Tagged under ‘habari’

As you may have noticed, Flow of Logic is now wearing a new theme, which I call Winter Scenic.

This has been a rather stressful few hours, as I had forgotten that it’s Christmas Eve and I hadn’t finished my Winter Themed Design Project!...

I’m working on a Winter Themed Design right now. It’s far from finished, but it’s looking good so far. I plan on releasing this as a Habari theme and probably a WordPress theme. I’m having some problems with the cool trees effect in IE.

Please leave any kritiks, suggestions, insults, etc....

Lateral Code is a collaborative work (running Wordpress) between myself and Karthik Viswanathan. We’re sort of trying to decide what direction to take with it, so we’re just plodding along for now.

I must say, after a few weeks hacking at Habari, I have grown unused to working with Wordpress, I feel quite disgusted by how many files and functions I have to search through just to hack one part.

So it’s been a week since I installed Habari (my installation tells me 8 days? okay) and here are my thoughts so far.

Pros

It’s light

Habari’s base install comes out to be about 2.5mb compared to 4.5mb for WordPress and 15mb for Movable Type.

It’s database independent

As mentioned a a previous post, I can’t really afford MySQL, so Habari is perfect because it supports SQLite.

It has a simple but aesthetically pleasing backend

Controls are done through a JavaScript dropdown menu that can be accessed using keyboard shortcuts.

The code is readable

One of the things I love doing when I get something is to tear it to shreds and see what’s inside. I love how easy to read Habari’s code is, meaning I can hack it that much faster or easily. I even learn new PHP techniques from reading the code. When I look at WordPress’ (monstrous) code I actually have to, well, decode it before I can understand it.

Hello! Finally rebooted this thing…

So, as a poor non-working high school student, I don’t have much money, so I use NearlyFreeSpeech. Even though it’s ‘nearly free’, I can’t really afford mySQL through NFS, which is a requirement for WordPress, so now I’m running Habari using SQLite for a database....