To commemorate the occasion of Canada’s 143rd birthday, I swapped out my outer space Firefox persona for a more patriotic message.
Canada Rocks Firefox Persona
Show your patriotic colours and load the theme on your own browser!
WordPress: How to show a specific post or page
Jun 04, 2010 by Tony Chung in Technology
I have a lot of fun playing with content management systems. Last week I wrote about some of the fun stuff I’m doing with MediaWiki. This time I’ll be looking at a specific task common to WordPress template creation: How to retrieve the contents of a specific post or page using the get_post() function.
My first attempts using get_post() returned empty values. After hours of searching and plugging away at the task, things started to click. I figured I should record this keep track of the solution for future reference, and to help out anyone else with the same problem.
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Bang my head against the MediaWiki wall
May 28, 2010 by Tony Chung in Productivity
One of my really cool projects is to harness the collaborative CMS features of MediaWiki as a means to store comments within an HTML-based help system. I thought I’d start by implementing a forms-based entry that created wiki pages when first loaded, but after getting so far I’ve been banging my head against the wall.
Let me explain what I’ve done so far, with the hope that someone out there on teh Interweb would be able to help me out. I’ll post an update when I get it sorted out. (Sorry, I’m not posting screen shots to save time.
STC TCS 2010 Dallas Photo Journal
May 09, 2010 by Tony Chung in Society
In the interest of time, I thought I’d share the photos I took in Dallas with the world the quickest way possible. I quickly weeded through the doubles and darkies on my disk, imported them into iPhoto, then exported them into a new Picasa album. This is my first attempt to embed a Picasa album.
Read the write up for more insight.
Got to hold Olympic torch at lunch
Feb 11, 2010 by Tony Chung in Personality
The 2010 Olympic spirit is alive in Coquitlam. I went fo lunch woth my wife today, and met a couple of torch relay runners. The young guy on my left is Derek from Port Alberni, who ran a 300 metre stretch. It all happened so fast. Derek’s wife came to collect their toddler and him, [...]
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