Archive for July, 2005

Dear Safari RSS team, Updated 2005/08/01 with thoughts on Flagged vs. Star Ratings I've been using your cool RSS aggregator for a while now, and while it's really quite good, there are a couple of things you could do to make it really kick ass. Have a "new items only" view - rather than just sorting by... »

Keeping the "too hot to go outside, so getting trivial tasks cleaned up" theme for today, I finally got around to updating the iPodder.org Educational Directory - adding 18 new feeds. Sorry for the delay - a couple months on some of them - and I'm hoping most/all will find their ways into the iTunes... »

The tabs in the header of this site have been bugging me for months - just never enough to prompt me to do anything about it. For now, I've just moved them to the top of the banner, so they don't fight with the image description on the right side. I've also added 8 more... »

For the Mavericks project, I get to manually "fix" several large xml documents that are spit out of a couple of piped legacy databases and content management systems. Each time a file is exported, it is slightly different, and after the file is handed off to me I get to go in and manually... »

I just went to the Technorati page for Merlot2005, hoping to get a big heaping spoonful of Merlot conference blogging. Instead, I was greeted by this: WTF? So, if Alan doesn't go to a conference, nobody knows to use a shared tag to blog about it? Why wouldn't the Merlot conference organizers be pimping the tag... »

If you're running WordPress, run - don't walk - and install Spam Karma 2. Best spam killer I've ever seen. And it's transparent - no Captchas or false-turing-test-attempts involved at all. It's a work of art. Shared blacklists. Regular expression matching for blocked comments/trackbacks. And way more. And, if you're running any PHP website (including... »

The North American Solar Challenge finished today (official photos from entire race), with the finish line and reception area at the University of Calgary. The team from the U of C finished to cheers of hundreds (but I couldn't see because I was stuck in a huge line for a free BBQ burger...) Lots of... »

The Pachyderm programming team is starting an experiment in live, online feedback for Beta3. If you're working on authoring a presentation in Pachyderm 2.0 Beta 3, it might be a good idea to keep this AIM chat group (pachydermbeta3) open so we can send notices/warnings about changes to the beta. I'll try to keep the... »

I'm plugging away at authoring the Mavericks online exhibit, using the current Beta3 snapshot of Pachyderm 2.0. The content is basically all prewritten, and structured into screens with links to assets etc... So the hard part has been done long before the content gets to me to implement. The basic workflow we're going with right... »

Popularity Contest Plugin by Alex King is like a stats plugin on steroids. Not the cheap horse steroids, but some kind of high-end East European Gymnast steroids. It breaks down all posts/categories/dates/comments/trackbacks on your entire WP blog, and ranks them relative to each other. Handy for telling at a glance where the most "interesting" (at... »