
Half Dome, Yosemite

Half Dome, Yosemite
Half Dome, Yosemite
Photo by Courtney Sullivan
Yep, that’s what time (in the morning) we hit the trail-head.
Posted on Flickr 4:50 pm, July 31, 2009

Half Dome, Yosemite

Half Dome, Yosemite


Half Dome, Yosemite

Half Dome, Yosemite
WordPress hooks database
“his WordPress hooks database automatically scans each WP build for apply_filters() and do_action() to figure out exactly which hooks are available in each version and where the hooks occur.”
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
Detailed and pretty decent tutorial on how to build a WordPress theme from scratch.
Checked in at Hahn’s Hibachi.
GPS Visualizer
“GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you’ve been, plan where you’re going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagged photos, etc.).”
LDAP Schema Design
Big intro document on how to design an LDAP schema.
hkit
PHP5 parsing of hCards from HTML documents
Checked in at Automattic.
Checked in at Automattic.
microformatsDevCamp Yo!
Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin
Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin
WP plugin that allows you to try loading a Twitter avatar and/or a Gravatar for commenters on your blog.
WordPress TextMate Bundle
Awesome bundle for TextMate that covers all kinds of shortcuts to speed up WordPress development.
Incoming! – A Twitter search client for your Mac
Incoming! – A Twitter search client for your Mac
“Incoming! is a Twitter search client designed for power users and social media experts. It lets you cut through the noise and find the tweets that matter to you most — so you can follow your favorite topics or keep track of what users are saying about your company’s products.”
Hidden Features of PHP?
Awesome list of “hidden” features in PHP on StackOverflow. Really good collection of tips, pointers etc.
Reverse proxy with nginx
“In this post I hope to show how to configure nginx as a reverse proxy to a back-end CentOS 5 server running Apache.”
Cellphone Signal Extender
I might end up getting one of these. Sick of crappy reception in my apartment…
URL Shorteners
Massive collection of screenshots from URL shortening services, collected by Chris Messina
CommentBits
“Quality comment designs for your WordPress site”, $7 a pop
Checked in at Peet’s Coffee & Tea.
Checked in at Peet’s Coffee & Tea.
Checked in at The Bell Tower.
RoamBi
Data visualization system for viewing business intelligence on an iPhone. Packages up your information as a fully-interactive iPhone app and delivers it to your device. Pretty slick.
SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers
SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers
“SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.”
/packer/
Javascript packer/minify script.
hKit microformats parser for PHP5
hKit microformats parser for PHP5
“hKit is a simple toolkit for extracting common microformats from a page. The page can be presented as a string or a URL, and the result is handed back as a standard PHP array structure. hKit uses SimpleXML for parsing, and therefore requires PHP5.”
Prowl
Growl notifications sent to your iPhone.
bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce
bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce
Pretty slick implementation of MapReduce using a bash script, allowing you to pipe data in/out, redirect etc, using command-line tools.

Testing Flickr’s new auto-Tweet feature
Testing Flickr’s new auto-Tweet feature
Posted on Flickr 8:26 am, July 1, 2009 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617 = { positions : { 159 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘37.791333’, ‘-122.4175’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions ) { gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.bounds.extend( gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions ) { gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.map, position : gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.map.setCenter( gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions[159] ); });
Yapper
a Jabber/XMPP interface to Growl. Awesome.
How to use curl_multi() without blocking
How to use curl_multi() without blocking
Good post on more efficient use of curl_multi() under PHP. Much better use of resources than most examples around the place.
WordPress Console
“Once activated, the plugin adds a “Console” page to the administrator’s “Tools” menu. This page includes a JavaScript-based interactive shell which loads the WordPress environment. It allows execution of arbitrary PHP code as well as anything defined by WordPress or activated plugins. This is awesome.”
RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
“RPX handles the UI, authentication, and import of user profile and registration data for your website.” Includes OpenID, Twitter, FBC, Google, etc etc etc

Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 11:55 am, June 21, 2009

Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:45 am, June 21, 2009

Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:45 am, June 21, 2009

Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:41 am, June 21, 2009

Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Achilles, The Incredibly Cute Bulldog
Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:35 am, June 21, 2009

Transformers: They’re Coming
Transformers: They’re Coming
Ben gave us a flyover on his way back to Stockton — awesome!
Posted on Flickr 10:05 am, June 21, 2009

Transformers: They’re Coming
Transformers: They’re Coming
Ben gave us a flyover on his way back to Stockton — awesome!
Posted on Flickr 10:05 am, June 21, 2009

Full Fare
Full Fare
What? He paid his fare, he has as much right as you to be here…
Posted on Flickr 9:00 am, June 21, 2009



Vertical Challenge
Vertical Challenge
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:13 am, June 20, 2009

Vertical Challenge
Vertical Challenge
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:08 am, June 20, 2009


Vertical Challenge
Vertical Challenge
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:59 am, June 20, 2009

Chinook Cockpit
Chinook Cockpit
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:53 am, June 20, 2009 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c = { positions : { 554 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘37.5115’, ‘-122.2505’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions ) { gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.bounds.extend( gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions ) { gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.map, position : gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.map.setCenter( gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions[554] ); });

Vertical Challenge
Vertical Challenge
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:14 am, June 20, 2009

Roll-On Landing
Roll-On Landing
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:12 am, June 20, 2009

Roll-On Landing
Roll-On Landing
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 8:12 am, June 20, 2009

Vertical Challenge

Vertical Challenge

Vertical Challenge

Vertical Challenge
Vertical Challenge
San Carlos Airport, CA
- #airshow
- #challenge
- #chinook
- #helicopters
- #redbull
- #sancarlos
- #vertical
- #verticalchallenge
- #verticalchallenge09
Posted on Flickr 7:41 am, June 20, 2009

Lt. Bowman
Lt. Bowman
Robin’s Cousin Ben, the pilot of the Chinook in all of the flying pics in this set.
Posted on Flickr 7:33 am, June 20, 2009

Vertical Challenge

Red Bull Chopper


iPhone Tethering
Another set of instructions etc for tethering the iPhone on AT&T


help.BenM.at
Configuration for MMS and Tethering for iPhone on AT&T

iPhone 3.0 Hidden Features
Massive list of hidden/undocumented/nifty new things in 3.0
iPhone 3.0 Tethering
Quick instructions for how to enable tethering on iPhone 3.0




ReMate
ReMate is a TextMate plugin which can be used to disable the automatic project tree refresh when the application regains focus.
IconShock
“Professional icons, web icons and stock vista icons”
ChronoSync
“Perform File and Folder Synchronizations and Backups Like Clockwork”


