sweetcron

Server-side installed system for gathering all your social threads online and weaving them together into a tumblog/lifestream of some sort.

WP Calais Archive Tagger

Plugin that goes through your archives and uses a web service to automatically tag everything with semantically-rich tags.

Tips to Write a Good Bug Report

A good blog post that covers do’s and don’ts on how to write a bug report that will detail the bug properly and make it easier for the developers to get it fixed.

Reading Code: A Computer Science Curriculum

A really excellent description of how computer science/programming *should* be taught, as opposed to how it is. Uses the analogy that you’re learning a new (verbal) language, so it should be taught similarly.

Love to Travel Chile

Blog written by one of Emily’s friends about where to travel within Chile.

Assembla

Awesome shared spaces with Trac, SVN, wiki, all sorts of things. Really well thought-out developer spaces.

MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager

“A set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL Master-Master replication cluster configurations.”

MySQL Multi-Master Replication

Really nice, quick breakdown of setting up multi-master MySQL replication with slaves hanging off the masters. Slick.

Photo of Me

From WordCamp 2008.

Nine Deadly Startup Diseases—and How to Cure Them

Really good article with a list of the things that can kill a startup (and how to avoid/fix them).

Flash “Cumulus” Tag Cloud

Pretty cool, animated implementation of a tag cloud. Includes a WP plugin and details on how to generate your own from any data source.

Raphaël

A crazy JS library for working with images and graphics. Uses SVG and VML to smoothly handle rendering images and manipulating existing objects. Only supports very recent browsers.

PayCycle

Pretty extensive looking payroll service that’s completely online. Handles all/most federal and state taxes as well.

WPCandy

WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tips, and Tricks

ColorChip: Easy Color Manipulation with PHP

Sweet class that gives you the ability to do all sorts of nifty color manipulation programmatically in PHP.

jQuery plugin: Tablesorter 2.0

Create ‘add to calendar’ functionality with ASP

Quick tutorial on creating VCS files. This is ASP-specific but includes some points that are useful for any language.

fring

Integrated mobile IM and VoIP. Looks pretty sweet. Has a version for most devices, including iPhone. Also can make Skype calls.

Facelift Image Replacement

An interesting alternative to sIFR. Does the same thing (replaces headings with different fonts, rendered via an image).

iPhone Dev Center

Home page for developing for the iPhone. Lots of good resources: movies, documents, sample code, tutorials etc.

kwiry – text it before you forget it

Pretty cool mobile-to-web service for reminders, triggering actions (like adding something to Netflix queue) etc via SMS.

Essential WordPress plugins

“I’ve set up a lot of new WordPress sites lately, and I’ve come up with my own homebrew installation package. All but one of these are admin tools; I don’t have a standard list of theme additions because every site is so different.”

The Linux Virtual Server Project – Linux Server Cluster for Load Balancing

“The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system.”

MindMeister – Online Mind Mapping

MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool – only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!

Chyrp

“Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.”

WordPress Theme Generator

Visual tool that allows you to create/customize your own WP theme.

TinyMCEComments

WP plugin to add TinyMCE to your comment field so that users can post comments with WYSIWYG

TinyMCE Custom Buttons

Tutorial/details on how to create a plugin for the editor in WP. Add buttons, modify functionality etc.