Welcome to incoherence.net.
I am Allen, your humble host. My other occupation is that of a silicon valley software developer, spinning code out of ether for your desktop and your browser.
This site is something I maintain in my spare time, mostly to force myself to continuous write, but also to experiment with graphics and web design.
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You are looking at the fifth iteration of this site; the previous attempts were a mishmash of technologies and designs, reflective of my beginner attempts at writing a blog engine and creating an aethestically acceptable theme. I keep them around to remind myself how much, much worse this used to look.
June 2004 with Dreamweaver
Having just graduated from UC Berkeley and about to start my first real job, I figured I might as well keep a journal of my experiences. The lack of web design or web coding experience shows.
October 2004 with PHP
I got pretty sick of updating pages manually (some of the text links were, in fact, graphics), so I gave web scripting a try. This was before I discovered databases, but after I found a Photoshop tutorial on creating generic grey panels.
August 2005 with CSS, Javascript
Ever visit the same site and get annoyed by what looked like the end result of three different designers' work, none of them any good? v2 ended on that note, so I took a much simplier approach in design here. A redesigning of the PHP blogging engine also gave me a better idea how hard it was to build one.
May 2006 with MySQL, AJAX
How much easier it was to build a blog on top of an actual database instead of writing out to separate files! Having discovered the magic which power what we call Web 2.0 (that is, manipulating the page with Javascript without reloading it), I tinkered with it briefly; the results are admittedly pretty rough, but it served as a great exercise in web coding which I would put to use a year and a half later. I also kept this site for quite a long time, until...
September 2007 with Wordpress, Gallery2
Spam comments, even with my own custom blog engine, got out of hand. Writing and editing posts with a bare-bones editor I wrote for myself got aggrevating, especially when an hour's worth of writing disappeared with a "back" button. Having messed around with all the above technologies, I threw in the towel and went with a proven set of tools in Wordpress and Gallery2. Initial setup was easy; customization and integration remain as considerable hurdles.