I’ve been using a couple of bash scripts for a while to manage my password collection (over 100) and I thought I’d share them since I find them very useful. They’re BSD licensed so you can do whatever you want with the code. Click here to get ‘em.

In the spirit of Dive Into Mark’s list… Guitar Noise, an awesome blog for guitar players of all levels, especially this section for beginners. An online metronome, because I don’t have an offline metronome. Guake, which lets me access my terminal almost as fast as I can think. Frati Gelato Cafe in downtown Fullerton. rdiff-backup, [...]

So, that app I wrote, Writer (“The Internet Typewriter”), was published today by the CNET staff at Download.com. Very cool. I’m now one step closer to taking over the world: Create awesome web app. Get published at Download.com. ? Profit! If only I could figure out step three.

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.

I’m just Mr. Software lately. Every morning my kids ask me about the weather so they can get dressed. This is my first attempt at building a simplified weather forecast page for them. It’s the weather report for today and tomorrow in a kid-friendly format. Once you’ve got it bookmarked, your kids are just one-click [...]

I’ve been searching for the “perfect” Flickr photo uploader for a long time so I finally broke down and decided to write it. Of course, my idea of perfect may be different than yours. (I am but a simple caveman programmer.) A video demonstration of version 1.0 along with downloads in various formats are available. [...]

Update: Thanks for your help, everybody. No more testers needed. I’ll be releasing it soon. Over the weekend I created a photo uploader for Linux, specifically for Gnome desktop users: I’m looking for some people who can install and try the package out before I release it publicly. Ideally I’d like several people to run [...]

I’ve just rolled out an API for the Big Huge Thesaurus. Need synonyms? Give the free API a try.

DBDesigner 4 “DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment.” Looks very robust. One of the few tools that supports reverse engineering. MySQL Workbench “MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL. It is the highly anticipated successor [...]

Last November, after around 25 years of computing, finally, I setup a reliable, automatic backup system for all of my important files, documents, photos, and music. And today I needed it (timing, eh?). A bunch of important files took collateral damage from a program I was writing. And I almost panicked. But then the backup [...]