new WordPress mucks about with the download pages on my website, remember that you can always use the quick download page to download the scripts. :)

Known issues at the moment

I have accidentally left out code block styling, and the download pages’ comment form looks rather weird with all the floating and margins. I’ll be getting on that once I get back home. ;) Edited to add: Done! :)

If you see anything amiss, let me know.

I haven’t been able to do any proper public blogging (or much hobby design or development work, for that matter) for a while now because of some pretty exciting developments so far: I have been in Singapore since early last week, and I have just started working as a web developer/front-end engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia. My best friends will now be HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with a little PHP. Words cannot completely express my excitement and anticipation at this new opportunity! I will now proceed to pepper my statements with exclamation points!!

Kidding aside, I’m still easing into everything, and even when I’ve been here for a longer period of time, I still won’t be able to go into a lot of details about work in Yahoo!, but what does this mean for my hobby work, my linkware scripts, this blog and scripts archive?

It means I’ll probably be a bit more exposed to new and emerging web trends and technologies and techniques, revolving around how things look, usability, accessibility, and stuff like that. That’s quite a bit more time to immerse myself with web things, which I have always wanted to do, and might probably impact either blog posts here or scripts I create/update (hopefully for the better! ;)).

It will hopefully mean that as my involvement with work!PHP will be lesser this time around, I might have more interest in working with PHP in my own free time. A lot of the development for my scripts have stalled because of two things: work (and travel to/from it) keeps me busy, and when I do get time to putty around, I don’t feel like working with the same things I’ve been working with the whole week (read: PHP). That’s just the way it really is. I’m hoping that my love for PHP work/coding gets revived (not that it really died, but you know what I mean) and that I can finally push in a lot of the things I have planned for my scripts, especially Enthusiast.

It will also hopefully mean more fun postings about tech and various non-sensitive Yahoo! stuff. :D For non-tech updates or maybe tech ramblings that are far too random for this blog, there is always my Livejournal, which anyone can watch if they so like. I do post publicly there time and time again.

I’ll see you around. ;)

It seems like I can’t make up my mind in terms of this site’s layout — let’s hope this stays longer! I like it better than the previous, mostly because it feels much cleaner than the last one, and allows for more space when possible: something that I’ve missed in previous layout, and something that I feel is important for documentation. The good news is that I get even more used to working with WP; I wrote a quick plugin for grabbing random content (post and/or pages) according to a few parameters. Will put it up for download after I prettify it a bit.

Edited to add: I just realized (thanks, Mosey!) that commenting was broken for Indiscripts! My bad, it was a missing WP file that was the culprit. Rest assured I have shuffled him back to the ranks. ;)

It’s past midnight and I need sleep, but I’ve finally been able to give Indiscripts a new look plus update it to WordPress 2.1; if you’re running 2.1.1, you must upgrade to 2.1.2! Said version is dangerous. Don’t forget.

I’m pleased enough with how the new look came out, although I’m not wholly happy with it — a few things I wanted to do, I had no time to implement (or, well, figure out how to implement). I’m happy to say, though, that all the plugins I used work, so there shouldn’t be anything broken with the site; if there is, just let me know.

I actually have a bugfix release for Enthusiast 3.1 sort of ready, only because it’s been a while since I’ve been able to move around the support forums I’m not sure if there are new bugs around; I feel I need to check up on it first, although this bugfix release is long overdue. Sigh, I’m just really swamped nowadays, and I’m feeling the need to finish Ind.Org first, too. Argh.

Yay for revamps! It’s only been a while since the last one, but while I was doing Enthusiast support stuff, I had this strong impulse to redo my scripts archive and actually start implementing my long-term plans for it — so now here we are, the redone Indiscripts! This isn’t just a new look and the new recent scripts section, but it comes with a new Tutorials section plus the updates blog being turned into an actual tech/webdev/etc blog.

I’d been meaning to ramble and wax verbose on “geeky” subjects and thoughts and whatnot, and I had always felt a trifle guilty whenever I did that on eljay (a.k.a. Seasonal Wanderer) because it’s really more of a personal journal, Dear Diary and all that jazz. Hence, here you are — Indiscripts transformed into a proper blog but still containing the core stuff (read: my scripts).

It’s almost eleven and I need sleep, so I’m off after this quick website update post. There are still some things that need to be done: post categories, post tags, spruce up how the post comments look, etc — but for now this will have to do. Yay for quasi-beginnings!