Results for: test

iPhone and BlackBerry Thoughts

Posted 2008-06-15 in Technology

Last week I activated my iPhone - flush with excitement about the 2.0 software. I've been using the iPhone as a test device for the last year, without any phone service.1 The iPhone with phone service is definitely more useful. Overall, increas...

Addictomatic

Posted 2008-05-01 in Crowd Favorite, Case Studies, News

Over the last few months, Crowd Favorite has had the privilege of working with Dave Pell to create a new search service: Addictomatic Addictomatic is a search aggregator, a way to see results from lots of sources all at once. Want to see th...

Images, onload Events and Browsers

Posted 2008-04-16 in Development

We've been working on a really fun project recently, and I was surprised at some of the browser behavior I was seeing in our testing. I knew from past experience that the window.load event waits to fire until all images have downloaded complete...

Twitter Tools 1.2b1

Posted 2008-04-13 in News, WordPress

I've got a new version of Twitter Tools ready (I think) for testing. This version adds a number of often requested features and other enhancements: Show a link to the tweet being replied to for @replies. Option to exclude @replies from the...

WordPress 2.5 Plugin Compatibility

Posted 2008-03-30 in WordPress

I haven't officially released WordPress 2.3 compatible versions of all of my plugins yet, but WordPress 2.5 is out nonetheless and brings some more plugin compatibility issues along with it. I'll try to get updated versions out soon - I'll upda...

Around the web

Posted 2008-03-09 in Links

Not too much to share this week. Guess all the action at SXSW isn't hitting the blogs I read. Sara Robinson | Learning From the Cultural Conservatives, Part II Internet Explorer 8: Progress! - yay! Hello App Store The Acid 3 Test ...

Fixing a MySQL Character Encoding Mismatch

Posted 2008-03-06 in WordPress, Development

We ran into an interesting MySQL character encoding issue at Crowd Favorite today while working to upgrade and launch a new client site. Here is what we were trying to do: copy the production database to the staging database so we could properl...

Around the web

Posted 2008-02-17 in Links

Welcome | Internet Advertising - the Rubicon Project - seems interesting, I'll be trying it out if I get into the beta. So you're going to write an iPhone app - great tips here. Starbucks Switching From T-Mobile to AT&T for Wi-Fi Servic...

Macworld | MsgFiler Rated 4 Mice

Posted 2008-02-14 in Links

Awesome! Adam has done a terrific job on MsgFiler. I'm thrilled to see it thriving. Credit to Paul Tomlin for his QuickFile extension for ThunderBird for the inspiration, and many thanks to Adam for building it and making it really slick in the...

Around the web

Posted 2008-02-03 in Links

xScope.mov (video/quicktime Object) - now that is awesome. stardust, deathwatch CodeIgniter 1.6 hits the streets - I see upgrades and testing in my future. PunBB 1.3 beta released! - see above... The funniest envelope I've ever received...

Around the web

Posted 2008-01-20 in Links

BusySync 2.0 Preview - more competition for SpanningSync. Toe Bliss on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - more Crocs pr0n! Facebook's crazy terms of use - good stuff from Greg. Why aren't I getting a Macbook Air? - :nod: Need an IP crash course?...

Around the web

Posted 2008-01-13 in Links

Changes Beta - hecuvalot cheaper than Araxis Merge, but I'd choose BBEdit's built-in diff tool over this one. Hughes or Ellsbury? Johan Santana trade negotiations... - nice coverage from Aaron. GrandCentral: GC Mobile Inbox - Access your me...

ShareThis 2.1b1

Posted 2007-12-20 in News, WordPress

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 ...

4 Ways to Get Banned from the Technorati Top 100

Posted 2007-12-19 in Links

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...

Popularity Contest 1.3b3

Posted 2007-12-16 in News, WordPress

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+. Popularit...

Twitter Tools 1.1b1

Posted 2007-12-16 in News, WordPress

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 Twit...

Lunarpages Wordpress Theme Contest

Posted 2007-12-06 in Links

Looks like another WordPress theme competition, good deal. This one is hosted by Lunarpages1 and has some decent prizes offered. That's an affiliate link, I get a kick-back if you sign up w/ them for hosting. [back] ...

A Day in the Life

Posted 2007-12-04 in General

Today's schedule: 7:30am - wake up, shower 7:45am - read and respond to e-mail 8:00am - status call with Mike, who has bigger things on his mind at the moment 8:20am - more e-mail 8:50am - eat breakfast 9:00am - drive in to office 9:30am ...

