I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
GameTonight now creates a module for Panic’s excellent Status Board iPad app. The URL is simple, add ‘/statusboard’ to any metro…
I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts…
Welcome to my (semi) annual year in review post. Last year I wrote: I feel like I’m still at a mid-way point on a number of the things I’m trying to accomplish, hopefully 2012 will see continued progress. I’m pleased to say that is indeed how 2012 played out. At Crowd Favorite we took a…
I’ve upgraded this site to WordPress 3.5 (rc4) to help test the media compatibility changes we’ve got in place for an upcoming release of our FavePersonal theme. Please let me know if anything looks out of whack.
Welcome to my sixth (semi) annual year in review post. I missed posting a review for 2010 so I’ve added the 2010 stats into the table below as well and I’ve added in the numbers for 2002 and 2003 as well. It was a good year for me both personally and professionally. My daughter is…
I recently received this email: Hello I am and I am a member of some financial communities. I just visited your site (alexking.org) and I am a frequent reader of your site. The articles of your blog is really worth reading. The quality of your content is excellent. After seeing this, I would like to…
If this site seems to load a little faster today it’s because it is now hosted at CloudMoxie, a hosting company that Crowd Favorite (my company) is a partner in. We’ve been rolling out our hosting services slowly, mainly for our clients at Crowd Favorite, but we’re at a point now where we’re willing to…
A few months back I changed the label of the ad section of my sidebar from “Ads” to “Make Me Money”. Apparently Google didn’t think my pithy little section title was very funny. Fair enough, I’ve kicked it back to the “boring” setting. And shed a small tear.
Sorry for the few hours of downtime here this morning. I moved the last of my domains off of Network Solutions and it seems that the DNS settings weren’t transferred properly. Everything appears to be back up and running now, but I’m sure some weirdness will continue throughout the day as things propagate.
Over the last few years my blogging has curtailed sharply. I’m down to 180-ish posts per year, of which about 40 are link dumps. This is largely due to the fact I’ve been working on client projects that I can’t discuss openly during the development phases (like I could when I was building my own…
I updated my PwdHash page to tweak the CSS for mobile (webkit) browsers. It’s not quite a replacement for a native app on a mobile device, but it’s a lot better than the desktop version was. Feel free to use it if you like. This post is part of the thread: Passwords – an ongoing…
Welcome to my fifth annual year in review post. Last year I wrote this as an intro to my annual retrospective: This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. It’s a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and…
I’ve experienced a weird and unfortunate chain reaction over the last 48 hours. A flood of comment spam Akismet not accepting connections from my server1 and/or not catching the spam. UPDATE: this wasn’t Akismet’s fault, see bottom of post. The email notifications from all the spam comments sending to my mail account My mail host…
Just when I thought I was getting back to blogging more regularly, the combination of a busy work week, interviewing and recruiting for our open QA/Developer position, and three sets of family visitors got me right off track again.
I’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.8 and you should too. I’ve had to upgrade a bunch of my plugins in the process, bringing them current with the latest and greatest WordPress code and best practices. Expect a couple more plugin releases soon. I also took the opportunity to switch everything from Prototype to jQuery – resulting…
I know a lot of folks like to close comments on old posts to cut down on comment SPAM. I certainly understand the sentiment behind this, but I’d like to encourage you to consider leaving comments on those old posts open. Here are just a couple of examples where keeping comments open has been interesting…
Welcome to my fourth annual year in review post. This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. It’s a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and working on more client projects that I can’t talk about as they…