Ben Folds @ The Warfield
Ben Folds, playing at the Warfield in San Francisco, 2008-11-13
Posted on Flickr 7:30 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.
“Products and Tools for Creative Professionals”. Includes the “Action Method” notebooks etc. Pretty cool for keeping your ideas/actions organized.
” Use your iPhone as a Wireless Router for your PC/Mac”
“Santiago’s English Language Entertainment and Nightlife Magazine”
Publish the posts showing up in a search Twitter search feed directly to a Campfire chat room.



Then heading to the airport and off to Buenos Aires.
Posted on Flickr 4:36 am, October 18, 2008

Then heading to the airport and off to Buenos Aires.
Posted on Flickr 4:35 am, October 18, 2008

Then heading to the airport and off to Buenos Aires.
Posted on Flickr 4:34 am, October 18, 2008
Plugin that provides an alternate/configurable version of your WP content for printing.

WordPress plugin that keeps track of login attempts and failures. Accessed via wp-admin.

CSS Image Alignment Suggestion
Good tip from @factoryjoe (Chris Messina) for a standardized set of image-in-content handling CSS classes.
Collaboration E-mails Plugin for WordPress MU
Really cool work-flow management plugin for WP (and WPMU) that is best for multi-author blogs.
Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches
Really good list of fixes for problems. Lots of jQuery examples (of course).

I feel kinda sorry for this little car.
Posted on Flickr 12:27 pm, October 11, 2008


Nice site with simple, clear points/suggestions for being a sysadmin (of any kind really, it’s very “generalized”).


This is Will, one of the sushi chef’s at Nara Sushi (Polk/California St). He just “skinned” a cucumber in one big long strip.
Posted on Flickr 5:16 pm, October 6, 2008

First photo after his return. He’d just ridden over 6,000 miles!
Posted on Flickr 12:35 pm, October 6, 2008
jQuery-based menu that automatically detects feed links in your page and offers them via a dynamic subscription menu.
“The goal of Portable Contacts is to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web.”
Putting XRDS-Simple in Context
“XRDS-Simple is a protocol for service discovery.” It ties in with OpenID and other open standards to start providing the foundations of DiSo and other distributed identity systems.
DVD to MPEG-4 conversion software with all sorts of features and tools.
Hardcore API/system for mass data processing using EC2 via custom-defined “workflows” and “units of work”. Looks really interesting.

Japanese tattoo exhibit/special show, part of the MATCHA series at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Posted on Flickr 4:20 pm, October 2, 2008

Japanese tattoo exhibit/special show, part of the MATCHA series at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Posted on Flickr 4:10 pm, October 2, 2008