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About 1 Month, 3 Days, 20 Hours, 42 Minutes ago.
This is the obligatory welcome post when setting up a new site, odd as this isn't a new site.. well erm .. let me explain. Somewhere out there one of you will have visited this site before and notice things have changed. I decided that as I am working with the Codeigniter php framework I'd try out the excellent PyroCMS which is built on Codeigniter and looks to be a very promising CMS system. I mean why re-invent the wheel right? The idea is also that somewhere in the distant future I may find time to write an addon or two for Pyro. This of course assumes that a brilliant scientist somewhere discovers more hours in the day and lets me into the early extra hour granting beta test.
I think this is incarnation 3 as far as full rewrites of irealms.co.uk go, though as there have been a fair amount of tweaking and theming in the past I'm calling this irealms n.0 (otherwise know as the "I can't remember the version version"). Read on for more ramblings.
I've decided to go with a fresh start and not move my old posts over from the old Wordpress setup. The old posts are mostly my ramblings about random topics which are not really worth moving over, granted future posts are likely to be much the same buy hey.
As it's my personal blog the posts could range from coding topics, to musical musings and thoughts on life in general. I do write at a gaming blog so most of my gaming thoughts should be kept over there but one or two may leak through here. I can see all you developer types shaking your collective heads at me and saying "you should be coding not gaming". Well I have a job a family and sometimes I need to unwind when I get home on something other than code. I may even write the odd football related post, now that has you running for the hills, right?
For those that are wondering why irealms, well it's an odd one I suppose. Way back when I decided to have my own site I thought it would be a personal site with links off to others sites I worked on or ran. That and my interest in fantasy books led me to the word realms. As for the I? Well I'm not really sure, it could be interactive; internet; or other random word beginning with I that fits. Remember I was new to the whole website thing having picked up some html as my first venture into web technologies while at uni so the whole thing was shiny and new to me. I had moved onto an I.T degree having started out doing Electronic Engineering, those engineers can be funny types. I've often thought I should get a new domain with my name involved though I've had this domain for years now and my personal email accounts also carry the URL. So here I am years later using the same domain that doesn't link to my name and confuses people. Nothing wrong with a bit of confusion, it sparks questions and discussion after all.
As I'm no designer rather than subject you all to my design efforts I've gone with Scott Parry's Base theme for PyroCMS. It's nice and clean and handles all resolutions the multitude of modern devices can throw at it, so thanks Scott and to the rest of you enjoy.
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