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		<title>pluggin&#8217; away&#8230; the days are &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/11/pluggin-away-the-days-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pluggin&#8217; away&#8230; the days are short.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>pluggin&#8217; away&#8230; the days are short.</p>
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		<title>Twitter for iPad makes twitter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/10/twitter-for-ipad-makes-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter for iPad makes twitter awesome; despite some bugs, it&#8217;s one of my favorite iPad apps]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter for iPad makes twitter awesome; despite some bugs, it&#8217;s one of my favorite  iPad apps</p>
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		<title>This is gonna be big — it&#8217;s so small.</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/08/xkcd-title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess this qualifies as an open source project — pick any license you want. Behold the code to make the xkcd &#60;img title&#62; readable on a touch screen webkit browser. I call it &#60;xkcd title&#62;. Code: var x=document.getElementsByClassName('s'); x=x[2].getElementsByTagName('img'); alert(x[0].getAttribute('title')); //by:VACUBOMB.COM HOWTO Open &#038; bookmark http://ncrn.gs/c7dQSV on your mobile webkit browser (iPhone/iPad/Android/WebOS/etc). Rename the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess this qualifies as an open source project — pick any license you want. Behold the code to make the xkcd &lt;img title&gt; readable on a touch screen webkit browser.</p>
<p>I call it &lt;xkcd title&gt;.</p>
<p><strong>Code:</strong><code><br />
var x=document.getElementsByClassName('s');<br />
x=x[2].getElementsByTagName('img');<br />
alert(x[0].getAttribute('title'));<br />
//by:VACUBOMB.COM<br />
</code></p>
<p><strong>HOWTO</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Open &#038; bookmark http://ncrn.gs/c7dQSV on your mobile webkit browser (iPhone/iPad/Android/WebOS/etc).</li>
<li>Rename the bookmarklet to &#8220;&lt;xkcd title&gt;&#8221; or whatever you want. </li>
<li>Edit the bookmarklet address and remove everything before &#8220;javascript:&#8221;</li>
<li>Open any comic on XKCD and then open the bookmarklet, magic!</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Screenshots</strong><br />
<a href="http://vacubomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/iPad_xkcd.png"><img src="http://vacubomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/iPad_xkcd.png" alt="" title="Yeah. It&#039;s sweet." width="440" /></a><br />
<a href="http://vacubomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/iPhone_xkcd.png"><img src="http://vacubomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/iPhone_xkcd.png" alt="iPhone Sample" title="Pretty fuckin&#039; sweet isn&#039;t it?" width="440" /></a></p>
<p>Made with love by VACUBOMB.</p>
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		<title>P.S. I love you.</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/07/ps-i-love-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would love sing the praises of my latest project, but it seems that I do not have to; Mark Shieh, of the @rivermrkt, took care of all the singing for me. I&#8217;ll touch on the technical aspects after I let the choir resound in a letter written to the New Westminster Leader. P.S. (Post [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would love sing the praises of my latest project, but it seems that I do not have to; Mark Shieh, of the @rivermrkt, took care of all the singing for me. I&#8217;ll touch on the technical aspects after I let the choir resound in a letter written to the New Westminster Leader.</p>
<blockquote><p>P.S. (Post Script) grew from conversations between Briana* and I about interactive ways to contribute to New Westminster.</p>
<p>We wanted to nurture more poetic cities. It&#8217;s about seeing extraordinary beauty in our everyday lives. In this way, we are all poets. Briana and I thought tweet-sized poems might be a fun way to share our stories and experiences as friends and neighbours.</p>
<p>We engaged Melissa LaRivière** to create the web design and Wes Koopmans*** to develop the code and database programming. psnewest.ca has some sweet innovative features: a horizontal scroll that mimics the act of writing from left to right, a starring system that enables people to vote for their favourite P.S. poems, and every poem is also simultaneously tweeted on twitter.com/psnewwest</p>
<p>P.S. is social media, both online and offline. It&#8217;s about sparking conversations between friends and neighbours in more playful ways. We will refresh the poetry contest every season. For this first P.S. Contest, we are inviting people to contribute a poem about summer in 80 characters or less. The grand-prize winning poem will be featured on River Market in a grand way. The poet with the most-starred poem will receive a special edition River Market iPad.</p>
<p>P.S. is part of River Market&#8217;s grander Arts program. River Market Arts includes a community artist in residence program as well as public art works being commissioned for site-specific installations in and around the Market.</p>
<p>www.psnewwest.ca<br />
www.twitter.com/psnewwest</p>
<p>P.S.<br />
*Tenth to the Fraser: www.tenthtothefraser.ca<br />
**Melissa&#8217;s Website: www.melissalariviere.com<br />
***Wes is also a New Westminster resident. Our city has amazing technology and new media talent!</p></blockquote>
<p>The front-end theme was coded based on a design by Melissa LaRivière. I believe this was Melissa&#8217;s first go at designing a website, but she was great to work with; if you are looking for some creativity, check out her website at www.melissalariviere.com.</p>
