May, 2010

  1. You’re Welcome

    This sort of thing frustrates me to no end: Ms. Bates, your carefully chosen words say volumes. Not to confuse people with the facts, but not only does Twitter Tools give you fine grain control over your decision to send (or not send) each post to Twitter, it even has a feature that prevents posts…

  2. Around the web

    jedijunkies on Dailymotion – This is remarkable. inessential.com: Apps that work together – on iPad – the problem here is that it’s up to each app to decide what they integrate with. Developers are (reasonably) very reluctant to add features for a minority of users, but I still want the integrations to the apps/services I…

  3. Coupon Evolution

    In the email ad I received from Eddie Bauer for their Memorial Day sale this weekend: Print this email or show on your mobile device upon checkout. Emphasis mine. I think this is pretty darn cool.

  4. Game Tonight Data Issues

    Looks like the data provider for Game Tonight is having a bad day and serving me empty data streams. This was working fine yesterday, so hopefully this is a momentary blip and we’ll be back up tomorrow. If not, I’ll look into an alternate data provider. Thanks for your patience. UPDATE: I believe these are…

  5. Email Address Typos

    There are few things that annoy me as much as the following scenario: Someone sends a message to me via a feedback form. I compose and send a reply. My message (the reply) bounces back because they mis-typed their email address. Sometimes I can look at the address and figure out what the issue was…

  6. Around the web

    Rands In Repose: The Twinge – great stuff, as usual (finally catching up on my InstaPaper). ongoing by Tim Bray – HTML5 and the Web – Right now, there are certain classes of applications, particularly on mobile devices, where you’re going to get a better result by building a native app. Maybe even by building…

  7. Wrong Approach

    I spent an hour this evening circling some code while trying to write an abstracted base class. I was taking the wrong approach. Even though I need the base class, trying to start by creating it before creating a simple working prototype is a recipe for going in circles and fumbling about. Build a simple,…

  8. Why Custom Post Types are Great

    WordPress 3.0 will introduce a simple programatic way for developers to create custom post types. I’ve seen people talking at length about this feature, but most discussion focuses on how you can have a custom display for certain content, support custom URL structures or manage content differently. These things aren’t new – they are all…

  9. Is WordPress a Platform or Product?

    At Crowd Favorite we get a lot of inquiries from people who are interested in building something with or on WordPress. These potential projects vary greatly in scope and concept – some are just a couple of days, some are 6 months or more. To make things more complicated, these potential clients often view WordPress…

  10. Around the web

    Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything – brilliant! Apple Confirms AT&T Has iPhone Exclusivity Until 2012 – well, crap. I just had my daily dose of AT&T-sucks-don’t-even-think-about-it-you-moron today too. Whats Next for Me (But Not Yet!) Johns Blog – congratulations to John, and thanks for the great job at…

  11. Timbuk2 T-Pack iPad Bag Review

    I’ve posted a review of the Timbuk2 T-Pack iPad bag on my iPad Bag Reviews site. This is the first positive review I’ve put up, which should make a number of folks who have been bugging me requesting this happy. Right guys? 🙂 Anyways, check it out if you’re in the market for an iPad…