byCycle.org » Site http://info.bycycle.org Get There by Cycle! Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:28:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 WordPress CMS http://info.bycycle.org/2007/01/25/wordpress-cms/ http://info.bycycle.org/2007/01/25/wordpress-cms/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:26:19 +0000 Wyatt http://bycycle.org/2007/01/25/wordpress-cms/ Continue reading →]]> Previously, we were using a hacked together “content management system” (CMS) to maintain this site. We had integrated WordPress for blogging, but all the pages were stored in separate files. Keeping things updated was a pain in the ass.

In order to simplify things, we wanted to move the whole site and blog into a unified CMS. We tried Mephisto, and it’s pretty nice, but we didn’t want to be tied to using Ruby on Rails, which Mephisto is built on.

We can run WordPress almost anywhere, easily, and inexpensively. There’s also a ton of info for hacking WordPress on the Web. PHP is pretty weak compared to Python or Ruby, but that doesn’t really matter for this purpose.

The theme for the site is being developed by Wyatt and is available for download via Subversion (you might need to log in with username:password guest:guest):

svn co http://svn.bycycle.org/bycycle.org/wordpress/themes/byCycle/trunk byCycle

We may have introduced some broken links or other problems during this change. If you notice anything, please let us know.

]]> http://info.bycycle.org/2007/01/25/wordpress-cms/feed/ 0 Problems with the Trip Planner in the Last Day or So http://info.bycycle.org/2006/10/26/problems-with-the-trip-planner-in-the-last-day-or-so/ http://info.bycycle.org/2006/10/26/problems-with-the-trip-planner-in-the-last-day-or-so/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:40:12 +0000 Wyatt http://bycycle.org/blog/2006/10/26/problems-with-the-trip-planner-in-the-last-day-or-so/ Continue reading →]]> Our hosting provider moved all our files to a new server–without letting us know before hand that they were going to do so. Most things kept working. A few did not, as you may have noticed.

The reason some things stopped working is, the new server is running a newer version of the operating system and some of the software the trip planner depends on[1] had to be recompiled [reinstalled from source code].

Though I think the upgrade is a good thing overall, I hope they let us know about it before they do it next time!

[1] The MySQL bindings for Python, in case you really wanted to know. I also updated Python from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4, but I don’t know if that was strictly necessary.

]]> http://info.bycycle.org/2006/10/26/problems-with-the-trip-planner-in-the-last-day-or-so/feed/ 0 WordPress Upgrade and K2 http://info.bycycle.org/2006/08/13/wordpress-upgrade-and-k2/ http://info.bycycle.org/2006/08/13/wordpress-upgrade-and-k2/#comments Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:36:56 +0000 Wyatt http://bycycle.org/blog/2006/08/13/wordpress-upgrade-and-k2/ Continue reading →]]> Today we upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4. It’s a security release. Upgrading is easy: just copy the new directory over the old (being careful to save any customizations first, although if you created new directories for your custom themes, you won’t have to do anything).

We also moved from the old default theme, Kubrick, to a new version of it called K2. This version makes a lot of things easier, and it looks better out of the box. One day we might customize it.

]]> http://info.bycycle.org/2006/08/13/wordpress-upgrade-and-k2/feed/ 0 Blog Announcement http://info.bycycle.org/2006/08/07/blog-announcement/ http://info.bycycle.org/2006/08/07/blog-announcement/#comments Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:17:47 +0000 Wyatt http://bycycle.org/blog/2006/08/07/blog-announcement/ Continue reading →]]> We went and got ourselves a blog. Some things that we might have sent here [the announcements list] will be posted there instead. We’ll now reserve this list for major announcements. The blog will include the announcements plus other odds and ends–whatever seems at least somewhat relevant and half way interesting.

The blog is located at http://byCycle.org/. Our home page also shows selected items posted to the blog (ones tagged as news).