We are hosting a PSD to XHTML/CSS contest kindly oferred by fe coding.

If you designed your own theme in a graphics software such as Adobe Photoshop, but you don’t have the required skills to turn it into a perfectly valid XHTML/CSS theme, you have come to the right place.

The contest is as follows:

3 of my visitors (commentators) will receive a free PSD to XHTML conversion, 139$ value. The 1st, 5th and 15th visitor to post a comment on this post wins.

What could you comment about?

• Have you ever coded your own Photoshop-built theme?
• Is it worth it?
• What do you think about outsourcing this side of your work?

The contest has ended, and, due to a massive lack of comments and some trouble with the commenting system, we have only one winner.

He will get contacted these days. Thank you!

So you decided to create a lot of web sites to make money out of them. You are the administrator of almost 10 web sites (static, dynamic, CMS, whatever). You want more because you think more web sites will bring you more money. Actually, more web sites will bring you more trouble IF you don’t get over the second phase with them.

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The Internet appeared in 1983. More detailed discussions on this subject are outside the scope of this article. We will learn how to create a JavaScript widget showing how old is the internet.

First of all, we need to write a prototype function of a date. As the JavaScript code is wrapping a bit weird with my theme, here is the finished .js file:

time.js

As the function is included in the head (either external or included), all we need to add is:

<script type="text/javascript">
	var oPast = new Date(1983, 1, 1, 0, 0);
	document.write(oPast.toTimeSinceString(6, ',  ', ' and '));
</script>

Download a .zip file with a finished HTML example.

The financial crisis is slowly affecting Romania, too. Another contract finished, as one of the companies I was hosting, shut down. This makes me work harder and harder to further develop my online empire and become a real blog tycoon.

You know about blog tycoon, don’t you? It’s a blog directory, a small one for now.

So what’s with the title? Liar’s poker is a bar game that combines statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with the eight-digit serial number on a dollar bill.

Liar’s Poker is also a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author’s experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that define Wall Street during the 1980s, along with Barbarians at the Gate and the fictional The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. The book captures well an important period in the history of Wall Street.

The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.

Read the great article about the end of Wall Street’s Boom.

I’ll tell you more after I read the book.

Photo: Ji Lee

Hello again, I just updated my blog to version 2.7. The dashboard seems a little bit cluttered, but maybe it’s just me getting used to the new appearance.

I seem to be having an issue with the fonts. I don’t like the combination of sans-serif and serif fonts. I also don’t like italics font. I’m a web designer.

There is a problem which ocurred after the upgrade. A jQuery unresponsive script. The source, as indicated by the browser and the wpTuner plugin, is edit-form-advanced.php in wp-admin folder. The problem ocurred in the Write section and sometimes in the Plugins section. As a result, the drag and drop functionality and several panels were missing.

A rough solution was to edit edit-form-advanced.php like this:

Find these lines:

<?php
$metadata = has_meta($post->ID);
list_meta($metadata);
?>

and comment them out. It’s unelegant and it might last until the next upgrade, but maybe the WordPress team will fix this problem. If not, you;ll just have to edit this file again and again.