Welcome to my third annual year in review post. January – I begin offering premium support and TechStars is announced. I start helping RedMonk in their site update efforts, PHP Tag Engine reaches 1.0, I release a variety of WordPress plugin updates and we upgrade the Use Tasks service. February – I get to release…
2007
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Sand Art – LOVE-2008.wmv Photo thoughts – good commentary here. Paying for Twitterific – hear hear! 5xm.org / Avatars – pretty cool idea. ByePie – SimplePie is a good package, I hope development continues. Don’t feed the raccoons – good stuff from Craig. Receipts – this is hilarious! Three Days With an iPhone – I’ve…
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MsgFiler is what makes Mail.app usable for me. Fantastic upgrade, the speed improvement over the 1.x version is probably in the… let’s just say before it was acceptably slow and now it is blazingly fast.
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Hope you all are enjoying some time off with friends and family.
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Apple Wireless Keyboard Review and the Big Control Key – Brilliant! On the re-appearance of the OS X Java 6 Developer Preview – heh. FlyClear Discount Code – whoa. Cliff Shaw on lessons learned and moving forward – some good tips in here. Is Pownce Going To The DeadPool? – I haven’t gotten a Pownce…
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There’s a new version of the ShareThis WordPress plugin available. Officially it’s a beta because we didn’t have as much time to test it as we wanted to. There may be a couple of bugs lurking out there, but we wanted to get it released before the end of the year because it adds some…
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At Crowd Favorite we use SVN at the core of our team development work. We recently tried to switch from Word and Excel documents to Pages and Numbers documents for estimates and proposals. Unfortunately, we’ve discovered that iWork breaks SVN. The .numbers and .pages files are bundles – plain directories that OS X treats differently.…
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Congratulations to Mike and Julie on the arrival of their little girl! I got to see some photos this evening (you’re right Mike, the iPhone is a great portable slideshow device).
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Interesting commentary, also here. To be honest, I only added the explanation link to the Popularity Contest percentage after getting lots of questions about what it meant. I certainly didn’t intend to benefit from the link to the explanation page… who wants GoogleJuice™ to a random page with a ? as the keyword? I did think that a side effect might be people liking the idea and choosing to download the plugin themselves, so I guess my intentions were not completely pure.
It’s always interesting to see people assign motives to my actions, especially when the motives are their own invention and were often never something I considered. Something about hindsight being 20/20 might be appropriate to insert here…
This post is part of the project: Popularity Contest. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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I really wanted to like Spanning Sync, I bought a lifetime copy and tried it for over a month. However, I’d had to give it up and go back to my old solution: subscribing to my Google Calendars in iCal. Here are the reasons I’m turning Spanning Sync off (for now): It would somehow decide…
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I was really excited for this,
then I discovered it only syncs a single calendar. I applaud Google for embracing iCalendars and making it easy for us to create lots of them to keep things nicely organized,but then they go and add all kinds of features that only work with the Default Calendar. That part sucks.UPDATE: I was wrong – YAY!!
I believed that the sync only did the “Default Calendar” because after I entered my username and password I was presented with only this option. Since I wanted to sync more than just the Default Calendar, last time I didn’t proceed any further.
This time I did, and went ahead with the sync. Lo and behold, the first thing it did was download the calendar list (then synced the Default Calendar). After this initial sync, I was then able to go into options and choose my additional calendar; including my Google Apps calendars.
Most Excellent!
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I’m very excited to announce that Crowd Favorite has grown once again, this time bringing on a developer who needs no introduction to most people in the WordPress world: Dougal Campbell. Dougal has made numerous contributions to the WordPress community, from core code contributions and plugins to Ping-O-Matic. Like me, he’s got years of experience…
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Over the last couple of weeks we at Crowd Favorite have had the pleasure of working with the good folks at TechCrunch to help get the new CrunchGear site design up and running (read about it on CrunchGear and TechCrunch). The designers at ACS did the majority of the new design work1, then we helped…
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This version of Popularity Contest fixes a single small bug. I’ve got a good set of features to add to this plugin in the future when I get some roundtuit, but for now I wanted to at least get this fix out for those of you on WP 2.3+. Popularity Contest is a WordPress plugin…
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With some help from Dougal, I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools that should be compatible with WordPress 2.3+ ready for final testing. Twitter Tools is a WordPress plugin that creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts…