Category: Recommendations
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WAMP! BAM! POW!
This morning, I needed to troubleshoot an error that was occurring in my Feed Statistics plugin when running on a Windows machine as well as under PHP 5. Since I normally do all of my development in *nix environments, I didn’t have such an environment readily available. Having installed Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows…
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Safari on Windows: First impressions from a browser developer
I’ve been playing around with the beta release of Safari on Windows XP, and here are my initial experiences and impressions: (I don’t use Safari on the Mac all that often, so I’m not claiming that these are bugs in Safari for Windows only.) Bookmarks importing does not work. It didn’t auto-detect any of my…
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Video Tutorial: The JavaScript Programming Language
Yahoo!’s video of Douglas Crockford’s The JavaScript Programming Language lecture is definitely the best overview of JavaScript that I’ve ever seen. (The first part is embedded below, and the remaining 3 parts are linked after that.) I saw it a while back, but it’s been getting a fair amount of press in the social media…
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I will crush you and your armies.
Recommendation of the day: Warfish. It’s a basic online Risk game, and it’s tons of fun. You can get an idea of what the gameplay is like by watching this timelapse of a game. Games can last hours/days/weeks, and you can have it e-mail you when it’s your turn. It’s the perfect 3-minute break from…
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The A to Z of me
I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official…
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A gentleman and a scholar
C.K. announced yesterday his departure from Netscape. It’s really too bad; he’s been an incredible boss and an exciting person to be around. I especially enjoyed the caffeine-fueled afternoon when we created the Netscape Digg Tracker. Good times, good times… He’ll be sorely missed, but I don’t harbor any sore feeling towards him for leaving.…
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Greencode WordPress Theme
I’ve finished putting together my first WordPress theme, which I’ve named Greencode. It’s the same one I use on this site, so this is your chance to be a little more like me; go ahead and download it here.
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America’s Next Top Remodel
My wife and I recently remodeled our back entryway, partly because it needed it and partly as preparation for remodeling our kitchen. We replaced 25 year-old linoleum with laminate flooring, stripped off the textured wallpaper, painted the walls and doors (after repairing some pretty big holes and cracks hidden by the wallpaper), and put up…
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Self Defense
Derrick Comedy does some hilarious stuff. This one is worth watching for the scene transitions alone:
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TV Squad Daily: The Smart Choice
If you’re like me and don’t have time to watch a lot of TV, but you still want to be able to speak eruditely on such topics as K-Fed’s latest faux pas or Conan’s latest bon mot, check out the TV Squad Daily Vodcast. Two minutes of TV Squad Daily will leave you refreshed, informed,…
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Why I love Bittorrent
Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via the University of Minnesota’s fat pipes: 4 hours Time to download 698MB Ubuntu ISO via 37 different users using uTorrent: 21 minutes
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Validation
Just noticed from my referrer logs that Google is linking to my OPML Support for Firefox extension from its Google Reader FAQ. Neat.
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The Hand Strikes and Gives a Flower
FYI: Season 2 of The Office has arrived in my mailbox; I will be unavailable for the next 18 hours.
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Shopping Made Easy
I don’t like to shop. So when I decided that I needed a bigger desk (and a new coffee table and some PC133 SDRAM – email me if you’ve got extra), I did what lazy shoppers do – I hit up CraigsList. It turns out that since I live within a half hour of a…