I’ve got a new version of Twitter Tools ready to go, but wanted to do a quick release candidate to get some wider testing before doing the general 2.0 release. This has some new features, including bit.ly support, option to exclude tweeting blog posts in certain categories, hashtags and the ability to customize the tweet…
July, 2009
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Bill Maher: New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit 1Password: password manager for websites – I should take a closer look at this, think I still have some issues with how it works. Using JSON on servers without native support – same approach I generally use. Pay Walls Apple treats all…
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I’m getting old. I can’t think of another reason why it took me so long to find this handy cellphone pocket in my laptop bag. Yes, the same laptop bag I’ve been carrying for over a year. Incidentally, this is by far the best MacBook Air bag I could find. It’s the Timbuk2 Blogger, 2007…
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Shawn (one of our talented developers at Crowd Favorite) has created some great tools for WordPress developers that use BBEdit and TextMate. The TextMate bundle has been out for a little while, but he now has a functional port of it to a BBEdit clipping set as well.1 The TextMate Bundle provides nice, handy auto-complete…
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Time to upgrade – fixes an XSS vulnerability.
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I thought our windows were going to break with the hail pounding against them sideways. The gutters filled up and were overflowing, as you can see. Lasted all of 10 minutes or so – crazy! The video didn’t turn out as well.
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A Farewell to Harms – WSJ.com – yowch. YouTube – The iPhone Ad You’ll Never See (thanks Raanan) Eric Ries – Lean Startup coming to Boulder | Colorado Startups – awesome that David is setting these up, thanks! Prevent Facebook from using your photo in ads – whoa. New Corporate Site – awesome, congrats Mike!…
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I guess I’m getting to that age. Amongst my friends I’m seeing babies being born and parents having health issues with startling frequency this year. It’s a strange feeling…
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I think there are two reason why the baseball’s All-Star game has lost some of its shine. 1. Interleague play. Before interleague play the only time the best hitters and pitchers from each league faced each other was in the mid-summer classic and the World Series. Interleague play has cheapened that – it’s a shame.…
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MailChimp has released a great new WordPress plugin: Analytics360°. This plugin creates a reporting dashboard for your MailChimp and Google Analytics right within your WordPress admin interface. Take a look at the post about the plugin on MailChimp’s blog, which includes a very cool video. It’s pretty slick, and useful – though I may be…
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When working on a web project that has multiple features/components, there is a tendency to want to get all the big stuff done first and then focus on the little stuff. For example, when building a site with a blog, forums and an online store I will typically see developers working on getting the basics…
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Free HTML Email Templates | MailChimp.com – very handy. John Lilly – Lessons From Mozilla: WordCamp San Francisco 2009 – this was one of my favorite talks at WordCamp – I’m a John Lilly fan-boy. Hacker News | The BBC’s Glow effort has always confused me. They were using jQuery on the main… YouTube –…
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Here’s a nice little one-trick pony WordPress plugin: Drafts Dropdown. It literally just adds quick access to your drafts via a dropdown area. Click… and… There you have it. A small convenience to be sure, but a convenience nonetheless. Of note to other plugin developers, the code I created to place the tab and drawer…
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We’ve released new versions of our Carrington themes: Carrington Blog – version 2.1 Carrington Text – version 1.2 Carrington JAM (Just Add Markup) – version 1.2 Carrington Blog and Text are designed to be ready-to-use themes for any bloggers, while Carrington JAM is our theme skeleton for designers and developers to build on. These are…
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I’ve been using the WordPress app for the iPhone lately and liking it – except how downright terrible the authoring experience because of the iPhone’s crappy keyboard. I’ll be installing this today…