Jet Stream
Taken in Potrero, SF.
Posted on Flickr 2:00 pm, December 19, 2008


Interesting tool that claims to be able to take a PSD and convert it into CSS/XHTML, including jQuery for some features and do it all, automatically.






OpenID authentication for sfGuardPlugin
sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin
sfPropelTextOutputBehaviorPlugin is a symfony plugin that converts objects to different output formats: XML, JSON
sfPropelActAsTaggableBehaviorPlugin
This behavior permits to attach tags to Propel objects. It includes tag-clouds generation and helpers to display these clouds.
sfPropelActAsSluggableBehaviorPlugin
This sfPropelActAsSluggableBehavior plugin that automates the generation of ‘slugs’ based on the return value of a model method.
sfPropelActAsSignableBehaviorPlugin
Adds support for “created_by”, “updated_by” and “deleted_by” columns in your model




Nokia page with details on how to sync Nokia phones via Apple’s iSync app on Macs.


Gallery/showcase of cool design and functionality for mobile devices. Very nice.

Interesting jQuery plugin that allows you to quickly and easily build prototype pages that include different “states” (logged in/not, etc) and add notes. Provides a simple, toggle-based UI to access all elements on a single page and cookie based tracking of your selected state across pages.
Really cool app that turns photos into old-style Polaroid photos. Has a very funky interface/UI where you wait for the photo to develop and then stop it at a certain moment, so you always get different outputs.
77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better
Breakdown of techniques, approaches etc that can help you learn things more effectively.
WP plugin to display the album artwork for recent tracks etc from Last.fm on your site. Also available as a sweetcron plugin/hack.
“A fast, powerful PHP toolkit for building web applications with Amazon Web Services.” Gives you a standardized toolkit to access all the functionality of the APIs for managing and working with AWS.
A new, interesting way of managing/capturing ideas within an organization. Basically an internal Digg for ideas/suggestions.
Very cool tool that allows you to find pictures on Flickr by clicking color swatches. Based off 10 million of the most interesting pictures that are Creative Commons licensed.
15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned
Good collection of some more advanced (and some not so) CSS tricks and techniques.
Build Scalable Web 2.0 Sites with Ubuntu, Symfony, and Lighttpd
Pretty good article covering the installation and set up of the entire stack, specifically targeted at symfony and performance.


Neat, lightweight online invitations system.
100+ More Ways to Organize Your Life
Nice list of todo list, organization, gtd, file management etc tools for organizing pretty much everything.
Social code snippet repository.
Pretty slick-looking time-tracking web-app. Starts at $24 a month though!
“web design and development articles and tutorials for advent”
Awesome matrix showing which fonts are installed on which OSs, with which software etc etc.

“Soocial provides a one address book solution to contact management. No matter where you add or change a contact, it will be changed in your other connected devices or web applications.”
Cool plugin for Adium that requires people to answer a challenge question before their message is delivered to you (if they’re not already on your contact list). Should block most IM-Spam.
Good chart showing fonts common between platforms and their font-family.

Taken from finance.google.com on 2008-11-20
Posted on Flickr 9:10 am, November 20, 2008
Airport Wireless Internet Access Guide
Comprehensive list of airports that have wifi including which ones are free, paid, etc.
Interesting online app to supplement your email and help with routing important stuff directly to you via SMS etc. Relies on people being able to prioritize for you though.
A heavily modified “base” theme for WordPress which adds all sorts of granular control and powerful features. Built by Crowd Favorite (Alex King).
Plugin for jQuery that handles rounding corners via JS (with anti-aliasing) for browsers that don’t have their own extensions available for it.

That’s the first time I’ve seen that one. Cool.
Posted on Flickr 10:50 am, November 14, 2008

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 8:08 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 7:53 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 7:49 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 7:30 pm, November 13, 2008
Changing MySQL FULLTEXT word length
Details on how to reduce (or increase) the minimum length of a word that MySQL’s FULLTEXT index type will recognize.

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 6:50 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 6:14 pm, November 13, 2008

Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 6:14 pm, November 13, 2008
Pretty funky mockups application that allows you to quickly create a mock of an application or website using heaps of “hand-drawn” widgets.




“Extract images from PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and other Files on Mac OS X”
Online proof/mock management app. Allows you to collaboratively review visuals and approve/deny them for production.
Project manager of a company that seems to specialize/have a number of symfony developers available.
PSD to WordPress Theme Coding.

Suckerfish menu system implemented in jQuery
Nice website for finding/rating iPhone apps. Apparently built using WordPress.





And he didn’t actually snort it
Posted on Flickr 10:33 pm, October 31, 2008





Awesome outfit – she even had the fake tattoos and everything.
Posted on Flickr 8:06 pm, October 31, 2008


Stanford’s FREE iPhone programming online class
“Stanford have a new online class on iPhone Programming using Cocoa Touch. You will need to have an Intel-based Macintosh in order to take this class. You will need to install the iPhone SDK too.”






My halloween outfit. Unfortunately I was missing the mullet wig, so I really wasn’t all there.
Posted on Flickr 2:57 pm, October 31, 2008
Handy diagram by Andy, showing the stack of includes/defines etc that power most of WP.
Site that parses the WP code and shows you all the filters, actions, include/require etc going on for certain types of requests.
WordPress themes for developers
Good list of well-built themes with developers/customization in mind.
“Simple helper for embeding flash objects using Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO).” Makes it easy to inject a Flash file into your page without having to do all the manual tags.
Embedded fonts in web pages using a crazy combination of JS, CSS and some other things. Impressive.

I was enjoying the sun in La Fayette park, but this building stole it eventually.
Posted on Flickr 12:38 pm, October 25, 2008

“UPS, FedEx, DHL, and USPS Package Tracking”, with fancy maps and stuff. Very nicely implemented.
Simple hosted Issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management software. SVN integration, email management etc. Written in Ruby on Rails and looks pretty cool.