New theme
I can’t wait to snap the new theme on. It’s still crufty (Front page view, Single page view), but I love the way it is coming through, especially the back-end code bit. I’ll probably unveil it once I am satisfied completely with the code reworking. It’s still simple, hardly any dependence on any theme plugin. But no widgets yet.
Eagerly awaiting your theme. Just saw a message of your feed moving on my reader and thought telling about a plugin that redirects all feed access to Feedburner URL, you may already know. I wrote about it here.
Feb 20, 07 at 13:43Thanks for letting me know that it is working
. It is actually that I am moving away from FeedBurner’s services 
. (The message is courtesy FeedBurner.)
Thanks again for the heads-up. I was using this plugin (a very nice one, btw, as you have discovered). Except, it has one major flaw: Once you start redirecting everything to FeedBurner via the plugin, if I am not mistaken, you really cannot segregate category feeds (please see notes in my archives section for such a thing).
If you really want the freedom of your categories (in feed as well), then either you create a separate Feedburner URL for each category (I have over 50!), or just stop using FeedBurner redirect.
I just didn’t want to lose my freedom of categories even in feed.
Feb 20, 07 at 14:09Having freedom of choosing the categories which matter to you is imp, I do not like widgets of any kind, one can do backend processing to see the usage/search queries hitting you/linkbacks etc. Just keep it clean and no work - lazy that I am.
Feb 21, 07 at 05:23Looks cool… A variant of plain vanilla?
Feb 21, 07 at 06:05Chetan, I am curious. How do you test themes offline before moving them online. Do you have a complete offline set-up with the database etc. Or is there some other software you use to do this?
Feb 21, 07 at 07:42Actually, they are not a javascript snap-ons, if you are thinking like that. They are actually server-side code snippets calling the db, but just tailor-made for end-users to drag them into position, at previously defined locations in the theme.
Again, this is only useful if the author plans to release the theme to the public. If you maintain your own code, then each piece of code that does something, calls the database to display something is a widget in itself. Anyway, I’m not releasing my theme for general public, so widgets is a low priority.
No, a completely new one. No comparison whatsoever.
Yes, I do.
Feb 21, 07 at 10:11Btw check out http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~dellaert/ for way he is thinking about cities and interpretation of location data and integration with map data. He has interesting way of constructing 3d image from set of images (4d Cities).
Feb 22, 07 at 06:41I know you might not like his flashy navigation, but for me to see a prof giving so much time to his look & feel brought your devotion to themes and look. The color schemer of the container (yellow/orange) is garish, but rest is neat?
Govind, he’s using the Tiddlywiki
. Not his design. He’s just using some javascript (I think) to enlarge his images. It’s really not dynamic, from what I can see.
Feb 22, 07 at 17:28Ahh
But still deserves good marks for cleaning up the page for easy access. Btw do check out his work on the 4d cities. That was another link about projection (vanishing point discussion you gave still rings in) which I could not make head or tail out of. So gave up and thought spoil your weekend by referring you there 
Feb 23, 07 at 09:464d cities is a good effort. But, if they aren’t using laser scanning (I don’t see any reference), then they’re really scratching at the bottom of the hill. I’ve actually seen laser mapping and it works amazingly well and accurate enough to map our real worlds in to 3D. Here’s more food for thought.
Feb 23, 07 at 10:11