Syakhir Jaafar

The new domain works! Now you guys just need to change any bookmark, feeds, link to this new domain. But don’t worry, I’ve made a redirect on the old url so everything the old site does wil be redirected here. Cool eh?

• New domain: http://syakh.ir
• New feed url: http://syakh.ir/feed

The migration process is awesome, only with some minor hinches here and there.  Also the new theme… Please bear with me changing the theme every now and then. As long as I’m happy right? There’s also the Google Friends Connect stuff over at the sidebar. It’s cool! Although still too new to have some better integration. Go on and use it! 

Slightly off-topic; I bought a webcam and headset with mic. Anyone wanna chat? Ahhahah. 

ps: Tell me what you think about the new domain name, theme and Friends Connect.

I bought syakh.ir. Now the migration! During this weekend I will attempt to migrate the url from k.shadowart.org to syakh.ir and hopefully nothing goes wrong. I’ve done this before, from “kay.cesb.net.my”(too many dots yeah?). Well last time I did it, It didn’t go smoothly. Post dates messed up, old blog completely down.

This time I will try to do it in even gracefully! let say, hitting k.shadowart.org/2008/11/post-title/ will automagically redirect you guys to syakh.ir/2008/11/post-title/. So my old url will still work, at least for a few months.

And then shadowart domain will be my testing spot. I’ve been testing out some e-commerce script, wiki, gallery script,  developing some friend’s project on this domain. I’ll just leave it at that.Ah if some of you need to host your assignment, sample project etc. Send me a mail, I might consider to host it for you. (subdomain hosting)

For the server thing, well… I’ve been having this cheap linux vps for myself. Without any sorts of control panel to manage. Just for me to play around and mess it up. The server never even host anything until now. So I might just reinstall the operating system and set up a stable hosting enviroment for the blog. Well, It depends entirely on wether I’m up to it or not.

Also the new Wordpress 2.7 is damn good! Go grab it! NAOOOOO

Just feel like it. Plus some of my friends are using similar theme from my last one. This is a nice theme, customized to fill my Jeanophile. The damn header takes 3 hours from me alone. Hang on for more customization. Muahahha

Just when I’m thinking of switching over to Drupal, WordPress 2.5 released. When I upgrade to 2.3, the whole world changes. Plugins start breaking, themes getting messed up. A lot of things have to be done to fix everything up. But 2.5 update is amazingly fast and simple, well some of my plugins break but still, I now have the power of 1 click update to easily keep up. The admin interface is very sexy and intuitive. But best of all, I don’t have to change or fix my theme, like when I did on 2.3

Some lovable features(for me at least):

• Batch image upload.
• Image Gallery built in.(I might dump my Gallery2 install)
• Exif extract.
• Better visual editor

I won’t remove my gallery section for now, or at least until the community release some awesome plugins for it. So for U guys who still stuck on Blogger, or any other hosted blog(except WordPress.com). You’ve missed the best part of blogging pal.

p/s: i wonder if they support Galleries on hosted WordPress.com

I’ve gotta stop upgrading and changing themes as frequent as this to avoid hysteria among my readers. Still, WordPress 2.3 is too hard to resist! >.< which also proves that I’m such a geek(correct me if I’m wrong). The best part about 2.3 is its tagging system. It will be a great function and will definitely break some themes and plugins. Thankfully WordPress 2.3 includes a sexy plugin update notifier to cover that up. How about themes guys?

The theme I’m using now is a my modified version Black Minimalism 2.0 by cinexl.net. The theme was originally built on K2 and optimized with Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin to deliver the tags. The best part is, it is Widget-Ready unlike any other version or variation of K2(K2 have their own widget-like function and i personally think its better that the Widget). Hacking the theme to work for WordPress 2.3 wasn’t that hard given their original support for tags. Read more…