Day #4 – haunting a ghost bug; impressions on WordPress

Ill is this {asci-art}sy word and the way I felt yesterday, predicting myself a 30-40% productivity. I started by outlining the tasks to accomplish and decided to start with recapitulation of the day before  in(to) a little blogpost. The thing that drove my nerves (mad) was any attempt in https://wordpress.com/post/ got stuck on the “Beep beep boop” loading screen…I decided to investigate that mystery to not have to switch Firefox and Chromium back and forth all the time.

Whining on mozilla forums only pointed me to things I already supposed should help, i.e. sniffing around the addons which would be the case.

Therefore I wanted to post their list immediately…which isn’t as trivial as it seemed. You have to install this one more add-on to have your addons listed and yet it’s very premature and the format being plain text. So I have to filter just the active plugins manually. Put this little code( — here it goes as promised) into Sublime’s replace:

(.*(\(Disabled\)|\(Incompatible\)).*)\n

(assure of regEx are checked) and replace all by an empty string. Didn’t you hear yet, you should learn regular expressions, a.k.a. regEx? They are fun and sometimes useful.

Well, it happened to seem the mystery bug disappeared just after throwing Firefox into the Safe mode and coming back. Here was the editor!..just that it did stuck on save/preview this time..:(

To keep with the tradition of Blogging ’bout blogging I have to say I expected more solid stability from in the WordPress interface( — looked different from one day to the other) as well as broader capabilities in it’s editor( in Dashboard). Just one example is you have to go from the “Visual” to the “Text” tab to make a piece of code inline( like this). Other, quite a crucial feature I miss is smaller/larger font size. How they dare to cut that out while leaving a hulk of empty space in the formatting toolbar?

Well, now getting into the ADT bootstrapping so to beget some first scamp Android apps…

Dev day #3: Here’s the web, where are You ?

Ok, yesterday went from my intention to get dev&deploy process running into unexpected negotiations with the web space. It appeared with a problem of my Firefox totally messed up, after I (flippantly )allowed it to upgrade to version 30…which was an downgrade actually, at least in some regards — The add-on bar got removed as well as many of my customizations( also done with add-ons) got grossly broken.

This is what peed into my face after starting the new version. Page title all missing, addon buttons crammed into the URL/search launchers row etc. I was yet to find out the new menu don’t work(=open) at all…

Well, that is nothing but a trial of endurance — that which distinguish the frightened coward losers from reasonable men.(..was what I said to myself after taking many deep breaths.)

Whimpering about the ‘blind jump of hope‘ upgrade and  this “more secure and faster” bright image policy  by which the Foundation is foisting the dubious updates,  I swiftly approached the havoc by installing Status-4-Evar addon, which recreates the age-old status bar capabilities. I pushed the buttons that unwelcomely (been )moved into the address bar right back into this brand shiny status field where they belong. Disabling some plugins and a few restarts solved( fairly reasonably) other disturbances so was I ready to view, research( with Diigo highlights) and organize theh webz in a consistent flow again.

 

The other thin(kin)g was, the night before I decided to start a blog to track my daily progress and success(es) with a several words summary. So here I am, picking the most easy-to-use and bullet-fast, yet flexible( unlike Twitter or over-simplifications alike) publishing platform — The great WordPress. Pondering about the domain( name)s and (visual )themes, I skimmed through settings wizard  to the first post. This writting I expected to take me minutes was like 3( or 4) hours composition, the result feeling mostly satisfying, though gosh! I must learn to be more concise!

At least I have our web presence (somewhat )covered from both ends now. 😉

Sorry no code today, tomorrow will bring some, sure thing.