Archive for January, 2007

Design and UI Updates

I wish I could take credit for the layout, but it’s a combination of the renown Wordpress K2 system with Steve Lam’s TrueBlue template. Until tonight I hadn’t understood what the hype was about with the K2 theme. It’s much more than a theme however. It’s a entire system for handling the wordpress [...]


Book 1: Joel on Software

I make too many new years resolutions. Usually I try the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” strategy towards broad change like this. Toss out all your ideas at once and surely some of them you’ll follow through on. Of course it takes motivation and dedication to follow through, but leaving that [...]


Frameworks Convention Update

Hotel is booked, tickets are bought — I’m on my way to the Frameworks Conference at the beginning of February! Although I went to CFUnited instead last year, going to frameworks the year before was very informative. I believe this year it will be even more exciting considering how much Coldfusion has grown since then [...]


OpenID Delegate Wordpress Plugin

Interested in adding OpenID to your wordpress blog? From Eran, the same guy who recently released a MicroID Plugin for Wordpress comes an easy way to delegate OpenID server without hardcoding anything. For a while I’d been hardcoding the delegate in my header, but this a much cleaner way. Install the plugin, fill in the [...]


Review of hReview Wordpress Plugin

hReview WordPress Plugin
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Andrew Scott’s hReview plugin for Wordpress
Have you heard about hReview? It’s a Microformat for describing reviews that can be easily crawled, indexed and searched by other services. The best description of Microformats I’ve heard so far is that of an accidental API.
Andrew Scott’s wordpress plugin for creating hReview’s makes this a snap though. [...]


Interview with Dan Cederholm of Simplebits

Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits has for a long time been one of the designers I’ve most respected. His code is extremely clean, self documenting and the results come out Bulletproof. His book is probably the best CSS reference I have seen, and changed my outlook on what CSS design should be. Brian Oberkirch has an [...]