poEdit Plural Forms

The strings required to configure poEdit to handle plurals in all sorts of languages

PHP OpenID Library

“The PHP OpenID library lets you enable OpenID authentication on sites built using PHP. It features the OpenID consumer, Store implementations, and an OpenID server.”

Paracord Survival Bracelet

How to make a bracelet out of paracord that contains around 3m of cord.

HyperMac External MacBook Power

“Power your MacBook for up to 34 hours HyperMac External Battery for MacBook comes in 4 different sizes (60/100/150/222Wh)”

Bantam

Allows you to set up an internal social network that integrates functionality from tools like Twitter and BaseCamp/Highrise. Includes task tracking and a lot of “live updates” type stuff.

Zopim Live Chat

Pretty decent “live chat” IM widget to add to pages for bumping up sales etc. Works quite nicely.

A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site

Howto/tutorial from Plaxo on how to OpenID-enable your website. Includes DB schema details and all.

CodeMirror: In-browser code editing

“CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar.” Better option than CodePress?

A Closer Look at CSS Frameworks

by Christian Montoya, christianmontoya.com. Good comparison matrix of the major CSS frameworks including number of contributors, documentation, etc.

9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Networking Site

Free and open options for setting up at least the framework of a community site.

Real World Web: Performance & Scalability

Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.

Petabytes on a budget

“How to build cheap cloud storage”. Amazing details of a backup company that custom-builds their own storage “pods” to store massive amounts of data relatively cheaply.

Baseline

“Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick way to prototype a website and grew up to become a full typographic framework for the web using “real” baseline grid as it’s foundation.”

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PHP Speedy

“PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:”

Superfeedr

“Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers”

YDN Design Pattern Library

“A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.”

Email Address to URL Translation

“An open protocol to allow standard email addresses to be transformed into URLs for services like OpenID.”

Detecting Client Side Time Zone Offset Via Javascript

Using JS to detect the timezone setting of a user so that you can store everything in UTC and just adjust based on that, client-side.

HookPress

“Webhooks are a simple paradigm for developing instant notifications and mashups based on simple HTTP requests. With HookPress you can set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when certain WordPress actions occur.”

WTFPL

“Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License” – I love this; why is it so hard to give something away?

Translate a Plugin

How to translate a WordPress plugin using poEdit.

TightURL Project Page

“TightURL takes a very long URL as input, and returns a very short URL within the TightURL namespace.”

onPoint Tactical

“Springing from the legendary scouting, tracking, wilderness survival skills of Apache warriors, onPoint Tactical offers superior training for modern-day professionals and civilians who require or desire advanced outdoor skill sets to survive and thrive in today’s demanding world.”

iCal, RSSCal etc

This guy has written all sorts of handy PHP code for dealing with iCal etc. Handles most calendar-based feed information, plus some neat tools.

PDFpen

“Edit PDFs easily with PDFpen! Add text, images and signatures. Make corrections. Fill out PDF forms. Merge, delete and reorder pages.”

Air Brokers International, Inc.

Air travel agency based here in SF. Specialize in RTW tickets and multi-stop itineraries.

The Art of Nonconformity

Awesome blog with “unconventional strategies for life, work and travel”

Hedgehog Leatherworks

Makers of fine leather knife sheaths and a great source of survivalist technique info, videos, etc.

Product Planner

“View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More.”

URL Shorteners

A comparison matrix between a bunch of the more popular URL shortening services.

Screenjelly

“Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email.”

Half Dome Hike Yosemite Park

This is someone else’s EveryTrail log of what seems to be the same hike we did at Half Dome.

DIVINE official website

A tool that takes PSDs and converts them directly into WordPress themes. PC only.