Traditional Style (Ouch!)
Japanese tattoo exhibit/special show, part of the MATCHA series at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Posted on Flickr 4:06 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 4:06 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 4:01 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 3:59 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 3:57 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 3:12 pm, October 2, 2008
Firebug plugin for shifting symfony debug info into Firebug.

Japanese tattoo exhibit/special show, part of the MATCHA series at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
Posted on Flickr 3:11 pm, October 2, 2008
symfony custom Criteria object
Using a custom Criteria object in symfony.


Interesting bridge to the physical world of social networking. Allows you to easily connect with people in RL and have them automatically managed within your online social networks as well. Supports profiles for business/personal etc.
Hardcore WordPress theme package that takes Sandbox and goes to the extreme. Extends the auto-selection system and gives all sorts of options including actions and filters. Pretty impressive.
Upcoming Fun, Cheap stuff in SF
Excellent calendar of fun and cheap events/happenings in SF and the Bay Area. Very comprehensive.
Enterprise Microsharing Matrix
Analysis of 15 microsharing (a la Twitter) tools aimed at the enterprise. Basis of DiscoTool?
My new, centralized OpenID and central identity hub, care of the badass Chi.mp

Seems like someone deployed their staging environment? :-/
Posted on Flickr 9:20 am, September 25, 2008
Versions – Mac Subversion Client (SVN)
“Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac. Whether you’re a hardcore Subversion user or new to version control systems, Versions will help streamline your workflow.”
Pretty cool “programmatic” implementation of CSS. Allows for more intuitive nesting of elements, use of variables/constants and all sorts of other cool things.
Shows clocks and day/night around the world where Mashable has people working.
Cool map showing day/night on a Google Map. This, combined with an easier way to get world times would be pretty sweet.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
Complete, onlie versions of Stanford’s Computer Science degrees.
Fancy new Mac Text Editor. Might provide some sort of competition for TextEdit? Nah.
Enterprise Twitter.
Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail.
“Pimsleur courses help people who need to speak another language quickly. Our courses took 40 years to develop and are now used by the FBI, CIA, and business professionals everywhere.”
PHP/jQuery version of the upload/crop/thumbnail design pattern.
“Parallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport.”
Cool little utility to help build up the Criteria required to generate a specific SQL statement using Propel/symfony
Good sleep, good learning, good life
Extensive article with all sorts of information about getting better sleep and how sleep affects learning/intelligence.
Collection: [Design Solutions]
Awesome collection of screenshots of design patterns and solutions to all sorts of standard elements in web design (signup forms, About Us page, etc etc)
Awesome collection of cheat sheets for all sorts of tech.
10 Principles of the PHP Masters
Good list of tips and principles from some big-time PHP folks (including Matt M).
“Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.”
Interesting sounding JS-based development framework for making true web applications.
“Synchronize Google Calendar and Apple iCal. Share calendars between multiple Macs. Share calendars with your coworkers, family, and friends. And while you’re at it, connect Google Calendar to your iPhone, iPod, and other devices.”
How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two)
Excellent suggestions/tips from Jason Calcanis about how to present a demo for a startup. Some really solid advice on general presenting, and specifically on demoing a product/shooting for VC.
Get access to the really valuable data in startups, people etc in the tech/web/web 2.0 space via API.
“Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon’s EC2.”

Testing out snaptweet
Posted on Flickr 7:38 pm, August 31, 2008
All known cheat sheets for symfony. Handy as quick references when you know roughly what you’re looking for, or want a visual representation of some concepts.