Bloggeratto

Once Again



Another year closing for the new times to come, and of those new times i have been thinking around lately not in a over optimistic way but in a patient way, because i truly want to make the best of them as possible.

That is pretty much the wish i leave on you all too, that you can simply live without too many tribulations thriving onwards in the path constructed from the dreams of the old year we leave.

As always,i give thanks for being, now lets just see what the future awaits for me and for you to live.



Feliz Año Nuevo A todos

This has been a weird year, the weirdest year i had for sure, but it is always nice to celebrate Navidad, so i wish that all of you pass a good Xmas , as  good as it can get.

I will leave with some images i snatched from the web that let you see the ice skate rig Mexico city government installed in the historic center of the city.

not much to say n the blog status beyond what the title implies.

in the meantime, i place a little poll at the sidebar, so if you got one second to lose, please vote on it.

now for some notes:

*i want to give thanks to the comments that believe it or not even almost a year after still appear in the top ten posts and a weekly e-mail i still receive, something i find incredible too. so thank you all.

*lots of changes in blogger in the last 3 months, some of the last so called true and through Bloggers has jumped ship to Wordpress because they found it easier and because they say it gives benefits, i have found that such a thing only applies to less thant 10% of cases. and on the added benefits, now that Google said that Blogs will be added to the universal index by default i doubt the benefits will be that good when compared to Blogger. and then there is the Blogger upgrades and new features being pushed by Google at long last, something expected because Blogger along picasa are always the most relegated properties. but from what i know it seems blogger will get relevant again in 2008.so lets see.

*people from the Bleet are now back in the game, from phydeaux3,to stephen and of course my friend and now not so kiddo Aditya "busy college man" Mukherjee. so why not me returning when things are finally getting interesting again?.

but when i say back in the game, i refer to Blogger based blogs, since i have been blogging most of 2007 with the last example being Widgets lab along Derek Anderson.

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well, let see what the future awaits.

Every month since i closed Bloggeratto, i received a constant 100 e-mails for the archive, so i decided that i should let people see it while i prepare the new Bloggeratto.

IT will use Blogger, i am not taking the easy exit as other have done, i will continue with it, i will expand on it, it will be now a full bloggerosphere blog and depending on a deal i got in the pipeline, it may or may not include quite a lot of a different content with the known "all bout blogging" angle it always had.

Bloggeratto, Avatar-x, and another blog will most likely launch at the same time, i will not say a exact date because i have learned my lesson very well, i am sorry i had left, i should not have left Blogger frustrating terms from the version 3.0 could get into me. so i am doing it again, and this time i plan to stick around.

In the meantime, while you wait for this and my other projects. you can find me at http://widgetslab.com/ where i am also writing along other blogs you will know about when i gear up with all of this.

And also check me up in http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/-Avatar-/ where you can check up what is going live and when even before it happens.

Thanks for your attention.


-A

update: no,the title is not a grammar mistake, it is written in ZOMBIE style... sheesh

I just wanted to wish all of you a Muy Feliz Año Nuevo, full of prosperity.

I am looking forward to 2007 as a year of great new ventures and new paths to walk on.

Tomorrow i will move Bloggeratto to the new Blogger in Full form along with a new look (nothing drastic, just a "upgrade") that will thrive until the final look for Bloggeratto fisrt anniversary.

Thank you all.

I was shocked by Ramani New NEO template and i was truly lucky to be at the time he unveiled it. the very second it was posted to be seen.

It is the FIRST Completely reworked and truly hacked template that uses the New Blogger engine and that is outlined by JSON and that works in a true Asynchronic form.

Some of the people i asked about the template tought that it was not as innovative as i was telling it was, they of course don´t have a clue how much work has to be put into it, and needs to be put into it to maintain it working flawlessly.



Now, it also marks a another first, because it is the first Ramani work in Blogger that you cannot get for free, that is true, but is also Ramani biggest work to date, and he is not offering just the code for a 10 dlls fee, you will get:

*Full installation of the template
*Support
*Previous Template Add-ons ported to your new Template
*Upgrades
*New Features adjusted for the template.

So, considering what you get i think it is a great deal.

If you are interested in it, just go to this post:

Neo - The lightning fast blogger beta template

The first completed came to be by pure extension of what had originated the idea, and that was the original Native Search made by Aditya, so i can only guess that the minute aditya saw that i was asking for a new version, the minute he got into it because this was one of his most beloved hacks.

So, now you too can have this improved search in your blog,and the best of all is that is you got the H.P Blogger navbar or the navbar as it is, now you have two option to do your blog search, and that alone is worth it. in my case i like this search because it allows you to find the post you are looking way faster that making a regular search in the Blogger navbar, you get the search resultst in the same way you get them while searching google or live search without leaving your blog and without having to fiddle with the entire post reaload like the regular blog search built in the new Blogger.



this version has the added bonus of displaying the results in inputs of 10 at a time, and offering pagination depending on the number of results and changing from page to page in a very swift way.

You can test it in this blog search and if you like how it display, then go and grab the finished version at Aditya´s post.

Native Blog Search improved!

This development is part of the Ideas Post call i did to the Bleet and beyond, as a way for anyone brave enough to take on a challange had something to munch on.

And Stephen as the man how is the definition of what Bleet stands took upon on making Lightbox GW work for Blogger.

Now, what it is Lightbox GW and why is better than the regular lightbox script, and that is because they can contain media on them, just like MS has took them back and they are using them in Soapbox in the best way i have seen yet, or how you can see Digg also using them now for they video redistribution, all of that is done by Simi-Modal windows, why they are called like that and where does this comes from?

The short version of the story is that someone that were doing web developments for displaying in IE got to do what he denomined as Sub-Modal windows, windows that didn´t neede to open a new browser window, but that opened inside the already opened window, but that were not really a window, but more like a evolution of a prompt dialog and the objective was to save transitions and to mantain the concentration of the user.

But this is not truly Sub-modal on the technical terms, but on the look of things that is really something you would don´t know just from seeing it works, so it is is more of a simil, hence the simi pfrefix, it is also called semi or quasi, but i preferend simi.

This never catched up at the time it was created, but thanks to Lokesh that did Lightbox the guys at Particle Tree went with the idea and developed Lightbox GW based on it.

Now, this can be a GREAT feature if used well, and it really represents for me what the new web must be. so please take a look at it.

So, that is all the story, now you only need to go to Singpolyma post for the code and details.

I will be sporting it in Bloggeratto very soon and talking more about it.

Lightbox Gone Wild for Blogger

This is a great and very quick tip from Hoctro for when you need to paste code in your posts, and to allow anyone to lift it up from them without any effort.



Presenting Your Code to the Readers

As you may all know by now, Del.icio.us put up a new widget called the "tagometer", and if you haven´t read much about it, you can go and look at it.



Si, as usual when something like that happnes, Imp, got into a How Yo mode, and coooked up a tutorial for everyone to read if you are choosing to use this little widget.

Delicious Tagometer howto: manual mode customisation, code