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.

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.

The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.

Could this actually be the holy grail finally? Also has “blog style”, 2 col left, 2 col right, 2 col double, 1 col full and stacked layouts.

Reader Pick: 12 Excellent Websites to Follow if You’re into Web Design – Six Revisions

List of great design/CSS/web dev sites to keep track of.

30+ Tools For Cheap and Convenient Air Travel | Mashable! – The Social Networking Blog

Good set of tools for organizing and finding cheap travel.

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

Great collection of CSS fixes for all sorts of layout/browser issues.

WordPress Editor Extender | The Book and the Cover

Plugin to bring back the extended/advanced buttons on the editor in WordPress.

WP-Crontrol « scompt.com

Pluging for harnessing the power of WP’s internal cron-ish system.

The Road (Oprah’s Book Club): Cormac McCarthy: Books

“Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we’ve read this year.”

Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life: Stewart D. Friedman: Books

“Now more than ever, your success as a leader isn’t just about being a great business person. You’ve got to be a great person, performing well in all domains of your life — your work, your home, your community, and your private self.”

13+ Fantastic Tools For Knowing How They’re Doing It

Great collection of tools and tips to figure out performance of competitors/websites. Looks at SEO, feed performance, links etc.

FlickrBooth

“FlickrBooth is a simple little plugin for Apple’s Photo Booth. Just install, follow the setup instructions, and snap away!”

PackRat

“Packrat is a desktop client for 37signals’ Backpack web application. Packrat lets you use your Backpack data when you’re offline.”

Neoformix – Discovering and Illustrating Patterns in Data

Impressive site with all sorts of information visualization techniques and examples. Pretty awesome stuff.

WHAT THE FUCK DO I NEED TO KNOW

Classy. This guy is finding out what I need to know, so I don’t have to.

Twitterbotting.com: a site about Twitterbots or Twitter Bots

“This is a quick info site to help folks get info about creating new Twitterbots. If you are interested in making a Twitterbot”

Internet Marketing Toolbox

Collection of marketing tools from Fred.

Convert XHTML/CSS To WordPress

Nice basics intro on how to convert an XHTML page/template into a WordPress theme.