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…
I’m back in the Bay Area again for a couple of days to attend Mashup Camp. I’m quite looking forward to it. Note to self: if you played doubles volleyball earlier in the day, remember to ice your knees before getting on a plane. Overheard on the plane, producing some snickering from Steve and myself:…
FeedLounge was down for about 20 hours last week while we upgraded the back-end systems to roll out a huge performance improvement. This, naturally, generated some unrest amongst our users. After Scott and I got some rest and discussed the matter, I posted a lengthy response in the thread.
In the last few days, we’ve been able to fix a couple of bugs within 24 hours of the bug report1. The users notice. This is a good thing all around. No matter how long you test a product, actually letting it loose in the wild will always give you a flurry of strange and…
My last project for Eric was building a system for him to run a weekly photo competition on Wetpixel.com. This turned out to be a bit larger project than we thought, but we also added a bit more to the system than we’d originally planned. Using the admin interface, Eric and the other Wetpixel admins…
I implemented resizable panes in FeedLounge this afternoon. Everything went rather smoothly (I’d prototyped it in the San Jose Airport and on the plane last month), until I found one very strange issue in IE. When I resized the vertically separated panes, they would only go in one direction. Moving the bar down worked fine,…
We’ve pushed a bunch of new features out in FeedLounge tonight. Funny, the feature list doesn’t look any shorter though.
You can now take a free 3 Hour Tour of FeedLounge. Go check it out if you haven’t already.
FeedLounge is now open for business. Whew!
I started using del.icio.us to keep track of FeedLounge mentions, in case anyone else wants to see what the blogosphere is saying as they wait for Monday’s release. If you see mentions I’ve missed, add a ‘feedlounge’ tag to them and I’ll pick them up on the main feed from del.icio.us/tag/feedlounge.
We’ve announced the pricing for FeedLounge during the beta release.
Landed and got caught up with some friends in the Bay Area today. Looks like tomorrow will be a development day – at least half doing in person collaborative development1 with Scott as we push towards next monday’s public release of FeedLounge. Tuesday and Wednesday, we’ll be at MacWorld – hope to see y’all there.…
FeedLounge has been upgraded to alpha 7. Besides the new features (item push rocks!), this upgrade included a huge database update which caused about 24 hours of downtime. I’ve got a bit of reading to do to catch up with all my feeds.
I was very excited when it was announced that Firefox and IE will be using the same icon to allow people to subscribe to an RSS feed. This icon immediately becomes the standard “Subscribe to Feed Icon”, which is a great thing all around. Matt Brett has created some high quality versions of this icon…
Like most people who have migrated to XHTML for web development, I stopped using target=”_blank” for opening links in new windows in favor of onclick=”window.open(this.href); return false”. They accomplish the same thing (opening the link in a new window) and the second one validates. However, as I was implementing the often requested “open external links…
Today was extremely productive: a commonly requested feature for FeedLounge lots of front end work for Scott to hook up a few little elegance tweaks the adoption of the new standard “subscribe” icon (which you may have noticed on this site and feedlounge.com already) but I didn’t eat lunch until 6:30pm…