I’ve fixed the comments. Basically, it worked out to me not having completely moved enough bits into place for the new theme, so when things were missing, they’d default back to the most basic thing. The most basic thing, unfortunately, was a simple index page that didn’t include anything about comments.

Coda, from Panic, has really been a godsend in terms of allowing me to very easily put this theme together and hack on it. I’ve been especially thankful for the ability, as of 1.0.1, to use a local HTTP server for previewing, as that’s helped with some of the PHP issues. For something as complex as WordPress, though, I find that it’s just better to keep a separate Safari window around, as the preview for individual PHP files that make up the parts of WordPress don’t really lend themselves to being called directly via a URL.

Amusingly, Coda’s ability to use a local HTTP server is what prompted me to get the Apache Web Server included in Mac OS X running, and get it playing with PHP, and install MySQL “Community Server”, and get all those bits playing together. I figured, if I’m going to hack on the face of my blog, I might as well do it offline so that it actually works before I push it online. The result is that I have a fully-functional copy of Method running on my PowerBook which I can hack on to my heart’s content, safe from prying eyes for debugging and testing.

I think that’s pretty cool.

I think in a week or so I’ll put together a nice review of Coda based on what I’ve been able to do with it so far, just to wrap up my experiences and impressions with it. I’m very happy.

Coda 1.0.1 is available.

I’m looking forward to trying out the enhancements.

Also, Cabel from Panic got back to me on my expired demo problem, even though I wasn’t expecting a response. Color me impressed. (What color is "impressed", anyway?)

From Translation from PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Steve Jobs’ “A Greener Apple” Article:

Dear Greenpeace,

Fuck you.

Love,
Steve.

Amusingly, that was my interpretation of that section of Steve’s "A Greener Apple" letter, too.

It would appear that I’ve broken comments when I re-themed the site. So, still a few kinks to work out in the theme. Old comments are still there, honest, but until I fix the theme, they just won’t show up, and nobody will be able to add new ones.

Whoops.