July 2008
46 posts
Twitter Versus Plurk: The UI Advantage →
So Plurk is better than Twitter and everybody knows it, but what good is it if it can’t comply with an open microblogging api? No one will ever actually use Plurk to see how much better it really is.
Create Your Own Free SMS Campaign With Tagga →
This is pretty cool. Although not live yet here in the U.S. on all carriers, there is a great sense of turnkey sms-ness to this website that I love.
Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS →
From neonarcade:
I’m building out some Wordpress MU stuf as we speak, so this should come in handy if you’ve been thinking about it like me.
The Economics of Testing Ugly Code →
This is a great page about the value of your code when your code looks terrible, definitely a great read.
RegexPal - Regex Tester →
From (via byteengine)
Thank god this is a thing.
YC is a cult — Some French Guy →
I can attest to these types of working conditions. Going full bore for too long will turn your productivity into a snails pace. As cool as YCombinator is it put’s people in a terrible position and doesn’t necessarily result in the best product.
Firebug Lite 1.2; Now with improved lite-ness →
What a great news day. Word is out of OSCON that there is a new Firebug Lite (for Opera, Safari, the dreaded IE) with some nice new features such as DOM element inspection, xhr tracking and dom navigation, and perhaps, best of all, it can be embedded as a bookmarklet (awesome. could you do this with the old firebug lite?).
The Open Web Foundation →
If its too complicated to write about in under 50 words, let a professional do it.
The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing,... →
This is sad. You paid for your music and now because the store is closing you will lose it digitally forever. Yahoo recommends burning it to a CD. If you still think DRM stands a chance you’re a dope.
Legalizing LSD could create hundreds of thousands... →
When you’re paddling up a waterfall and your tire pops, how many pancakes does it take to shingle a dog house?
Answer: Ice cream has no bones.
Beyond REST: XMPP PubSub →
The revolution in our midst? People have been talking alot about using XMPP as a data service protocol. It makes a lot of sense considering that its designed for real time communication, but there are always rumblings about performance and scalability. Regardless, the work goes forward…
Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer... →
(via neonarcade)
Pulled from ReadWriteWeb, check it out.
BGPatterns →
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An awesome background generator.
Ubiquity For Firefox Is Not An Add-On - It's a... →
I don’t know a lot about the Ubiquity project other than its going to bring together our web apps in a new way. That alone makes it sound pretty exciting so hang tight for the next update from these guys.
The Fight for Fantastic Fonts (or, Let’s Give... →
Where is the love Firefox? Fonts have been so bad on the web for so long that there is now a design aesthetic based around their crappiness (I’m looking at you 37 Signals). The Firefox team needs to implement the default font renderer of the platform. That’s it. If your system supports opentype or type1 or truetype or whatever that needs to be readable by the browser. Maybe that will...
Slydial Lets You Avoid Awkard Calls, Go Straight... →
So Slydial here is a service that lets you call someone and go straight to their voicemail without the possibility of the recipient answering the call. All they get is a missed call notification and 1 new voice message. Try it out at 267-SLYDIAL (267-759-3425).
jQuery: Sparklines Plug-in →
Sparklines, Edward Tufte’s little baby graph now has a jQuery plugin to help you construct them. For anyone unfamilar with the concept Sparklines are little inline graphs designed for quick reference to data without taking your eyes away from what you’re reading. Can’t wait to try this out.
Host Your Own Lifestream With Sweetcron →
Lifestream apps. This is really where its going on our buddy Yongfook here has a great jump on it. Open source and extensible, this app holds a lot of promise.
iconic logo designers →
This site is run by David Airey. He’s creating a resource for logo designers to see the best of the best and learn more. Great design and highly usable.
IEPNGFix 2: Now supports CSS background position... →
Hallelujah!
hAudio for microformats mixtapes, in progress →
One day microformats will rule the world.
Updated RSS Feed
To streamline my blog posts I’ve decided to mashup Google Reader’s JSON output with Tumblr’s link posting. Originally I wrote a small script that simply converted the JSON feed to RSS (only parsing posts with Notes attached to them), but I quickly learned Tumblr had a rule set up to shorten link descriptions from RSS feeds to improve their SEO (duplicate entries with duplicate...
Building a better ActionScript →
Sorry for the RSS problems, I’m updating it now. In the meantime check out this post Colin Moock made about ActionScript 3’s flaws. Flash has come a long way since its inception and as Moock points out it is moving far, far away from those original goals set all those years ago. Of course we live in a different time and Flash has become a developer’s tool for a whole new set of...
Is This The Future Of Search? →
This screencast shows off Google’s “a year in the making” Google search + search result digging + commenting. I don’t know whether or not this is a joke…
Soundcloud expands the audio player →
A very sexy audio player indeed.
Holy SMOKES, Beck. This sounds amazing. I know you...
Toluu Releases Feed Preview →
Toluu could be the hottest shit on the internet. If you’re not familiar with the service it’s an rss sharing and discovery service. You connect with people on the site to find new feeds through other users lists. They recently added a feed preview feature that makes looking through someone’s list must easier. Invite only, but FPettit still has some.
FirePHP will change your life, young web developer →
If you havent heard of FirePHP please do yourself a huge service and go take a look at this PHP library/Firebug addon. By adding custom HTTP headers to your server responses, you can send traces from the server to the client without ever interrupting the body of the response. In the words of Greg Elliot, “Wow! Now it acts like an actual IDE!”. How right you are.
EmbraceYourGrace.com →
Last week we launched embraceyourgrace.com, and now that the show premiered tonight I just checked in to see how the site was doing: still alive. I installed wp-supercache to get some more mileage out of the server and I have to say I’m impressed with the results. Although there was initially a problem with some symbolic linking and Wordpress’ drop-in check for a cache system, once...
UNITY: Game Development Tool →
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Bit.ly: Please Use This TinyURL of the Future →
Try bit.ly over TinyURL, seriously. I just wish i could switch out this system with the one in alertthingy.
List of Firebug Extensions →
Lots of firebug extensions. Extensions for addons! What a country!
google reader mobile version is updated. nice new... →
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Web “Green”: Cultivating The Open Web →
Here’s a great post by Steve Ivy reviewing the open technologies that exist today that were promised by groups like Data Portability. One thing I’ve learned of late is that those types of organizations are bloated and ineffective, and google groups with active boards like, say, the DiSo project are quite nice.
CSS Variables are …. here! →
Finally, CSS variables are coming around. I know it’s important to the Mozilla team to build a platform with Firefox, but great CSS implementation is not something you can slack on.
Feature request: OAuth in WordPress →
OAuth in Wordpress combined with OAuth in Google means a powerful set of tools for portable data.