http://geek.pittcrew.org/categories/blog/ Recent content in Blog on PittGeek Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:28:01 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2007/09/back-online/ Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:28:01 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2007/09/back-online/ We’re finally back after some extended downtime. Obviously I don’t get around to updating the site very often, so I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I didn’t notice the problem right away. A big thanks to Jeffrey who emailed to inform me that ScribbishWP was unavailable. All of the static content on the site was accessible, but all of the WordPress-powered pages were down. It took technical support a week to track down and fix the problem, but as of last night everything seems to be working again. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/11/upgrade-to-wordpress-20/ Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:27:01 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/11/upgrade-to-wordpress-20/ I finally upgraded the blog to run on WordPress 2.0. I’ve been holding off on this for awhile because I just haven’t had the time to deal with it. I’m happy to report, though, that the upgrade went just as smoothly as the WordPress documentation claims. After backing up the database and files from the previous blog installation, I downloaded the ZIP file for WordPress 2.0.5, extracted the files to my local disk, and uploaded them to my host server with FileZilla. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/10/ie7-and-the-scribbishwp-sidebar/ Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:40:11 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/10/ie7-and-the-scribbishwp-sidebar/ After a lengthy beta cycle, Internet Explorer 7 has finally been released. Microsoft claims that IE7 has significantly better CSS compatibility than previous releases, so how does that impact the sidebar “bug” in ScribbishWP? You’ll be happy to know that IE7 does in fact fix the overflow problem that caused the sidebar to shift to the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, IE7 still puts the scrollbars inside the existing content space, but it’s a whole lot better than having to play games with specific elements in your content to prevent IE from barfing. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/07/scribbishwp-sidebar-bug-in-ie/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:03:43 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/07/scribbishwp-sidebar-bug-in-ie/ Some ScribbishWP users have reported problems with the sidebar in Internet Explorer. When the site is viewed in other browsers such as Firefox or Safari everything looks fine, but in IE the sidebar disappears to the bottom of the page below the content. The problem doesn’t occur on all ScribbishWP sites, so what causes the problem and what can you do about it? The Problem Surprise, surprise! The problem is actually a bug in the way Internet Explorer implements CSS. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/06/scribbish-theme-for-wordpress/ Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:07:17 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/06/scribbish-theme-for-wordpress/ UPDATE: ScribbishWP is now hosted on GitHub at kpitt/scribbishwp. You can find the original archive files there, or you can fork it and create your own version. Those who have visited this blog before will probably notice a change in appearance. I never cared much for the default WordPress theme, but I browsed through who knows how many alternate themes in the theme gallery and still didn’t find anything to my liking.