“Apache CouchDB is a document-oriented database that can be queried and indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution.”

“Tahoe-LAFS is a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant key-value store.”

Conference exploring all the technologies relating to cloud-based computing, mash-ups etc. Looks at distributed APIs and data-sources and how to mash them all together.

“An easy-to-use SSH tunnel manager built specifically for the Mac.”

The new home of the coreylib XML parsing/manipulation library. For working with XML-based, REST APIs. Pretty slick.

Some guy created his own XML format for processing emails in some sort of data pipeline. Could be useful within HTFS.

Pretty accessible looking place to potentially go backpack-camping over in East Bay.

Image-based presence indicators for AIM, MySpace, GTalk, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, ICQ.

Really well-made site with the basics of Indonesian Bahasa, including audio for pronunciation.

Remote Patrol is a full featured professionally designed and developed camera surveillance program for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

“SecuritySpy is a multi-camera video surveillance application for the Macintosh.”

“QuickCursor allows you to edit text from any application in your favorite text editor*.”

Awesome collection of well-made plugins for jQuery to handle lots of common UI tasks.

Quick tutorial from Andrew on how a theme can add its own custom CSS into the visual editor to make it more WYSIWYG. Also touches on adding custom classes to the Styles menu.

Disaster preparedness training from the fire department. Do it.

iPhone compatible gloves.

URL tricks to get at RSS feeds from various parts of Facebook

“Unless you’re enrolled at a top university or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the …

Package Tracking UPS USPS FedEx DHL w/ Google Maps.

Short tutorial with example code (PHP) on using Twitter’s OAuth API.

Best collection of videos, audio and slides from all the sessions at WordCampNYC. Includes my Ignite session on IntenseDebate

Interesting twist on a todo list manager. Splits tasks horizontally by day, includes a “someday” section.

Good collection of training videos showing a variety of Krav Maga techniques (self defense and combatives).

Neat plugin that allows you to position things on a “vertical” grid rather than a “horizontal” one, so that all your blocks take up less vertical space and mesh up better.

“Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.”

Document and receipt scanning software for Mac. Includes OCR on receipts for expense reports and a bunch of other cool features.

Script that allows you to search/replace values in your WP database, even within serialized strings.

Huge list of WordPress tips, with code samples where appropriate.

Extensive tutorial on tuning PHP for performance on the system level (not just coding tips).

An awesome plugin for TextMate that gives you a really powerful “abbreviation” syntax for writing blocks of HTML and CSS really quickly.

A web service for testing web services. Performs HTTP requests and gives you the full request/response. Allows you to save requests etc

Plugin to add a simple JSON-based API to a WordPress installation. Allows for all sorts of potential AJAX loveliness.

“Notify.io is your global web notification system. Real-time notifications of events from the web, under your control.” Hooks into Growl and other notification systems, accepts triggers via Web Hooks and Comet Stream

The anatomy of beautiful HTML. Covers all the guidelines and concepts that add up to good HTML coding.

Extensive geo data for place names and significant locations around the world. Data files provided by Yahoo with a Creative Commons license

“Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it will run fast on browsers’ JavaScript …

Chris Messina/Jyri Engestrom’s great manifesto of the people-centric/real-time web, based on portable identity and open standards.

Good instructions (that acutally work!) with screenshots for getting a Microsoft VPC image running on VirtualBox.

Images provided by MS for testing compatibility with IE8 etc. Includes XP and Vista currently, with IE6-8. Compatible with VirtualBox with some tinkering.

Using the freely available images provided by Microsoft for testing purposes, just getting them to work in VirtualBox rather than Virtual PC.

Could this finally be what I’ve been looking for? A generic XML-parsing library, written in PHP, which handles namespaces and attributes reasonably elegantly?

“coreylib is a PHP library for accessing Web service APIs like Twitter. You can use coreylib to explore APIs, cache their content, create mash-ups, and style the output.”

Post about how Google pays people to use their products/platforms through revshare deals, turning it into a revenue generator (not a cost) to choose Google over a competitor.

Awesome website with all sorts of information on spending time in Chile, including Spanish classes and accomodation.

Awesome manbag from Maxpedition. Single-shoulder carry, loads of space, and will work for concealed weapon carry as well if you’re into that kind of thing.

“Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain …

Writeup from Balsamiq on the tools they use in the daily operation of their technology-heavy startup.

