I just found out today that me and my big bad boss are off to sxsw next week, courtesy of our employer, 2Checkout. I can not help but be inexcusably excited.

I plan on attending talks by some of my heroes: Dustin Diaz, Jeffrey Zeldman, Dave Shea, Matt Mullenweg, Rick Ellis, and John Resig.

If you are going, leave a comment, I would love to meet up.

Site launched!

Just launched the site with the sexy theme you see here, inspired by lite-brite and the use of cheap effective vector brushes.

The posting here will be mainly focused on the little pieces of code i write during the course of my day. I will release code, themes and plugins here when i get around to finalizing and packaging stuff.

A couple of notes on the creation of this site, in no reasonable order:

• Wordpress is annoying sometimes, but it is still the best publishing platform out there.
• Wordpress widgets are weak. They do not allow for the level of customization that i usually like to have.
• To anyone who has tangled with it, the backend implementation of the tagging / taxonomy system is nightmarish, which is surprising because it is so reasonable in bbPress.
• Transparent pngs are awesome.
• I hate it when flexibility is sacrificed for convenience. I am using several plugins that required way too much work in order to use the way i wanted to. For example, the “add this” plugin uses filters instead of simply allowing template tags, so it shows up where it wants to, instead of where i want it to. The twitter tools plugin only provides its front end functionality via a widget, rather than providing some means of using it in any other way. :p
• IE7 is barely an improvement, it has been an unreal pain in the ass during the creation of this site.
• I desire to do everything in excessively flamboyant ways that are completely unreasonable, inaccessible, and totally lacking in subtlety.
• CSS3 needs to happen sooner.
• so does IE8
• i love making websites.