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  • Search Pages 2.3 Plugin
    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.
    (tags: wordpress search plugin)
  • Adding options to WordPress plugins « WordPress Bits
    Nice tutorial on creating options pages for your WordPress plugins.
    (tags: wordpress plugin development programming howto)
  • Dirty hands required, Why user experience people need to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty in development to get the best results
    “…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…”
    (tags: design interaction usability ux process team management)
  • 101 Things Every Cook Should Cook
    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…
    (tags: food blog recipes cookery cooking)
  • What’s your Goal? by Thom Hogan
    “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.
    (tags: photography progress education selfdevelopment learning)
  • Imthiaz Blog » WordPress Organizer
    “Organizer is a Wordrpress plugin. This plugin help the wordpress users to manage the files uploaded to their blog.” Nice and simple, nicely done.
    (tags: wordpress upload plugin)
  • Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
    An even better explanation of SQL joins via Venn Diagrams. Already saved some bacon today, I can tell you.
    (tags: sql diagrams illustration join syntax)
  • Adactio: Journal – The password anti-pattern
    “…even if it costs me a contract in the short-term, I will refuse to implement any kind of interface that involves asking the user for a password from a third-party site. I urge you to do the same.” Jeremy is right. No question about it.
    (tags: privacy security openauth oauth facebook identity design pattern)
  • Serious Eats: Stichelton: Raw-Milk Stilton
    “In a new dairy on the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire, they’re producing a raw-milk “Stilton” that they’re calling Stichelton, the name of the village where Stilton originated.” I’ve got to get me some of that.
    (tags: cheese)
  • Thoughts About Photography: 35mm Lego Camera
    35mm pinhole camera, made out of lego. Delightful.
    (tags: lego photography camera construction pinhole hack)
  • cforms II » delicious:days
    Really comprehensive WordPress plugin for handling not just contact forms, but data-tracking forms of any kind. Customisable, reasonably nice output, and a good database admin that lets you spit out CSV. Recommended.
    (tags: wordpress plugin form development software tracking email)
  • michael-mccracken.net » The editing pass
    “Anything worth writing is worth re-writing. This applies to code as well as prose.”
    (tags: code programming editing style refactoring)
  • Again With the Comics: Batman by Dostoyevsky
    “This marriage of Classic Russian Literature and the Caped Crusader of Gotham also serves as further proof, if any were needed, that everything is better with Batman.”
    (tags: comics crossover batman dostoyevsky literature humour)
  • The Online Photographer: How to Succeed as a Photographer
    “…what they’re actually saying to editors, picture professionals, and photo buyers is, ‘I photograph the same crap everybody else does, in a style indistinguishable from a thousand other guys.'”
    (tags: photography)
  • Ask 37signals: Do I need a designer to make pretty? – (37signals)
    “When designers and programmers work with the same materials, they speak the same language. That’s an incredibly helpful way to work together”… and hugely dependent on the people. At best, I try to achieve this with the people I’ve worked with.
    (tags: design development procedure practice web)
  • TMRC Dictionary
    “The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech Model Railroad Club of M.I.T. and all rights to use and define these words are strictly reserved.” From 1959.
    (tags: tmrc hack computer technology mit jargon)
  • Plugins – Textmate Footnotes – Agile Web Development
    This plugin saves you time when moving between your browser and Textmate. It adds clickable links to the Rails backtrace when an error occurs, and clickable ‽footnotes‽ to the bottom of each page… [which] open the correct file in Textmate.
    (tags: ruby rails rubyonrails debugging textmate osx)
  • StupidFilter :: Main / HomePage
    “Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.”
    (tags: bayesian filter idiots technology youtube stupid)
  • Twelve Essential Photographic Rules – – PopPhotoSeptember 2007
    When they say “rules”, they mean “of thumb”, but they’re still handy yardsticks to have.
    (tags: photography tips reference)
  • 5 Reasons Distributed Teams Suck | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki
    “when ever you have a new team member you have a new team”. Ross Mayfield is pretty accurate, in my experience, of the issues with distributed working.
    (tags: work distributed teleworking)
  • Humanized > Weblog: Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software
    “In an effort to understand usability in the OSS world, I’ve researched the stories behind my favorite — and least favorite — OSS programs.”
