Thinking Differently About Software.

Today I went on a slight rant at work when I saw this article from computerworld.com titled Microsoft: Killing IE6 ‘not an option’. Now I like windows and all the neat stuff I can run on it, Incontinent Exploder 6 is not one of them in fact I’d go as far as to say I jolly well dislike it.

I tweeted a link to the story and to the ie no more campaign site I also changed my twitter avatar using the twibbon.com campaign for IE6-Must-Die.

And that brings me to my point in the WordPress theme I’m working on for this site I’ll be adding a few ie6 specific additions, there will be a banner warning you that you’re using an outdated browser, and the comments will be locked out to anyone using the offencive beast.

That’ll learn’me…

What do you think, let me know in the comments.

OK I was looking for a plugin for my other site that would work like the social-network-bookmarking-thing-a-me-bob I have at the end of each post. except for the rather lovely GameDevKicks.com, Casey Young as keyed one by the imaginative name of “GameDevKicks Kick It Plugin“.

Unfortunately it didn’t work so can’t use it. But it did get me to thinking that I could probably do my own, seeing as how i used to be quite good at that there PHP stuff. So to get me started I thought I’d tweak one of the plugins I’m already using.

Enter “WP-Memory-Usage” written by Alex Rabe for checking the total memory being used by his WordPress install it’s a great plugin and all I wanted to do was tweak the colour for the usage bar on the Dashboard it only took me about an hour, and that was only because I wanted to read and understand what it was doing, WordPress has a pretty cool framework. I’m hoping to start working on the GDK plugin tomorrow, after I finish the fonts tutorial :-/.