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…
A few goals for 2007: Structure my work day a little better. More time coding and less time dealing with e-mail, etc. through better time management. Do a better job being on time (I’m normally ~5 minutes late). I plan to do this by trying to do a better job of stopping what I’m doing…
Welcome to my second annual year in review post. January – Scott and I attend MacWorld and are madly trying to get FeedLounge ready for launch. I finish my digital photo frame and run into the first of what will be several hardware issues in ’06. February – Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.7 are…
Back in 2003, I postulated that micropayments might be a better monetization strategy for free/open source software than traditional donationware . In particular, I liked the idea of asking for $1 per download. I’m certainly not going to put up a paywall barrier to the stuff I make available here, but I thought it would…
I get a fair number of e-mails asking if the Font Size switcher in my sidebar is a WordPress plugin or where to find it. I built it based on this tutorial at A List Apart. Sorry Safari users, Safari chokes hard on this technique. I recommend using a better browser. I also added this…
Yes, comment spam is the reason the site keeps going away from time to time. It’s basically DDOS by comment spam. We’re working to put up some measures to stop it.
Dear Yahoo! Answers Visitors– I’m sorry to hear that someone is spamming Yahoo! Answers. Please understand that just because a web site links to mine does not mean that I am somehow responsible for their site or their actions. The web site linked in the spam you are getting is a WordPress installation, which includes…
It seems that alexking.org is currently on the Amazing Bouncing Server: up, down, up, down. I hear that it’s become a betting game among some of my regular visitors. This entertainment is provided free of charge. UPDATE: We’re running on a new configuration now. UPDATE #2: We’ve confirmed that this is the work of comment…
Note: This is the seventh in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. One of the great strengths of WordPress is its plugin system. In the upcoming 2.1 release, there is very little you can’t do as a drop-in plugin. This makes it easy to use WordPress as a CMS and keep…
I added little comment icons and put in the share icon for my Share This links. I had icons on links like this in my previous design and was kind of glad to be rid of them in the new design. However, I think these work OK.
A week ago I talked about some things I don’t like (and the reasons why) about some of the features of FeedBurner‘s feed service1. Some folks thought I was trying to badmouth FeedBurner on some personal vendetta, and nothing could be further from the truth. I merely ran smack into some old concerns in a…
We seem to have a sub-optimal server configuration right now which is resulting in intermittent downtime. We’re working on getting that fixed. Thanks for your patience when things go wonky.
I’m trying out Kontera In-Text Ads here on the site. These work by attaching ad links (in green) with little hover-overs to words on the page. Try them out, see what you think. I can tweak some settings, so feedback is welcome. I plan to leave this active for a month or so as a…
Note: This is the sixth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. Once you get a few years worth of content (posts and comments) in your blog, you’ve likely got some pretty good and interesting content in there. Over the last 2 years, I’ve been working on creating new ways to…
I’ve updated some of the link blog functionality on this site, changing the icon and standardizing1 the “#” internal link and “visit site” external link at the bottom of each item: What do you think, is it an improvement? Shows the same on the web site and in the RSS feed. [back]
I noticed Matt using Snap previews – pretty nice. I figured they’d be especially handy for my WordPress Themes page, as folks have asked for screenshots of the themes for a while now. I’ve implemented this on just my WordPress themes and styles pages for now. The only drawback seems to be pretty slow server…