In which I pretend I know what to do with code

[yati]

Does anyone (or do any of your friends) want invite codes to Dreamwidth? I have some extras. Thought I'd ask first before going over to dw_codesharing. :)


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Been poking the CSS for Core 2 Testing Tabula Rasa (whoops, it's been renamed) and now my journal is a blinding sort of blue. Not a very inspired design, is it. (My design, I mean. Not the style itself.) I'm good with structure and putting things into nice, sensible blocks and all that, but making things pretty isn't my forte.

Automated colour palettes! Seriously. That's what I need!


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Other stuff: playing around with code. Sifting though Dreamwidth's repository and suddenly finding myself thinking, "hey, maybe I should give this a spin!" Um. Yeah.

Things being concentrated at IRC makes it a bit difficult, though. Am I the only one terrified of IRC? It's ridiculous but true! Generally I just hang around and feel awkward, even when it's filled with people I know. I am sort of lurking in #dw and sometimes #dw_kindergarten. (Filled with people I don't know, so it's even more awkward. Social skills stat: -90!) I have yet to ask anything though.

(. . . Good grief another network timeout. This is getting embarrassing. I'll just stay out of IRC for now.)

Also poking documentation and the Wiki and looking at Perl notes and trolling through the bug list. Setting up my own development environment looks, um, not really doable (I can't believe I've been away from servers and crazy troubleshooting and version control and patch applying for more than two years. Old job, I miss you. Not.) It's been too long since I did something like this. So I applied for a Dreamhack account instead, and am puzzling through the repository and finding stuff and going "aha!" and probably will end up doing nothing but going "aha!" for a few days. Maybe.

Hmm.

Comments

[lassarina]

Hi :)

Re: invite codes, I know that ovo_lexa was looking for one; you might have known her through Nay?

[yati]

Hello!

I have seen her around, but we've never talked. This is a good reason as any to start. :)

[renay]

At least you can understand it somewhat. I just take layouts from other people. ;)

[yati]

Shiny > understanding! XD

[afuna]

I want more color themes for each layout *___________* we have yet to get to asking people to do so; I am hoping we can do that soon, because really!

If it helps any, the channel is active enough that no one really notices part/join messages, even repeated ones, unless there are like a dozen a minute.

#dw_kindergarten may be more comfortable to get into, since it's focused more on Getting Things Done, rather than socialization. (And if you have any questions, feel free to approach me or just shout out in channel. It's hard the first couple of times, but I promise we don't bite

unless you ask us to)

[yati]

Colour themes would be nice! I know some new users are put off because their journals don't look ~*pretty*~ and they can't customise stuff much using the wizard. (Still in open beta. BETA, says I, and they look at me blankly.)

I blame my ISP! If it doesn't bother anyone else, it still bothers me -- it gets very distracting!

I don't know how close I'll manage to get to Getting Things Done (where do you find the time?!?) but I'll definitely pester you guys with questions. Om nom nom?

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

I'd normally say no, but I remember regretting turning down the LJ code I was offered about a year before I signed up, so I'll take a code just to get in on the ground floor if you still have :)

Thanks!

[cyrnelle.livejournal.com]

Sent you one, have fun! ;)

[eastpath.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[yuvi.livejournal.com]

I would love to have a code if you still have one to spare ^_^

[cyrnelle.livejournal.com]

Sent it to your LJ email. See you there! :)

[yuvi.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! ^_^ I'm still as Yuvi over there.

[anchan218.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way - I'm intrigued by the code and feel like I want to do something sort of, but probably won't do it in the end, lol.

I've been puttering around with making my own style, but I don't have any inspiration for what it should look like at the moment. I just have this vague idea about playing around with modules since the way they're generated is pretty flexible in DW.