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An Easier Way to Upgrade Wordpress

Saturday, December 8th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

This method of upgrading Wordpress using Subversion is actually much easier on the brain cells than their standard method. I’m not sure why I hadn’t heard of it before.

Socialstream

Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Google sponsored CMU project on rethinking and reinventing Social Networking software.

Photosynth samples

Friday, June 8th, 2007 at 11:07 am

Coolest thing I’ve ever seen demo-ed by MS Research.

Humanized

Sunday, February 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Makers of Enso, a verbose less symbolic version of Quicksilver.

Tumblr

Sunday, February 25th, 2007 at 6:01 pm

For making tumblelogs, which are short-attention span blogs. Which is redundant. Was a neologism for this actually necessary?

Writing software for the Shuttle

Thursday, November 9th, 2006 at 9:35 pm


Blogging anonymously using Tor

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 at 5:43 pm

Wasn’t he king of the Hill People? Oh, wait, that was Lothar. Yes obscure Mike Meyers. The right people will get it.

SugarCRM using YUI libraries

Saturday, August 26th, 2006 at 10:45 am

The nice thing about Open Source development is that you get to use nice things, something that’s just not possible in corp-orama.

RSS Popper

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 at 3:45 am

Get RSS feeds in Outlook. Free-er than Newsgator. [via gtdwannabe]

Everybody’s Got One and The Other Guys’ Runs Rails

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 at 5:08 pm

“Hanson on Rails”:http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6170:
bq.:http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6170 Rails is opinionated software. It eschews placing the old ideals of software in a primary position. One of those ideals is flexibility—the notion that we should try to accommodate as many approaches as possible, that we shouldn’t pass judgement on one form of development over another. Well, Rails does, and I believe [...]

Mouse gestures for IE

Monday, September 26th, 2005 at 10:07 pm

Kick ayuss. Nicely played.

Running Windows with No Services

Sunday, July 24th, 2005 at 11:02 am

‘cept Clippy of course.

Myghty Writey

Saturday, July 9th, 2005 at 2:53 pm

“Myghty”:http://www.myghty.org/: A Python templating library based on “HTML::Mason”:http://www.masonhq.com/. Somewhere in the early history of the _roll your own_ period of this blog, I used (and loved using) Mason. Hence this _Mad founding fathers’ religion_ prop!

NINJAM over the internets

Saturday, June 11th, 2005 at 11:03 am

“NINJAM”:http://www.ninjam.com over the internets. Jam with others over the internet using Ogg Vorbis compression. Imagine being able to have a _pickup_ jam session with anyone who happens to be online at the same time you are. Niceness. From the makers of Winamp, Gnutella, mlIpod, etc. Ok, really Justin Frankel.

Instiki Wicket

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 at 11:51 am

While scrutiny and interest in “Rails”:http://www.rubyonrails.org is currently the flamefest du jour among the _my language/framework is greater than your language/framework_ cabal, another Ruby project that has garnered acclaim and considerably less controversy has to be “Instiki”:http://www.instiki.org, a Ruby-based wiki. It is the easiest, most elegant and least annoying wiki I have installed and it [...]

VIM Till We Barf

Monday, November 22nd, 2004 at 2:01 pm

Note to vim users: This is a great tip on how to use vim as an external editor in any windows application that understands the control-a keyboard command. This means you can effectively use vim whenever you are editing a textarea in your browser or replying to an email in Outlook, although the latter is [...]

Paparazzi

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004 at 5:32 pm

Full-length screen shots in OSX

iTunes Obsolescence

Thursday, August 26th, 2004 at 1:31 pm

iTunes on my Powerbook rocks my world. iTunes on my T41 does not. ml-iPod is a plugin that lets you control your iPod through winamp 5. Booyahs ensue.

SubEthaFari

Tuesday, August 17th, 2004 at 11:30 pm

Use SubEthaEdit as the source viewer for Safari.

Mi Casa Picasa

Tuesday, July 20th, 2004 at 9:12 pm

Picasa is now a free download. I haven’t tried it, but the interface looks as simple to use as iPhoto. As a matter of opinion, I would go so far as to say they nicked iPhoto’s look and feel, as Cheney would say, big time.