“PHP.JS is an open source project in which we try to port PHP functions to JavaScript. By including the PHP.JS library in your own projects, you can use your favorite PHP functions client-side.”

UX guy from Drupal that I spoke a lot with at GSoC Mentor’s Summit, 2009.

Pretty awesome looking news aggregator based on Drupal.

From Anderson Cooper

“The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on user-centric identity and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong …

“This page holds ideas for people who maintain or build websites on things they can do now to support Data Portability.”

Laptop screen protector cloths and accessories.

“Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you’re working on a document, and don’t want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all …

Pretty slick implementation of a standalone biometric door lock. Battery powered, 99 users, fingerprint scan.

Includes link to OneWorld members as well. Frequent Flier programs so you can pick the right airline to get the best grouping of points.

Set of very nicely-designed and relatively consistent social media icons. Perfect for lifestreams/activity streams.

“Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We’ve filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints.”

Neat blog written by a woman in San Francisco. All sorts of interesting scientific approaches to eating well and living a more healthy lifestyle.

Cool site that gives you a 1-screen summary of all the details you often need to provide tech-support to someone (browser/OS/resolution/etc)

Online version of the classic editing/grammar/writing manual.

“HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles”

Excellent list of resources/links/specs relating to Atom and AtomPub.

Awesome backpack from 5.11 Tactical. Seems to be about the best all-rounder you can find.

Discussion document for the next evolution of the web, as a network of connections. In this new model, the connections matter more than the objects being connected.

Amazing designer with some awesome sketch-work, infographics and more.

A real recipe for Damper, the native Australian/Aborigine bread.

“Swift, Secure, and Small PHP 5 Framework”

Awesome article on the non-design-pattern, non-over-architecting approach to software development. It’s all about getting shit done, and shipping product.

“a case study in using HTML5’s sectioning elements”, by Edward O’Connor

This segment of the recorded stream from WCPH covers my session, called Meet The Family.

Here’s a video of me eating balut in Manila. Balut is a fertilized duck egg, which is hardboiled after (in our case) 14 or 15 days.

Great post with some very clear guidelines on designing faceted search filters.

“Background images make pages look good, but also make them slower. Each background image is an extra HTTP request. There’s a fix: combine background images into a CSS sprite. But creating sprites is hard, requiring arcane knowledge and …

“Browserscope is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers.”

Hit this page to get a series of phonetically-friendly random passwords.

Convert Office documents from DOCX back to DOC

The strings required to configure poEdit to handle plurals in all sorts of languages

“The PHP OpenID library lets you enable OpenID authentication on sites built using PHP. It features the OpenID consumer, Store implementations, and an OpenID server.”

How to make a bracelet out of paracord that contains around 3m of cord.

“Power your MacBook for up to 34 hours HyperMac External Battery for MacBook comes in 4 different sizes (60/100/150/222Wh)”

Allows you to set up an internal social network that integrates functionality from tools like Twitter and BaseCamp/Highrise. Includes task tracking and a lot of “live updates” type stuff.

Pretty decent “live chat” IM widget to add to pages for bumping up sales etc. Works quite nicely.

Howto/tutorial from Plaxo on how to OpenID-enable your website. Includes DB schema details and all.

“CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar.” Better option than CodePress?

by Christian Montoya, christianmontoya.com. Good comparison matrix of the major CSS frameworks including number of contributors, documentation, etc.

Free and open options for setting up at least the framework of a community site.

Awesome (and very long) slideshow on all sorts of scalability and performance techniques for massive websites/services.

“How to build cheap cloud storage”. Amazing details of a backup company that custom-builds their own storage “pods” to store massive amounts of data relatively cheaply.

“Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — …

“PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:”

“Real-time feed parsing in the cloud for web-developers”

“A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.”

“An open protocol to allow standard email addresses to be transformed into URLs for services like OpenID.”

Using JS to detect the timezone setting of a user so that you can store everything in UTC and just adjust based on that, client-side.

“Webhooks are a simple paradigm for developing instant notifications and mashups based on simple HTTP requests. With HookPress you can set up webhooks so that a specified URL (a public service or something you set up) is requested when …

“Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License” – I love this; why is it so hard to give something away?

How to translate a WordPress plugin using poEdit.

“TightURL takes a very long URL as input, and returns a very short URL within the TightURL namespace.”