<p>As far as my work was concerned, the site is hosted on WordPress 3.0. I suppose I could have used custom post types, but WP was still in RC when I started development. I went with PodsCMS to hold the data. I coded a Entry Moderation Panel Plugin with PodsUI in about 2 hours (PodsCMS is great for rapid development). The whole site was developed part-time over a 3 week period. Twitter tools takes care of bringing the poems to life on Twitter; poems are automatically tweeted when they are approved on the admin tool.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s not much else to say, there is no blog and only 3 pages. All of the other River Market duties are handled at www.rivermarket.ca.</p>
<p>Thank you Mark; thank you Melissa; I&#8217;m looking forward to more projects in the future.</p>
<p>P.S. I Love #NewWest.</p>
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		<title>Party like it&#8217;s 99% complete.</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/07/party-like-its-99-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vacubomb.com/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s pretty much done! Not too much left, I think I&#8217;ve nailed the navigation, thank heavens for Appearance &#62; Menu; there are some CSS tweaks that I need to do for widgets still so I can take out some content from the sidebar theme file and have it managed by WordPress; I still don&#8217;t have a good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s pretty much done! Not too much left, I think I&#8217;ve nailed the navigation, thank heavens for <strong>Appearance</strong> &gt; <strong>Menu</strong>; there are some CSS tweaks that I need to do for widgets still so I can take out some content from the sidebar theme file and have it managed by WordPress; I still don&#8217;t have a good gallery, and I&#8217;m scared to attach any images to a post because I don&#8217;t know how much it will break; but other than that&#8230; This is VACUBOMB; let me know what you think on twitter!</p>
<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll post some details on the <em>P.S. New West</em> site that I coded a couple weeks ago, including a letter from Mark Shieh with a bit of history behind the project.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s next? Magic.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s 91% complete.</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/07/91-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s close! Here&#8217;s my unordered todo list: attachments.php footer.php &#8211; Tweak the footer to include some sort of page menu. Currently the only other page is Pictures (holds my twitter pics) so I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s worth it. functions.php CSS for widgets (currently none enabled) I&#8217;m going to rewrite a huge chunk TweetPress (WP twitPic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s close! Here&#8217;s my unordered todo list:</p>
<ul>
<li>attachments.php</li>
<li>footer.php &#8211; Tweak the footer to include some sort of page menu. Currently the only other page is <a href="/pics/">Pictures</a> (holds my twitter pics) so I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s worth it.</li>
<li>functions.php</li>
<li>CSS for widgets (currently none enabled)</li>
<li>I&#8217;m going to rewrite a huge chunk TweetPress (WP twitPic clone) to support galleries instead of the mess it creates now.</li>
</ul>
<p>Pro-tip: This <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png" target="_blank">image</a> has actually saved the lives of those who have coded a WP template.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be launching this weekend.</p>
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		<title>Transparency.</title>
		<link>http://vacubomb.com/2010/06/transparency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>weskoop</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vacubomb.com/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have absolutely nothing to hide at this point&#8230; My live site at www.vacubomb.com is a half working mess. I decided I would develop it live, without a dev site, so that I would have some drive to get it done. I&#8217;ll be sitting on my ass for the next 4 days hammering out the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have absolutely nothing to hide at this point&#8230; My live site at www.vacubomb.com is a half working mess.</p>
<p>I decided I would develop it live, without a dev site, so that I would have some drive to get it done. I&#8217;ll be sitting on my ass for the next 4 days hammering out the new template.</p>
<p>I started with TwentyTen (what a crazy complicated mess) and moved everything into a &#8220;2010&#8243; sub-folder, except the style.css and index.php. I dropped in my HTML template that I&#8217;ve been building on and off for the past 2 months, and started copying and pasting. So far, I&#8217;ve got the following files moved back for editing&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>footer.php</li>
<li>functions.php</li>
<li>header.php</li>
<li>home.php</li>
<li>index.php</li>
<li>loop-home.php</li>
<li>style.css</li>
</ul>
<p>I still have 18 files to dick around with. ugh.</p>
<p>One thing you&#8217;ll notice is that there are no comments enabled; they are disabled on purpose, I&#8217;ll be carrying the conversation on twitter. This way you&#8217;ll be responsible for your comments.</p>
<p>PS. I haven&#8217;t changed my site in over 8 years! My previous design is dated 2002!</p>
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