I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered sass. Sass is a preprocessor for css that makes editing your site’s style much more manageable. It includes things like variables and scoping that makes editing style a lot easier. Sass can then be compiled to normal css and used in any website.
Development
Writing about software development.
On Dragon Burn Photography
As a volunteer for Dragon Burn I am responsible for maintaining the Dragon Burn website. Part of that responsibility is curating images created by the Dragon Burn Community. As with other aspects of running a Burn, what seems like a simple task can have some unique challenges.
Setting up a Development Environment for Forge Modding
Note: Since I have a Windows machine this tutorial will focus on that platform.
How to Learn Minecraft Modding
Learning for the sake of learning is an exercise in futility. You will often end up losing focus and will never have achieved anything. You need to set a clear goal, and then figure out how to meet that goal.
Social Links: No need to use plugins
Social media links can help a site gain a following. They can allow people to share pages and follow your social media pages. There are several plugins that can add links for you and they can work quite well.
Category Pages
I wanted to split up my content in a neat and tidy way. I realised the easiest way to do this would be to split up my content by category.
When Plugins Collide
When making a new post one day I came across a bug in my website. I created a new post, attached a featured image, and hit preview. I got a messed up page that had two copies of my featured image above the page content.
Improved Excerpts
The default excerpts in WordPress are, in my opinion, a bit crap. All images and subheadings are stripped out and it always stops in the middle of a sentence. It also ends in that “[.]” which I don’t like.
Optimising WordPress
I spent the better part of last week improving my blog, and I figured I would write about my experiences. WordPress is a great platform and I’m having fun working with it.
Lesson of the Week: MySQL bits are bigger than expected in C#
If you have a bit(1) in a MySQL table, guess what type it is converted to when you make a query using C#’s MySQL helper? unsigned long Yep, that’s right. The smallest possible type gets converted to the longest possible type when you make a query through c#.