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Simon does a nice big tutorial on writing bookmarklets. Which happens to be exactly what I need right now…
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“…I think the trick of Portal is that the AI NPC is really the player. The NPC addresses the PC in the same patronizing tone I address characters I control when they… slide off the platform I tried to land them on.”
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“It’s amazing how deeply embedded in our collective consciousness is the notion of the lethally impersonal corporation with a dead marketing voice.”
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“Lotus Notes, an application whose awkward integration of multiple feature sets I’ve only ever heard spoken about with violent disgust, promotes itself as freakish software. This is a campaign that can only make sense in the … world of enterprise soft
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“it’s the high price tags that invariably command a squadron of Suits whipping out their Powerpoint presentations and flying all over the place. That’s expensive, and customers are tired of it.”
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Can’t believe I’ve not added Apache vhosts sooner. So anyway, here’s a neat reminder of how to do this.
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Codeignitier’s interactions with databases explained – might fix some problems I ran into with it this morning…
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“I wrote a tiny jQuery extension that logs the current jQuery selection to the firebug console… The nice thing about logging to firebug is that each node becomes clickable in the console, so you can immediately see the context.” Excellent!
Not such a James Blunt as he used to be
19 October 2007
James Blunt appears on Sesame Street, as so many have done before him, and sends up his greatest hit to delicious effect. Whilst his music may be drippy, dreary, and downright awful… you’ve got to admire how game he is for this slot. It almost redeems him for everything else.
Almost.
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Quartz Composer Samples – with .mov and source files as well.
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““Demeter’s Revenge” is a simple extension to ActiveRecord, written as a Rails plugin that creates a collection of Demeter-friendly methods for your has_many and has_and_belongs_to_many associations.”
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Ingenious home-made ringlight for macro work.
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“The Unit Command Climate Assessment and Survey System (UCCASS) (pronounced yoo-kas) is a PHP based survey script that allows you to create online surveys.” And it looks like a nice alternative to PHPESP…
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“A compilation of seven spectacular and inspiration JavaScript projects, presented in full color and written by a renowned group of industry leaders.” Blimey, that’s a lineup.
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“Better Rails Code through …ActiveRecords with no public methods that have side-effects–other than Create, Update, and Destroy (CUD).” Ooh. This could be exactly what I need. Certainly worth a closer look, anyhow.
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“CCMenu displays the project status of CruiseControl continuous integration servers as an item in the Mac OS X menu bar.” And it integrates with Growl.
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“Cruciforum is a very simple web forum, designed to make it really easy to add a discussion forum to a website.” Rather fun: no accounts, no administration, all static HTML, and all from one file. Feels entertainingly old-school.
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“If we call ourselves professionals, we owe it to our clients, their clients, and ourselves, to do our job properly. A chef must care about health, a builder must care about safety, and we must care about accessibility.”
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There’s an achievement in HL2:Episode 2 which involves carrying a little gnome through the entire game and doing a thing with him. A lovely writeup here.
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“This free, open source LAMP production stack for RedHat Enterprise Edition, CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu will allow users to quickly put Rails applications on production servers.”
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Pretty much true, all of it. One day, I’ll experience this. One day.
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WordPress, by default, only lets you search “posts”. If you want to search both blogposts and static content, then this plugin is what you need. I’m very surprised this isn’t an option out of the box.
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Nice tutorial on creating options pages for your WordPress plugins.
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“…a user interface design conceived by someone without detailed understanding of the tools used to construct it often suggests good, but expensive to implement designs. There’s a sweet-spot between good, and expensive to build…”
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Lots of simple, well-written recipes for a wide range of staple dishes. Definitely one for me to come back to – need to broaden the household recipe list, methinks…
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“Seems like a simple question, doesn’t it? What’s your goal? Amazingly, many of the photographers I talk to–both amateur and pro–don’t really know the answer to that question.” Good stuff here from Thom Hogan.
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“Organizer is a Wordrpress plugin. This plugin help the wordpress users to manage the files uploaded to their blog.” Nice and simple, nicely done.