CodeSushi

Some technical wishes for Roller… I wish there were a generic way to pass values provided through the admin UI to the themes. For instance, analytics, adsense and google reader stuff.. I could then make this theme available to others with all those features ready to go out of the box. Not that this theme is particularly good.. but I think there are some cool technical aspects to it that could make life easier for people less technically inclined…



I wish I didn't have to restart Roller to apply theme changes. It seems like there should be at least an option to use the theme resources directly. Maybe that's just me wanting Roller to be a content management system when it's not.

I wish I had time to dig into the Roller source code.

All in all, I like it.. it's a cool system that's relatively easy to maintain and I have full control.

I've been working on this theme a little..

I added a tag cloud on the right and a list of old posts. I'll try to tag each post pretty well so that maintains good utility.

Each post now has a few social bookmarking links under it. You most likely know what they are, and if you don't, they probably won't make your life any better. Leave a comment if there's some service you really like.

I have also added a widget from my RSS reader. I'm subscribed to dozens of RSS feeds from a pretty wide variety of topics. Any I flag as “shared” will appear in that box on the right. I don't flag very many… but I think they're usually pretty good

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I got a new domain… now I'm putting up a Roller based blog. It's been pretty fun to set up and has quite a few extension points if I want to integrate it with future development I do. I created this simple theme by stealing from several of the included themes and the sotto theme which I can't seem to find a link to…

I'm using Disqus for my comments. I don't really like the look of the comment system built into Roller and Disqus provides a richer feature set and is under very active development.

I'll be evolving the design and features of this site over the next weeks.. I've got a few more projects to add in addition to CastCluster and RonPaulGraphs which are also linked in the navigation.

I am first and foremost a software developer, but over the last year I have become a bit of a political advocate, federally and locally. I'm a podcast junkie and I like to collect books I'll never read. I've done some video editing and “acting”. I hope to catalog a bit about all of my interests and activities for my future reference and occasionally someone else's… at least until I get bored with it or blogging becomes as lame as MySpace and I have to stop from pure embarrassment.

You'll find the RSS and Atom links in the usual places.. but if you need a hint, check the right hand navigation at the top.

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