Login LockDown

“records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range.”

Designing Search Checklist

A good little checklist of things to remember/take into account when designing what a search results page should look like/include.

CodeIgniter – Open source PHP web application framework

A lightweight framework for PHP that might be handy in developing mid-sized projects that aren’t WordPress-friendly or where WP is overkill.

Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

Interesting presentation looking at XMPP and how to use it to build web services.

Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP

“In this tutorial we’ll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.”

TheBusinessClass.net

Global network of “executive” style co-working facilities.

Facebook Connect Documentation

Official docs for FB Connect. Allows for external sites to “connect” to FB accounts and pull down profile information, pics etc.

COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes

Awesome site with design inspiration. Colors, palettes and background patterns galore!

Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers?

Good post on RWW about what a Community Manager is, what they do, and who needs them.

FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin – Development on a Shoestring

Currently the best available FriendFeed plugin for displaying comments on your blog. Doesn’t integrate into your comments system tho.

MailPress

Powerful WP plugin for sending HTML and plain text emails via WP.

Things – task management on the Mac

Pretty nifty GTD app for Macs. Very lightweight and flexible. Nice.

50 Must-Read Resources For Incredible Web Design

HeatMapAPI.com

“Heat maps let users quickly visualize density of locations. Some maps will show points, but being able to understand the density of those points makes it much easier to see, especially when using colors.”

jQuery Sparklines

Sexy sparklines, created using jQuery. Very nice.

Events Manager plugin for WP

New plugin for WP. Nice and simple, stores events in a separate table and includes Google Map integration.

Modified SimpleLife Lifestreaming Plugin

Ties together a series of services (Flickr, delicious, etc) and presents them all as a unified stream of what you’re doing online.

Lifestream Blog

Blog about HTFS-style streams of information and organization.

10gen

“10gen is a new platform-as-a-service technology designed to help developers quickly and easily build dynamic, scalable, mission critical web sites and applications.”

The Three Stages of Language Fluency

Interesting (long) article on the stages of developing language fluency. Decent framework for learning a new language.

ClickBank

Affiliate marketing, apparently with up to 75% commissions on digital product sales.

Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.” All sorts of options like font, color, layout etc. Really beautiful results.

Open Proxy List

Web interface to look up an international proxy so you can appear as if you’re still in the US.

Don’t call me gringa

Emily’s blog about life in Chile.

5 Pixel Popping Techniques

Some cool, easy effects that can be added to a design to make it pop a bit more.

WordPress Function List

Awesome reference for WP theme functions.

Nunomad – work abroad, travel wear, laptops, ebook, new nomads

Work while traveling | Laptop Hobo

syntaxhighlighter – Google Code

“SyntaxHighlighter is here to help a developer/coder to post code snippets online with ease and have it look pretty. It’s 100% Java Script based and it doesn’t care what you have on your server.”

iPhone Web Goodies: Drag and Drop with Touch, Resize and Rotate with Gestures

Sexy interaction techniques via JS for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Babbel – Learn Languages Online :: Spanish | French | German | Italian | English

Fun looking site to learn some Spanish perhaps.

jgrowl : stanlemon.net

jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works.

Vagabondish | The Travelzine for Today’s Vagabond

Good blog with guest posts etc for the “modern traveler”

Location Independent Living | Live and Work From Anywhere You Choose

Blog from a couple who call themselves LIPs (location independent professionals). Somewhat Tim Ferriss-ish, but continuing to work, rather than automating it.

Bash Cheat Sheet | psycho$hell

List of useful stuff for Bash scripting (checking if files exist, etc etc)

Joestump’s Slidespace (SlideShare is the best place to share powerpoint presentations)

Joe Stump (from Digg.com) with some slideshows on different PHP dev techniques etc.

Innovation Creators

Rod Boothby from Joyent’s “personal” blog.

PortenioStylee Apartments

Apartments in Buenos Aires. Decent range around the mid-price level.

Gnip: Making data portability suck less.

Really interesting sounding project where they’re aiming to become like a ping-o-matic for social data.

DEFENSA PERSONAL | Bienvenidos a nuestro sitio

Krav Maga in Buenos Aires

one hundred push ups

Interesting, simple strength training program based on completing 100 pushups by week 6.

Buenos Aires Daily

Cool photoblog of Buenos Aires, written by a French girl who lived in SF for 6 years.

Buenos Aires Argentina Guide | Reviews of all things Buenos Aires City

Decent guide on some things in Buenos Aires from an English guy who lives there and gives walking tours now.

PhoneTag

Convert your voicemails and receive them as email.

SPF Shirts, Sun Protection Clothes – Coolibar Inc.

Shirt that looks almost formal, but it’s an awesome sun-proof travel shirt.

http://svn.wp-plugins.org/memcached/trunk/object-cache.php

“Memcached backend for the WP Object Cache.”

Tempo – Time Tracking

Pretty impressive web-based time-tracking tool. Integrates with BaseCamp and FreshBooks to cover the entire spectrum of requirements.