Spanning Sync Impressions

Posted 2007-10-31 in Reviews

I was initially critical of Spanning Sync1. I still think this would be better as an application than a service, but I'm also a pragmatist and since their pricing is reasonable I decided to give it a shot. Note: Make sure you get the latest ver...

Why I Don’t Use My iPhone (as a Phone)

Posted 2007-10-15 in Technology

Geof Morris asks a good question on my previous post discussing mobile browsers: That iPhone keyboard really is the only holding you back [from switching to the iPhone from the BlackBerry], isn’t it? The keyboard is definitely an issue, bu...

Around the web

Posted 2007-10-14 in Links

Engadget - every once in a while I get an urge to use a Windows box, just for a change of pace. Luckily it passes quickly. Who's the LOL$-obsessed one in this friendship? Hmmmmmm? - heh, the LOLcats sub-culture is truely addictive. S3 News...

Popularity Contest 1.3b2

Posted 2007-10-02 in News, WordPress

While Popularity Contest version 1.3b1 was perfectly compatible with WordPress 2.3, it wasn't compatible with the Google Sitemaps plugin. This version should be compatible with both. Thanks to Arne for his help identifying the compatibility issue ...

Popularity Contest 1.3b1

Posted 2007-10-01 in News, WordPress

I've released a beta version of Popularity Contest - my WordPress plugin that helps you find out which of your posts are most popular. This version should be WordPress 2.3 compatible1, but I need help testing it. Popularity Contest was already ...

WordPress 2.3 Plugin Compatibility

Posted 2007-09-25 in WordPress

Yes, I realize a lot of my plugins need some adjustment before they are WordPress 2.3 compatible. Unfortunately, I have a lot of plugins to update and it will take a little time to get through them all. I'll update this post with the status of ...

Around the web

Posted 2007-09-03 in Links

Tootsie Tanner - a friend clipped a magazine ad for this product and gave it to me. Subtle, I thought. ;) 2007 total lunar eclipse from Oakland, California - awesome. Rethinking Email story time - tips for installing MT on OS X Browser ...

Around the web

Posted 2007-07-15 in Links

Developing Content for iPhone's Mobile Safari - RD2 Blog Call Me Fishmeal.: iPhone's AJAX SDK: No, thank you. BlackBerry 8830 - 2 weeks later New Dojo Offline Release Copyright Virgins posting top like don't still I Juxtaposition ...

Use Tasks Upgrades

Posted 2007-07-12 in News, Tasks Pro™

The Use Tasks service is going down in about 5 minutes for planned upgrades to the latest releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™. I'll update this post once it's complete. UPDATE 9:33PM PST: All accounts have been upgraded and are now ru...

The iPhone Works Without AT&T Service

Posted 2007-07-02 in Technology

I canceled the AT&T service for my iPhone as planned and the iPhone seems to work just fine as a wifi-only device. Excellent! I reset the iPhone, synced, etc. and it still works without service. No guarantees that it will continue to wo...

iPhone First Impressions

Posted 2007-07-01 in Reviews, Technology

So I bought an iPhone. I plan to use it as an iPod (music and video), camera and as a development testing machine. Not as a phone. I'm hoping I can get this to function as a wifi-only device. I don't want the AT&T Wireless service - or more acc...

Around the web

Posted 2007-07-01 in Links

GrandCentral: Click2Call - Call from your address book or inbox with one click - pretty sweet. Should The IPhone Have A Landscape Keyboard Mode? Soft Arts - Triage Kill Your Television - I'm way too busy to watch TV these days, kinda miss...

Around the web

Posted 2007-06-24 in Links

WildCharger wireless charger poised for pre-order Thanks Dow Jones, Hello Automattic ! at raanan.com - congratulations to Raanan and Automattic! Tzi Software: AutoRate - looks useful. (thanks Chris) This application automatically sets the r...

From King Design to Crowd Favorite

Posted 2007-06-11 in Crowd Favorite, Case Studies

One of the challenges of renaming King Design to Crowd Favorite was how exactly to handle transitioning from kingdesign.net to the new crowdfavorite.net web site. I think I've come up with a reasonable solution that covers both people and search e...

Around the web

Posted 2007-05-27 in Links

Carter Bays of How I Met Your Mother: The TV Squad Interview - TV Squad One Man's Take on Twitter Boom Swagger Boom - awesome. Which compact camera do I recommend? - I've asked Eric this myself in the past. Robert Accettura: Firefox Tip...

