Category Archives: WordPress

Administrative carping, aka progress

Posted on 2021/09/27 by gongmaster

Just venting a little frustration over the cPanel migration and MediaWiki in general. Continue reading →

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To the Neoteric diaspora

Posted on 2012/05/19 by gongmaster

Naturally, the web already has a “Diaspora Project.” But so shall dekalborama. And now I sense a digression coming on…. Redundancy is, after all, the new herald of popularity. Come to think of it, it was also the old one. … Continue reading →

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Firing Stage 2

Posted on 2012/04/15 by gongmaster

Well, it’s probably clear by now I’m not much of a blogger: it’s been almost three months since my last post on this site. Yet dekalborama.com has pretty much consumed my spare time in those months—not complaining, just stating the … Continue reading →

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Raising the barn

Posted on 2012/01/18 by gongmaster

This post shares its title with the current task list over at dekalbowiki. My last two weeks have been largely devoted to the heavy lifting of whacking the MediaWiki installation into place, reimplementing the WordPress look and feel, and starting … Continue reading →

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Ice fishing

Posted on 2012/01/06 by gongmaster

It’s been quite a week here for re-creation: that is, I am relearning the lessons of getting wikigong.com launched, reconfigured, and launched again, as I apply them to dekalborama.com. Now that we’re in that site’s third trimester, it seemed a … Continue reading →

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Hello world! (reprise)

Posted on 2011/07/07 by joepenz

We (re)moved the site in late June for a number of wholly pedestrian reasons. Here we are again!

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Branching out

Posted on 2011/05/08 by gongmaster

…in which we start a whole new venture with a friend, applying lessons learned. Harking back to a decade spent—formatively—beyond the fringes of Chicago, we embarked this week on our second site-building romp with friend and mentor Joseph Pinzarrone: dekalborama.com … Continue reading →

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