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Upgrading Wordpress… Sorry If It’s A Mess

Math — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:35:28 +0000

See title.

UPDATE
Done! 2.7 update went surprisingly smoothly, except that my Nextlifx plugin no longer works. But that’s okay… I’ve been thinking about rolling my own for a while now. This is a good excuse.

Google Chrome = Pretty Decent

Math — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:49:08 +0000

I’m really digging Google’s new web browser,
Chrome. For pure web surfing, it’s a fantastic experience–the “most
visited sites” and “recent searches” on the default homepage are a
brilliant feature, load times are quick, and the viewport is incredibly
big.

I can’t possibly use Chrome for development though; Firefox
lets me use all kinds of handy plugins that are now essential to my
workflow: Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar, Measureit, HTML Tidy and
Fireform are all major time savers, and I can’t imagine living without
them. But Chrome has zero add-ons at this point, and it’s not very customizable. I’ll probably still primarily be using Firefox for quite some time.

HTML 5 Spec

Math — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:07:31 +0000

Browsing the still-in-development HTML5 recommendation is fun.

My favorite addition is the “irrelevant” attribute (which I could wrap around some entire sites I’ve done in the past), but there are all kinds of interesting new gadgets, including a bunch of new dom events, sandboxable iframes, video and audio elements, a “draggable” attribute, a datagrid and more. It’s also worth noting that the “embed” element will now officially be part of the spec, making all kinds of invalid flash embedding suddenly okay.

IE Users

Math — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:01:53 +0000

Funniest Venn diagram I’ve seen in a long time. Also, the most accurate. Though it doesn’t differentiate between IE6 and IE7 users, which I feel is a key piece of information.

Firebug Freezes Gmail

Math — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:27:55 +0000

I’m probably the last person in the world to figure this out, but Gmail hates Firebug–my mail slows to a crawl if I have FB running. Disabling FB completely seems to have worked for me. Though now I need to keep turning it off and on all day, which blows. (And no, choosing “disable firebug for gmail.com” doesn’t help.)

Back Online

Math — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:52:39 +0000

If you tried to come to my site recently (particularly if you’re using Firefox), you probably got some crazy warning about how your computer will blow up, or something.

Apparently, I was hacked. Don’t worry though, it wasn’t anything that would have harmed or infected your computer. You’re all good.

Anyhoo, I’m back online now. I guess I should check on this site more often, but now that I’m posting mostly through browser plugins, I don’t often actually see the site any more. Lesson learned.

By Way of Explanation – The Link Roundup

Math — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:29:21 +0000

I guess I never explained this “link roundup” thing.

Here’s the deal: it takes me a really, really long time to write anything at all. And at such a sluggish pace, I can’t cover a tenth of the interesting junk I run across during the course of a day. So rather than let post after post of unfinished full-length commentary languish in draft, I attached my del.icio.us account to this blog and started publishing my bookmarks in chunks of 4 or 5. This way, my commentary is necessarily limited to 250 characters, and I’m pretty much forced to keep things simple. Which is best for both of us.

This is not to say I won’t also be writing full-length posts any more–but there’ll probably be lots of supplemental content in between. Hooray?

Webmonkey Is Back

Math — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:44:36 +0000

If you learned to make websites during the late 90s dotcom boom, you definitely know about Webmonkey. The web design tutorial site got me through a lot of hard times in college, and I though I hadn’t really used it in a while I was still pretty bummed when it died in 2004.

Anyway, long story short: Webmonkey is back. It has apparently been acquired by Wired (hey–I just busted a rhyme!) and relaunched as a wiki. This makes my heart happy. (via Jeff Veen)

Charlie Rose Talks to Charlie Rose About Technology

Math — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:42:42 +0000

Here.

Interviewed: Second Skin Producer Victor Piñeiro

Math — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:05:30 +0000

There are a lot of interesting movies premiering at SXSW this year, including Second Skin, a documentary look at the lives of seven MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) players. The trailer looks pretty great–though, admittedly, I’ve logged a lot of hours playing console games like Final Fantasy, so maybe it won’t be so interesting to someone who doesn’t care about video games.

In any event, I recently interviewed the film’s producer, Victor Piñeiro, for Austinist, and he’s a super cool guy. If all goes well, I’ll have a bunch more SXSW filmmaker interviews in the coming weeks.

UPDATE: The Second Skin guys arrived in Austin this week to do some promotion, and they’re posting video blogs of their SXSW experience on their youtube page.