I got a couple of reports that my WordPress Theme Browser was not working. I checked it out, and sure enough – not working. This was a bit of a surprise as that code hadn’t changed in years. Turns out, it was the browsers that had changed. I had moved the theme browser from my…
April, 2008
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No “Around the web” this week. Too much has been going on at Crowd Favorite and I just got through my week’s feed reading with too few links to share to be worthwhile. Hopefully as things get back to a more normal state my feed reading will become more than a weekly event (and I…
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This is a really simple WordPress plugin that only does one thing: disable the tag auto-complete feature in WordPress 2.5. The tag auto-complete feature is very nice, and I personally like it quite a bit. However, some of our clients have thousands of tags and were experiencing unacceptable slowdowns with this feature enabled. If you…
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BusySync 2.0 allows you to sync iCal with Google Calendar, in addition to syncing iCal calendars with others on your LAN.
I’m still using BusySync and am generally pleased with it.
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Here’s hoping this upcoming week is a return to sanity, including more time for keeping up with my feed reading. Problem With Microsoft Every step of the way, as the iPhone and similar Apple products were created, the design of the product won out, over other demands and constraints. They get bigger – 38 Pitches…
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Not the sort of thing I’m happy to be right about.
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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 completely. This is why jQuery and other JS libraries implement $(document).ready() features; so…
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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 sidebar tweets list. Make all @usernames clickable. Check that the tweets downloaded are…
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The Real Truth About Barack Obama! Jared Polis for Congress A Responsible Plan: Executive Summary Muppet Rick-Roll – brilliant. YouTube – Jerry needs no help playing with his ball. – I need one of these. Schilling to Bradford to You – some interesting stuff in here. It’s the Marketing, Stupid – I still think the…
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Heh – fantastic.
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As you’ve no doubt heard already, Google released Google App Engine at the Google Campfire One event last night. Folks, this is a real game changer. Scalability has been the final frontier for web applications for far too long. For web developers like myself, the “building the app” part of offering a web service is…
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Sorry, no “Around the web” this week. I didn’t have time to read any blogs – ugh! I hope to catch up soon.
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This is f*cking brilliant.