July, 2007

  1. Back to the iPod

    When I got an iPhone, I put my iPod on the shelf and used the iPhone exclusively as my iPod for the last couple of weeks. The iPhone is a very cool device, and beats the iPod hands down for video, but as an in-car audio device – which is what I use my iPod…

  2. Free Magazines

    I was approached by TradePub a little while back to see if I wanted to be one of their “free magazine” affiliates. From what I gather, it’s basically the exchange of marketing information about you for free magazines – some of which are pretty useful reads. I imagine this will be an attractive offer to…

  3. Around the web

    jQuery’s no-conflict mode: Yet another reason why it’s the best – I’m sold, been loving jQuery so far. More cowbell – Wikipedia – awesome. furbo.org – One line of code for iPhone optimization – added to my Tasks list. YouTube – The Vegas Line! Yahtzee by Sean Rosenthal – a couple folks were talking about…

  4. CAPTCHA or a Challenge Response E-mail?

    SPAM sucks for everyone and fighting against it is a losing battle, yet we web developers have to do our best to limit it the best we can. I’m facing a number of situations where I have to choose between offering the user a CAPTCHA or a challenge-response e-mail (e-mail them a link to click).…

  5. Weird WordPress Settings Issue

    I debugged a strange WordPress issue for a client today, one I hadn’t seen or heard of before, so I thought I’d document it. The symptoms: IE7 would try to download the wp-login.php page instead of loading it. Mobile devices (using my mobile plugin would complain that they could not view the site due to…

  6. Around the web

    Another short links week… furbo.org – Multi-touch on the desktop Sprint BlackBerry 8830 – unlocked SIM for world use, pretty awesome! funkatron.com : What Matt Mullenweg doesn’t know about PHP5, and how it hurts him and his users – I added my 2 cents (thanks Steve) Yard Sale – great writeup from Rands on “why…

  7. Server Move Imminent

    This web site (along with crowdfavorite.net, etc. everything except crowdfavorite.net which will be transitioned next week) will be moving to a new (faster) server this afternoon. Apologies in advance for any downtime. If you use OpenDNS, you probably won’t notice a thing. I’ll update this post when the migration is complete. UPDATE: This is the…

  8. A Whole New Kind of Busy

    I can’t recall allowing my schedule to get this chaotic in a long time. I’m finding myself without time to read blogs or write anything of real substance. My drafts list is growing nicely, I only open NetNewsWire every couple of days and I can hardly keep up with my Twitter stream. 🙂 I’ve got…

  9. Around the web

    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 Speculation as to why iPhone doesn’t include Flash CSS Selector Speed tests using SlickSpeed | corey gilmore’s blog…

  10. Use Tasks Upgrades

    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 running Tasks Pro™ 1.7.1/Tasks™ 2.7.1. This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™.…

  11. Mail.app Plugin Wanted: Kill This Thread

    Would someone create a Mail.app plugin to implement kill this thread1 functionality? That would be grreeeeaaaaat. Basically, auto-delete (or create filters to auto-delete) all future messages by In-Reply-To headers (and possibly References headers, now exactly sure how it all works). [back]