colophon :: what this is and how i made it
Here's a quick rundown of the people and technologies that fuel this site.
about the author
My name is James and I was born in 1970 in Ft. Worth, Texas. In my formative years, my family relocated to Huntsville, Arkansas (a crappy little rural town). After high school, I had the good sense to move down the road to Fayetteville, Arkansas and study at the University of Arkansas. At the U of A, I earned three degrees (BA & MA in English, M.Ed. in Educational Technology), met my wife, played in several bands, and finally made the transition from restaurant work to what most people would call a "real" job.
In the fall of 2003, My wife and I relocated to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which is just outside Charleston, so she could pursue a degree in pharmacy (which she sucessfully completed in the spring of 2008). In January 2008, our son was born.
I work in the Information Technology division of a local technical college. On the side, I teaches online English classes, play music, and tinker with websites. There are a few more details in the in the life section.
My name is James and I was born in 1970 in Ft. Worth, Texas. In my formative years, my family relocated to Huntsville, Arkansas (a crappy little rural town). After high school, I had the good sense to move down the road to Fayetteville, Arkansas and study at the University of Arkansas. At the U of A, I earned three degrees (BA & MA in English, M.Ed. in Educational Technology), met my wife, played in several bands, and finally made the transition from restaurant work to what most people would call a "real" job.
In the fall of 2003, My wife and I relocated to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which is just outside Charleston, so she could pursue a degree in pharmacy (which she sucessfully completed in the spring of 2008). In January 2008, our son was born.
I work in the Information Technology division of a local technical college. On the side, I teaches online English classes, play music, and tinker with websites. There are a few more details in the in the life section.
about the toolkit
The ones and zeros of wheatdesign.com are lovingly spiced together with Notepad++, and Nano. Dynamic elements are included via the magic of the PHP scripting language, the MySQL relational database management system, and wB 1.0 (an open source blog management system I and my merry band of elves created for our own fiendish purposes). My development box runs Windows XP, which I have made somewhat more palitable with open source tools like Cygwin, FireFox, and FileZilla. The version you're looking at right now is hosted on Linux machines at dreamhost.com and served up to you via Apache. The current design owes a great debt to Josh at hinkybox.com.
The ones and zeros of wheatdesign.com are lovingly spiced together with Notepad++, and Nano. Dynamic elements are included via the magic of the PHP scripting language, the MySQL relational database management system, and wB 1.0 (an open source blog management system I and my merry band of elves created for our own fiendish purposes). My development box runs Windows XP, which I have made somewhat more palitable with open source tools like Cygwin, FireFox, and FileZilla. The version you're looking at right now is hosted on Linux machines at dreamhost.com and served up to you via Apache. The current design owes a great debt to Josh at hinkybox.com.
about two things called wheatblog
wheatblog, my online blog/journal/whatever-you-want-to-call-it has been online since July 13, 2000. When it began, I used blogger to maintain it, but then I decided to create my own blogging software. I started an open source project in 2001 (which, for lack of a better name, I also called "wheatblog"). The first release wasn't much to look at, but subsequent versions expanded features and found an audience. Now the project has two dedicated developers, including yours truly, and it's coming into its own. To avoid confusion, we now refer to the software as "wheatblog app" or, more simply, wB.
wheatblog, my online blog/journal/whatever-you-want-to-call-it has been online since July 13, 2000. When it began, I used blogger to maintain it, but then I decided to create my own blogging software. I started an open source project in 2001 (which, for lack of a better name, I also called "wheatblog"). The first release wasn't much to look at, but subsequent versions expanded features and found an audience. Now the project has two dedicated developers, including yours truly, and it's coming into its own. To avoid confusion, we now refer to the software as "wheatblog app" or, more simply, wB.