A new addition to the Space Babies stable today: Tour Top 100. This is a list of 100 Tour de France-related songs. You’ll see classics from Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour.
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Radiolab: experimental radio
This week I launched radiolab.nl: a website about experimental Dutch radio. Radiolab is a series of new formats on Radio 1, allowing the makers to test the waters and play with new ideas.
Expedition Chemistry
This month I finalized the construction of Expedition Chemistry: a website for children with a lot of (chemical) experiments.
Since it’s a Dutch website, here’s the description in Dutch:
Op deze website vind je heel veel verschillende proefjes! Bijvoorbeeld: Hoe je een ei doorzichtig kan maken, hoe je de beste bellenblaas maakt, of je hoe een fontein maakt met mentos en cola. De proeven doe je met materialen die je thuis al hebt of koopt bij de supermarkt of drogist.
WordPress: exclude child categories
Sometimes the simplest things can take hours to discover. This is especially true for WordPress, whose documentation can be atrocious. I wanted to exclude all child category posts from a category page.
WordPress 3
I am not only an Apple fanboi, and a Rails fanboi, but also a WordPress fanboi. Version 3.0 came out recently and I am very excited. WordPress has merged with WordPress Multi-User and the result is something amazing; you can run one blog just as easily as one thousand. Or ten million. Wow. The new theme is great too, looks like I will be able to use it instead of a customized one.
SQL query logging in WordPress
After doing Rails development for so long, it’s ….. interesting to develop for other platforms once in a while. I am talking about WPMU, a pretty fantastic multi-blog platform. The lack of documentation is aggravating though, as is the absence of all my Rails tools like the console and the log. Well turns out you can have a sql log for WordPress as well! This post tells you how, and it works.
Fysiodeurloo restyle live
Tis the time of year for lotsa restyled websites! Yes, I have been keeping busy. My aunt’s physical therapy shop Fysiodeurloo is the first to kick off this year’s round of fresh new websites. It’s a pretty standard WordPress-as-a-CMS website, but does its job very well and is a huge step up from the previous website. If you have aching bones and live in Tholen, go there!
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PHP massive security FAIL
A security vulnerability was discovered in WordPress 2.8.3 recently. If you look at the flaw in question, I can’t believe people are still using PHP to publish websites. If you still do, you should be beaten with a stick. Let’s gloat about why Ruby (on Rails) is better, point by point.
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Friendly Alien Space Takeover
I couldn’t help but notice this podcast of Future Vintage, a show on Radio 6. With titles like Space Invasion, Sirius Space Party, Interstellar Low Ways, When Planets Explode, Tales from Outerspace and Distant Planet you can’t go wrong! Download the MP3 now!
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New design, whoopty doo
What better way to inaugurate WordPress 2.6 than with a new template? This one is quite nice, not as emo as the last one. More, uh, “professional”. ‘Coz we are, like, extreme “professional” here at Space Babies HQ, m’kay?