Ah, the Internal Error. Mr HTTP 500. Something every developers hates to see in their inbox on a Saturday morning. I’ve been noticing a problem with how internal errors are presented recently. I like to call it the “Doctor, I don’t feel good problem”. Doctor, I don’t feel good problem Patient: “Doctor, I don’t feel …
Jarrod (a 30×500 member) just launched his ebook, Bootstrapping Design. I had the privilege to read his early drafts and I highly recommend it for developers and product builders. Bootstrapping Design was written at the perfect time for me. One of the guiding principles I’m building into Chirk HR is that software should be easy …
When I last wrote about Redmine themes I showed how to customize the basic styles by overriding the CSS. Basic themes also support a few other features in addition to CSS. Images Most themes will use images as part of the design. This is pretty easy to do because the entire theme is located in …
One of the first things people do to customize their Redmine or ChiliProject is to install a theme. Redmine has supported custom themes since version 0.6.0 (October 2007). In my opinion a custom Redmine theme can really make your site stand out and also make Redmine much more usable than the default theme. But first, …
I spent most of the morning working on the theme for ChiliProject 3.0.0. I was able to convert the Shane and Peter theme to an actual CSS theme and started working on the default theme for ChiliProject. This is still very rough; I’m not good at color choices and I was trying to make sure …