Welcome to my portfolio, thanks for visiting. I'm Sarah Vessels, a programmer and web developer in Lexington, Kentucky. My favorite languages are Ruby, C#, Java, and CSS.
I’ve created a new theme for this site — a WordPress Child Theme based on the Twenty Eleven theme. The sketch in the header is something I created in Paper on my iPad, which is a really fun little app. The text ‘portfolio’ is my own handwriting, while my name is written in the Sharpie font by Gerren Lamson, which I got from Creative Market.
I had the idea earlier of displaying a pie chart of my blog’s categories, but didn’t see any WordPress plugins out there to do that. “Well, fine, I’ll write my own!” I thought — so I did. I submitted it for review to be listed on the WordPress plugins site but while it’s under review, you can download it from my Github page.
Recently at work I was tasked with creating a customized Portal theme based on the new 7.0.0.2 theme, which uses Dojo 1.6 and thus supports IE9. I followed all of IBM’s steps for making a copy of the 7.0.0.2 theme’s static files (the non-JSP stuff that you can access via WebDAV), but still my custom 7.0.0.2 wouldn’t load for me. I didn’t modify anything in my copy from the original except the metadata to change the theme name. When I would select my copy as a page’s theme or the Portal default theme, I would just get a white page with a snippet of XML up top, sometimes including an error message. When I checked the Portal logs, I saw error messages pertaining to PageBuilder2–what? PageBuilder2 is the old Portal theme, and the new 7.0.0.2 theme didn’t seem to mention PageBuilder2 anywhere. If you’re experiencing this, check out the tutorial on my blog.