Building alexking.org 2.0, part 11: Monetization

Posted 2007-05-22 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

Note: This is the eleventh (and last) in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. When I first launched alexking.org back in 2002, I didn't plan to make any money from it or do any advertising on it. I remember friends telli...

Tasks Pro™ 1.7.1rc1 and Tasks™ 2.7.1rc1

Posted 2007-05-17 in News, Tasks Pro™

I've posted release candidates of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™, both are bug fix releases addressing issues found in the 1.7 and 2.7 releases respectively. I'm quite pleased that the .7 releases were very solid, not requiring any immediate...

WordPress 2.2 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

Posted 2007-05-09 in Links

Looks like it's time to start testing everything in WP 2.2.

Twitter Tools 1.0

Posted 2007-05-07 in News, WordPress

I've released version 1.0 of Twitter Tools, my WordPress plugin that does a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Features include: Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes) Create a ...

“Crazy” User Requests

Posted 2007-05-02 in WordPress, Development

I get lots of e-mails regarding my WordPress plugins, running the entire spectrum from: Thank you so much, this works perfectly and is exactly what I wanted. to: Your plugin sucks, it dosen't work and it doesn't do what I want. Thankfu...

Making Alex King’s Popularity Contest cache-compatible

Posted 2007-04-29 in Links, WordPress

Hey, guys. I’d love to help to “encourage� Alex King to update his Popularity Contest plug-in for Wordpress to be WP-Cache2/APC compatible. When I was out in Denver last month, Alex said he had plans to do it, and that he had already given s...

Around the web

Posted 2007-04-29 in Links

Rootkit - ugh. :( OpenDNS add "shortcuts" - I already use LaunchBar for this functionality, which is akin to editing your HOSTS file. Michael Sitarzewski: Mac laptop, two internal drives? - even supports RAID configs, nice! Wordpress Them...

All Things Digital

Posted 2007-04-26 in Case Studies, WordPress, Development

Yesterday evening All Things Digital, a new home for Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and John Paczkowski was unleashed on the internet. I've been working on this for the past month and a half, and it's been a real whirlwind project. When we go...

Coda

Posted 2007-04-25 in Reviews, Software

There have been lots of hubbub going on around Panic's new web development tool, Coda, and with good reason. Coda's approach to web development quickly divides folks into two camps: those that love it and those that don't. Of course, now tha...

Laptops and Desktops

Posted 2007-04-24 in Development, Technology

It wasn't long ago that I was using a laptop as my primary machine. I thought I'd never buy another desktop. Nowadays the desktop machines blow the laptops away in performance. I use my laptop when I'm on the road, and look forward to getting home...

The Modern Web Development Process

Posted 2007-04-15 in Development

Create a nice web standards compliant web site, testing in Firefox and Safari. Test the site in IE6 and create IE6 specific hacks for things that need tweaking. Test the site in IE7 and create IE7 specific hacks for things that need tweakin...

GrandCentral

Posted 2007-04-13 in Technology

Steve has a good writeup on GrandCentral. I've been testing this too, and generally like it. However I've run into a problem that's probably going to cause me to stop using the service (until I get an option to work around the issue). When some...

10 Groaners

Posted 2007-04-02 in Fun / Humor

10 Groaners to get your Monday started off right: King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates , the most valuable diamond in the ancient w...

Around the web

Posted 2007-04-01 in Links

Adobe Apollo: beyond the hype Removing Dotted Lines with Image Replacement - when every detail counts. FastMail.FM weblog - Custom DNS for Virtual Domains available on beta server - interesting. Microsoft Windows Activation - nothing like...

Twitter Tools 1.0b2

Posted 2007-03-18 in News, WordPress

The second beta of Twitter Tools is now available for download. This fixes pretty much all known issues in the first beta and includes digest posting. It's still beta because there are a couple of Twitter API changes coming (hopefully soon) that w...

Sprint EV-DO, Again

Posted 2007-03-13 in Technology

I didn't waste much time fixing my CD problems. After my post on Sunday resulted in a bunch of "I've got the Sprint card and it rocks" comments and e-mails, I went ahead and placed an order on Monday. I placed the order through 3gstore.com, in ...