    (tags: opensource design software programming development)
  • a presentation on rock’n’roll storytelling | guy parsons for “the reader/writer mashup”
    “Adventures in particpatory, interactive, rock’n’roll storytelling.” Guy’s talk in fulltext format. Nicely done, Guy.
    (tags: presentation essay play storytelling narrative games arg)
  • YouTube – Fantoche (2 times)
    An animation painted on a many walls, and interacting with the space around it. Hypnotic, grotesque, beautiful.
    (tags: animation stopmotion illustration youtube)
  • Six Apart – News and Events: We Are Opening the Social Graph
    “Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you. No one company should own who you know and how you know them.” This could be interesting!
    (tags: openid social networking graph portable network api code)
  • Bamboo Blog – Aspects of AOP
    Having worked on AspectJ Development Tools (AJDT) a while back, I thought aspect-orientated programming (AOP) would be good topic […]. I’m not going to go into too much depth but hopefully it’ll highlight some of the possible uses of AOP.
    (tags: aspectoriented development programming aspects)
  • Language Switcher WordPress Plugin, from Poplar ProductivityWare
    “The Language Switcher WordPress plugin allows you to create a bilingual or multi-lingual blog, using WordPress.” Feels a little fudgy to me, but it definitely works.
    (tags: bilingual blog wordpress plugin multilingual language)
  • Professional Software Development » Strategies for Effective Code Reviews
    “You need to mentally prepare yourself before starting a review by reminding yourself of the purpose of the review and the need for a critical, questioning attitude.” Nice article on how to make code reviews effective.
    (tags: code review software development programming practice)
  • QuarkRuby: Ruby on Rails Security Guide
    Long, detailed, useful reference guide to all the areas that you can tighten the security of your Ralis application.
    (tags: security rails ruby rubyonrails programming development)
  • glTail.rb – realtime logfile visualization
    Visualisation of logfile access – “if you can tail it, you can visualise it” – in Ruby and openGL.
    (tags: ruby apache log visualisation dataviz opengl)
  • Kongregate: Play Manifold
    Lovely, gravity-bending flash game.
    (tags: games flash gravity)
  • Face value | The Skype hyper | Economist.com
    “All three—the internet telephone firm, the video site and the social network—make almost no money. EBay’s disappointment with Skype is a timely reminder of where this fad might lead.” The Economist on EBay’s Skype “issue”…
    (tags: business internet web20 skype ebay economist analysis stock)
  • Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication
    Communication is inescapable, irreversible, complicated, and contextual. Nice summation of many of the issues around communicating with other people. Reminds me how little I’m going to miss transatlantic teleconferencing.
    (tags: communication people psychology understanding culture context)
  • S3 + Rake = Easy Backups for SVN Repositories, Databases, and Code
    “All it takes is a single call to Rake and you’re backed up on Amazon’s redundant, secure systems.”
    (tags: rake s3 ruby rails backup scm svn)
  • Interactive Fiction Competition Games
    The 2007 IF competiton games, all ready for download.
    (tags: games if textadventure interactivefiction)
  • :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: Did you order the code red?!
    “In discussion, we decided there is too much logic in the controller. We want to move the authorization into the correct place in our domain model. But where?”
    (tags: rails authentication ruby rubyonrails mvc)
  • Particletree » Visualizing Fitts’s Law
    “Fitts’s Law is Made of Lines” is a rough summary of this, but in short – a neat graphical explanation of Fitt’s Law, with some useful notes, too.
    (tags: interaction usability hci ux)
  • Software Is Hard
    “If you can’t tell how long a piece of code would take when you have the finished product available, what chance do you think you have before the first line of code is written?” If only I could show this article to so many of my old directors.
    (tags: management software programming development estimation budget scale scope)
  • Play, story and recombination (Leapfroglog)
    “If you approach design not as embedding your story in the environment, but as creating an environment wherein users can create their own stories, then I’d say you’re on the right track.” Kars on playful IA again.
    (tags: ia design interaction story storytelling narrative)
  • ReinH: The Autotest Rosetta Stone
    Pimping Autotest for fun and profit. And Growl notification. Nice!
    (tags: rspec autotest rails growl testing ruby)
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