Wordpress 2.7
I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.7 and I must say, it’s definitely getting better with every release. Unfortunately, like most upgrades, there are always a couple of things that go a little sideways or need further tweaking after an upgrade like this. So far I’ve managed to get the main functionality of the site back in order, and the few modifications to the default theme’s style sheet have been added. Oddly the theme seems to default to a smaller font size now, however. I intend to correct the issue shortly, but it makes me wonder. Why are the WordPress guys even using such small font sizes out-of-the-box anyway, when so much of the blogging world these days realize how inappropriate they are!?
Beyond this there isn’t a lot to say right now. The Fire Programming Language is slowly getting under way, with the first complete draft of the syntax chapter completed and part of the corresponding parser implemented. For those interested the git repositories are hosted on github as FireLang and Fire respectively. Keep in mind however, the code base is not designed to actually run yet, and neither is the aforementioned syntax chapter necessarily readable yet—the style is still somewhat inconsistent. Oh, before I forget, the spec is currently written in Emacs’ Org mode (using longlines-mode), but it should still be perfectly viewable in any other text editor.
– Lorenz