Twitter Tools 1.0b1

Posted 2007-03-12 in News, WordPress, Development

I've made good progress on my Twitter Tools plugin, enough that I'm putting it out there as a beta release so people can play with it. Here is a progress report from the roadmap I posted: Tweets will be stored in a separate table because ...

Text Link Ads Sponsorship

Posted 2007-03-08 in alexking.org

Text Link Ads1 has renewed their sponsorship of this site for another month. Again, I've agreed to this arrangement with Text Link Ads because I've been using their service as a publisher for more than a year now and have had a very positiv...

Twitter Tools Roadmap

Posted 2007-03-07 in WordPress, Development, Technology

Many thanks to everyone who stopped by and shared an opinion on how they think a Twitter integration WordPress plugin should work. I've started coding on the project and here are some of the decisions I've made and features it will have: ...

Link Harvest 1.0 Debug Edition

Posted 2007-02-27 in WordPress

Some folks are having trouble with my Link Harvest plugin not harvesting all their links. Since it works fine on all my test machines, I've added some logging to a special version to hopefully discover why it isn't working for them. To use this...

Link Harvest 1.0

Posted 2007-02-26 in News, WordPress

Link Harvest is a WordPress plugin that uses the content in your posts and pages to build a links list for you, based on the sites you actually link to. You can see it in action on my Links page I created this to help me better leverage my cont...

Too Many Browsers (Again)

Posted 2007-02-26 in Development

Continuing on my browser thread from last week, another browser trend is the recent growth of browsers that need to be supported/tested on. Since IE 4 or so, the number of browsers out there seemed to be shrinking. It was easier when you just h...

Building alexking.org 2.0, part 9: Toolset Handcuffs

Posted 2007-02-19 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

Note: This is the ninth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. One of the big reasons I wanted to put all of the alexking.org content into WordPress was because I'd found that I'd begun putting almost everything into th...

Overheard on PTI

Posted 2007-02-14 in Fun / Humor, Sports

Michael Wilbon: Albert Pujols scored a perfect 100 on his citizenship test, are you impressed? Tony Kornheiser: I am. Brad Lidge served that up to him. I can't wait for baseball season. :)...

Around the web

Posted 2007-02-11 in Links

MacBook Pro Woes - I need to get my full rotation of backup drives back in place, but at least I have RAID 1 internal as well. Obama Confronts 'Outsider' Dilemma - washingtonpost.com the show with zefrank - waves OpenID creates a foundati...

Yahoo! Pipes remixes the syndicated web

Posted 2007-02-08 in Links

Yahoo! Pipes lets any Yahoo! registered user enter a set of data inputs and filter their results. You might splice a feed of your latest bookmarks on del.icio.us with the latest posts from your blog and your latest photographs posted to Flickr. ...

Storage

Posted 2007-02-07 in Technology

This year I'm considering replacing my desktop machine - it would be really nice to be able to run virtual machines on my desktop for testing, etc.1 When I did a little pricing, I was rather surprised to see the effect upgrading the internal drive...

Text Link Ads Sponsorship

Posted 2007-02-06 in alexking.org

Text Link Ads1 and I are trying a little experiment for the next month. For the next month, they are a premium sponsor of this site. I've placed banner ads for them on pages that we think new bloggers will commonly visit - the goal being to...

Passwords

Posted 2007-02-02 in Software, Technology

Every so often, a Firefox plugin looks so nice and shiny to me that I consider switching from Camino to Firefox as my primary browser. For the last couple of weeks, the password hashing plugins have had my eye: Password Hasher SecurePasswo...

Scott and Alex on Firebug

Posted 2007-01-30 in Reviews, Development, Software

I don't know how I missed upgrading to the latest Firebug for so long, but I'm kicking my own arse for not getting on it sooner. Scott: I hope you are using FireBug by now. This thing rocks Alex: been using it for a few years Scott: the ...

Building alexking.org 2.0, part 8: Too Many Plugins?

Posted 2007-01-29 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

Note: This is the eighth in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. I want my site to work the way I want it to. Sometimes this matches the way WordPress works right out of the box, sometime it doesn't - that is where my pl...

WP Grins 1.3

Posted 2007-01-25 in News, WordPress

WP Grins isn't a plugin I use myself, so it's been languishing a bit. I took a couple of hours this morning and updated it. There are a couple of changes, all good ones I think: It is now a "pure plugin" - it no longer requires any modificat...

Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks™ 2.7

Posted 2007-01-16 in News, PHP Tag Engine, Tasks Pro™

Whoohoo! Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks™ 2.7 have now been officially released! New features: Tagging! Per tag RSS feeds. Per tag iCalendars. Searching and browsing by tag. Editing and appending tags to multiple tasks at...

King Design Store and Premium Support

Posted 2007-01-15 in Crowd Favorite, Tasks Pro™

I finally launched the new King Design store and premium support options this past weekend. The new store page allows customers to choose any/all products they want to buy, including support and installation service, then check out in a sin...

Around the web

Posted 2007-01-14 in Links

Keith Olbermann | Special Comment About "Sacrifice" Comparison - HTML Purifier - LGPL, I'll be using this in projects in the future. Habari - worth checking out. Jungle Disk 1.20e released (All Platforms) - haven't upgraded yet, but I do ...

The Latest Delay…

Posted 2007-01-10 in Tasks Pro™

My customers are getting restless waiting for the new releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks - I don't blame them, it's months past the my original planned release date. The good news is that things are very close now. I gave up on my work data...

Formatted READMEs

Posted 2007-01-03 in WordPress, alexking.org

I've set up the README files for my WordPress plugins so they are formatted nicely now instead of the plain text representation that was there before. For the curious, before and after. In addition, the README links for each plugin on the pl...

Popularity Contest Video Review

Posted 2007-01-03 in Links

Very nice to see someone enjoying my work so much. :)

2006 in Review

Posted 2006-12-31 in alexking.org, General

Welcome to my second annual :scare: year in review :/scare: 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 h...

Google Calendar Alarm-It

Posted 2006-12-20 in Calendar Tools, News, Technology

I've got a couple of little Google Calendar tools I plan to release in the future, so I went ahead and packaged up the code to add alarms to Google Calendars and created a project page to host it. Google Calendar Alarm-It is a pass-through scr...

Reynolds Data Recovery = Nightmare

Posted 2006-12-20 in Reviews, Rants, Technology

Back at the end of November my desktop machine froze and my hard drives got corrupted. It happens. I hadn't done a recent backup (entirely my fault), so I had a choice: forget about the data I was losing or pay someone to get it back for me. I dec...

Around the web

Posted 2006-12-17 in Links

The 'Build to suit' ten step - this can certainly work, but I also believe the best products are built by folks that are passionate about them. This model fails that test. Daring Fireball Linked List: December 2006 - link blogging a link blog...

Keyboard and Mouse, Redux

Posted 2006-12-16 in Reviews, Technology

I gave the Logitech S 530 a fair shake, even after its drivers caused my machine to freeze up (which in turn corrupted my hard drive and cost me several weeks in data recovery hell). The thing is, I just didn't like the keyboard action. It's no...

When it Rains…

Posted 2006-12-15 in Technology

After backing up my desktop machine last night, I let it run the latest Security Update. Mistake. After the update, the machine wouldn't boot again - with the fans screaming "I don't like this RAM" at the top of their lungs. I removed half t...

Building alexking.org 2.0, part 7: Plugins

Posted 2006-12-13 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

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 mak...

Testing Kontera “In-Text” Ads

Posted 2006-12-05 in Technology, alexking.org

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 ...

“Share This” Icon Concept #1

Posted 2006-12-04 in Share Icon, WordPress, Development, Technology

As previously discussed, I think it would be a good idea to come up with a generic "social bookmarking"/"sharing" icon for use with things like my Share This plugin. I've come up with a rough concept icon: It's in the same vein as the fe...

An Engineering Brain

Posted 2006-12-02 in WordPress, Development

Sometimes I hate having an :scare: engineering brain :/scare: . Last week I was asked about creating a mobile friendly version of my Share This plugin and I've also been asked about creating a version that works if JavaScript is disabled. Now ...

Why I Don’t Use FeedBurner

Posted 2006-12-01 in Technology

There are 2 reasons I don't use FeedBurner, in spite of all the cool features it has to offer: I want to own my feed URLs. I want to own my permalinks (item URLs). The first can be somewhat mitigated by using mod_rewrite1, but the sec...

Building alexking.org 2.0, part 6: Leveraging Your Content

Posted 2006-11-30 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

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 l...

Path Finder 4.6

Posted 2006-11-30 in Links

A new release of Path Finder (4.6) is out. It looks like the web site is only partially updated so far, but the download is updated and that's the important thing. I've been beta testing this version and it's quite nice. If you're a Mac user, you ...

