DevPal

In case you haven’t noticed the sidebar ad for it on some of the other DevPal/Javamancy sites, you may have spotted it here, on Javamancy itself. It’s a text ad for Amazon.com’s limited-time offer on video games (well, it actually includes PC and Mac games, as well). We’re experimenting with some of our real estate, [...]

… And here ’tis, the seventeenth announced update to Javamancy the Weblog, Javamancy mini, and all of the other Web applications running at javamancy.com (that most of you don’t have to interact with, or even worry about!). The majority of the update is, of course, the WordPress 2.8.4 release, which finally cleared our QA testing and [...]

Black Friday!

November 28, 2008 at 12:01 AM · 1 comment

in Meanderings

I was so worried that I was not going to be able to rush out of the house and stand in all sorts of lines to buy… whatever it is that’s being sold. Like electronics, food, games, food, clothing, food, house improvement products, food, and food… But there was a massive flood of E-mails from [...]

Fun and Announcements in October

October 1, 2008 at 3:44 PM · 2 comments

in Operations

This month, we’ll be rolling out a few new features across Javamancy, as well as a few new surprises. Keep checking back in to see if you can spot ‘em! (To kick things off, check out the Javamancy comment system…)

“Steve, what are you doing with all those themes? Isn’t one enough?” Well, sometimes yes, and sometimes no. I’ve seen some pretty innovative (and sometimes merely pretty) blog themes floating around out there, and I was thinking that it really makes sense to “open up” some of the internal UI testing that Javamancy and other [...]

Trying out Context Links

June 5, 2008 at 2:20 AM · 1 comment

in Operations

The Setup A few days ago, I mentioned the notion of gradually introducing OPLs, so as to not overly shock you, Gentle Reader. Context linking is something that may be intriguing enough to try out, so let’s give it a shot here. The Premise Unlike the old-fashioned product links (e.g., the Classic Amazon Product Links), [...]

The Setup As I relax at the Alexandria Starbucks enjoying my coffee, lightly bantering with the baristas about various oddities of life, my thoughts sometimes slip over to the online aspects of this blog and wonder how to better relay all sorts of items that I’ve encountered or utilized in my journeys. Hmm… Well, how [...]