I met a Fundable guy at SxSW who was pushing the service hard, now that it’s up and running it looks pretty neat.

Keith is learning WordPress and looking for some pointers, already some great resources have been pointed out in the comments so read those before adding anything.

I’ve linked it before, and it’s worth doing again: WP Cache makes WordPress perform as well as a completely static-file site, able to handle hundreds of requests per second without breaking a sweat. It also maintains with the conventions that were introduced in Staticize for making selective portions of a page completely dynamic, regardless of caching. Think how much performance would scream if combined with something like lighttpd. We’re going to be looking at rolling in this advanced caching into the core in the future.

Tools for Textareas, the resizing textarea has been in the WordPress Shuttle development mockups for a while.

How Ross Mayfield has grown Socialtext as a virtual company and the pros and cons of that system. I see interesting similarities between the way the WordPress team works, and I imagine the same would be true for other open source projects as well. I sat next to an awesome MySQL guy on a plane a few weeks ago and he told me that a significant percentage (I believe it was 80%, more accurate figure welcome) of the MySQL company worked from home. Their conference is the only time of the year most of them see each other face-to-face.

The Ajaxian blog has pretty full coverage of O’Reilly’s and AP’s ultra-exclusive Ajax Summit that happened the past two days. The presentations range from the normal to the really exciting. (WordPress is using Dojo for several upcoming things.) If you’re one of the 15 people I’ve read today complaining about not being invited, I wouldn’t really worry about it. Costs probably kept the event limited and at the end of the day conferences and speaking are 86% political anyway.

Jeremy’s search for a home network storage appliance is very similar to my own, so go give him advice. I’ve also been considering just getting another dedicated server instead, for ~$100 a month I can get a high-bandwidth server with 250+ GB of storage and upgrade it every year. Of course this might not be necessary with home bandwidth going up — I got two offers this month for 10mbps and 25mbps internet connections in my building for under $30 a month, a third of what I just paid to Comcast.

Usable AJAX form.

So according to Preople I should use Matthew instead of Matt, though I have no idea what that number is based on. I found this service via Om and it seems like the whole rank thing is a clever way to get you to register and start blogging. Here’s my Preople blog and profile page. Capitalizing on people’s ego is always a sure bet, so I predict this service might do pretty well, though it obviously has some very rough edges right now.

A lot of the same people who rant and rave every time Internet Explorer has another security snafu are being strangely silent about Firefox’s recent flaws. I wonder how many of the web technorati are willing to give Firefox a pass every now and then because of its superior standards support? The Firefox team is also to be commended for their rapid response to the issue on the only site that’s vulnerable by default.

Kevin thinks Google is building a Singularity Machine.

WordPress has the most blogging market share in Switzerland, above even Blogger. Maybe that’s where the WordPress World Tour should go next. 🙂

Apparently we just had a small earthquake here, but I didn’t notice it. Living in California is always full of surprises. 🙂

I just upgraded to the new 1.5.1 release by running svn up. Total upgrade time? 3 seconds. That’s hard to beat. Unfortunately updates like mine don’t bump the counter.

Scott Berkun wrote a great book on Project Management and now has a WordPress blog about being a new author. He’s doing a meetup in Sunnyvale on Wednesday which should be fun. Anyone need a ride from San Francisco? I’ve never been to Faultline.

Michel has benchmarked PHP Markdown being faster than the Perl version.

Ten ways to live longer.

I’ve been mentioning Newsmap to people lately so I thought I’d link to it here because it has a terrible URI and I always forget the name.

So Google has done what hReview dreams of in the future, and they’ve done it without boiling the ocean and making everyone change their markup. If we all do million dollar markup we can enable multi-million dollar search startups to compete with billion dollar giants, with the obvious economic incentive for the hoi polloi being increased traffic from placement in the content aggregators.

I’m going to be following Tagsonomy the new group blog on tagging, which is built on WordPress. The tag experiments on the support forums have been going alright but I’d like to make the heat map more of a discovery mechanism, perhaps allowing time or random elements to weigh more heavily. 43 Things comes to mind. Any good code out there for this?