%27 = ‘ in JavaScript Strings?

Posted 2006-11-29 in WordPress, Development

Patrick kindly took the time to let me know about an issue with my Share This plugin for WordPress: apostrophes/single-quotes in post titles break things. The thing is, the string looks fine in the source. The title: This title's got an apos...

Shopping Online vs. Brick and Mortar

Posted 2006-11-26 in Rants, Society, Technology, General

I mentioned a few days ago that I was interested in getting a new keyboard and mouse. Through my own research and the comments on that post, the Logitech S 530 seems like the best fit for me. Normally, I just buy tech stuff online (from Amazon whe...

Around the web

Posted 2006-11-26 in Links

The Top Ten Things I Love Most About Woz A missionary position for the Democrats. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine I thought this was pretty funny until I saw this one iPod Video a Flop? Plus, Our Field Test on Tiny Video Watching ...

Around the web

Posted 2006-11-19 in Links

RSS Advertising Options Charging Rumsfeld With Torture/War Crimes Text Inputs on Safari // ShaunInman.com/post The Lord and the Biker - ha! Web 3.0 Does Not Validate The Meaning of Borat - I'll probably get this one on Netflix. Free...

Tasks Pro™ 1.7rc3 and Tasks 2.7rc3

Posted 2006-11-17 in News, Tasks Pro™

These releases have pretty minor changes, but I still have about a week's worth of set-up and prep work to get the on-line demo's and trials upgraded, along with new screenshots for the the web site and the new support system. I figured I might as...

Safari Search Boxes

Posted 2006-11-12 in Development

I ran across a surprising little feature in Safari. If you change a standard: <input type="text" /> field to a "search" box like so: <input type="search" /> In Safari, it is magically transformed from a standard input field...

Crazy Egg Heatmap

Posted 2006-11-10 in alexking.org

I used Crazy Egg to create before (v1) and after (v2) heatmaps of alexking.org. Unfortunately I didn't take screenshots of the v1 heatmap and it turns out that the heatmap display uses the current live site as the background - not a saved screensh...

Building alexking.org 2.0, Part 3: Navigation

Posted 2006-11-09 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

Note: This is the third in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. The old site navigation was basically in several parts: The main tree menu along the left Breadcrumbs and landing pages Blog archives, categories ...

Building alexking.org 2.0, Part 2: Redesign Goals

Posted 2006-11-06 in WordPress, Development, alexking.org

Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the building of alexking.org 2.0. It was probably in early 2004 when I started feeling enough dissatisfaction with my site that I wanted to re-build it. I took some of those thoughts and pu...

Popularity Contest 1.2.1

Posted 2006-11-05 in News, WordPress

I released a new version of my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release. Many thanks to those that opened threads for these bugs in the WordPress Support forums and pointed me to them. The updated download is ...

Link Blog

Posted 2006-11-04 in alexking.org

Another new addition to alexking.org in v2 is some link blog functionality. I really enjoy the timely commentary of link blogs like Ethan's and John's, and recently I've been wanting to add more commentary to more of the links I add to my weekly A...

Popularity Contest 1.2

Posted 2006-11-03 in News, WordPress

I also updated my Popularity Contest plugin for WordPress while building alexking.org v2. Significant changes include: Support for recording page activity (page specific reports will be added after WP 2.1 is released) Added a [?] link (opt...

WordPress Mobile Edition 2.0

Posted 2006-11-03 in News, WordPress

I updated my WordPress Mobile Edition plugin while building alexking.org v2. Significant changes include: Support for pages as well as posts A link to exit the mobile interface if someone wants to (and a matching link to re-enter). Less ...

New Site Launch Delayed

Posted 2006-10-23 in alexking.org

Finally, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for my new site. :) The content has all been converted, and I spent a few hours today merging the databases to test that everything works as it should. I've already done the IE testing, and ...

IE 7 Support

Posted 2006-10-23 in Tasks Pro™, alexking.org

With IE 7 out, I'll be taking a little time (another week or so) to make sure the new versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks don't have any issues there before the upcoming releases. A slight delay, but probably a worthwhile one. I haven't seen an...

Performancing Ads

Posted 2006-10-19 in alexking.org

I signed up for the new Performancing ads to test them out. You'll see them in the sidebar under the Google ads (which you may or may not have greasemonkey'ed out). ;) I'm not sure I like having graphical ads (these seem big), and I don't yet h...

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