Category Archives: Asides
How many hours?
About how many hours of productive work do you get done a day? Comment anonymously if you prefer.
WP-Amazon
Amazon WordPress plugin, looks handy.
More Friendster
I just logged into Friendster and it’s really fast. Like Orkut fast. Their markup looks good too. Russell Beattie continues the PHP discussion with Is PHP Really More Scalable Than JSP?
Calculate Pagerank
Calculate Pagerank with PHP, using some funky but cool code. Better than having to fire up IE just to use the toolbar.
Friendster goes PHP
Friendster addresses performance problems by switching from Java to PHP. Note in the comments how language zealots are flailing about pointing to benchmarks saying how much faster JSP is. The comments from the PHP guys are the only decent ones in the thread. I stand by the assertion that PHP is the top web language to use to get stuff done.
John Clinton Covey
Fluid Shadows
Michael Simmons presents fluid shadows on his attractive site.
Power
The Power of WordPress, or how to leverage a robust platform to speed development. I’ve grown so accustomed to WP functions and resources that I find myself including the WP files as a base to work from even when what I’m doing has nothing to do with blogging.
Black Feminism
Black Feminism powered by WordPress, a migration from Drupal. “If you’re interested in using WordPress, I encourage you to. It’s well documented, open source, and standards-compliant. It does help if you know PHP, but it’s not crucial. All-in-all, a wonderful web log tool.”
More on FC
Fast Company clarifies linking policy. Hat tip: Anil.
Websites
The reason we should stick to making websites. Be sure to check out the rest of Simon’s excellent SF photos.
Meryl
Use Tasks
Alex announces his new hosted service Use Tasks.
Email Experiment
Running an experiment with my email today, we’ll see how it turns out. This could be quite interesting.
evbot
Ev says “Apparently I’m a bot.” The most important question: Why in the world was he using Register.com?
RSS Traffic
This site’s bandwidth usage is approximately 4 percent from syndication feeds.
More Gmail
Three invitations. Just leave a comment and say why you need it.
Eric Links
Eric does a linklog. In for a penny, in for a dollar. The one thing that bugs me about this type of link blog with the commentary in the title attribute is that Mozilla and family cuts off the title tooltip when you hover over the link. To see the entire message I either have to view source or right click and chose “Properties”, which also has a set length and I usually have to select the text and move my mouse to get it to “scroll.” Is there a better solution?
Converting CGI
Mike Davidson writes Converting CGI Movable Type Templates to PHP. No comment permalinks, but my response is # 13.