The word “lifestreaming” feels overly broad and I do a mental eye roll every time I say it, but I’ll use it for now for the sake of expediency. So I’ve been using Flickr and Delicious forever and Twitter for a while and Google Reader and all of these services are great and let me [...]

I just released a new plugin for WordPress for adding footnotes (well, endnotes really) to posts. You can check it out and download it from here: Footnotes Plugin. Also, I’ve written a couple of other plugins you may be interested in.

Received my copy today of the Pro Web 2.0 Mashups book I did the technical review for. Always neat to see something you’ve worked on become real. Also, I hate writing bios like this.

I just finished technical review on a new book due out next month from Apress called Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services. (A technical reviewer basically just makes sure all of the examples work and that the technical stuff the author writes is correct and provides evaluations of the text from a [...]

I’ve just finished swapping out the Javascript library used on BigHugeLabs.com from Prototype/Script.aculo.us (P+S) to MooTools and I thought I’d share my reasons as well as my impressions for the benefit of any other developers thinking of following a similar path.

Dear Rookie Web Developer, I had the task recently of taking over a project from a group of developers (who shall remain nameless) who were unable to finish it. When I saw what they had written, I could see why. The project had clearly been assigned to inexperienced, junior-level developers who did not have the [...]

I went to the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 “Launch Event” at the local convention center last week. It was pretty typical for these types of events. Lots of marketing in the guise of technical product demonstrations and the promise of a free lunch. The theme was “rock and roll.” The keynote ended with two 30 [...]

I just released a plugin for Gaim 1.0.2 that blocks arbitrary instant messages based on a set of filters that you can define. I created it to block the extremely annoying “AOL System Msg: Your screen name (x) is now signed into AOL(R) Instant Messenger(TM) in 2 locations.” You can download it from the Gaim [...]

This is a message I sent to the WordPress hackers mailing list today: Subject: New(?) anti-spam technique I’ve seen an increase in comment spam the last couple of days. This particular species looks a lot like legitimate comments in that it isn’t riddled with links, the comment text is not advertising, and it isn’t anonymous. [...]

I’ve created a plugin called Word Statistics for WordPress 1.2 2.0 that displays readability statistics on the post editing screen whenever a post is edited or saved (and you continue editing). The plugin also provides similar functionality to the MovableType plugin MTWordStats. I’ve never used MT or tried the MTWordStats plugin so I can’t really [...]