WPBlacklist 2.5 released 🙂

JZ Presents: Pardon My Icons, nothing to do with web development, but this is how I first came across Zeldman’s site.

Guide to product weblogs, well-written and thourough.

Happy Birthday to Kathy. Big 30.

Drew has finished up his excellent series, read them all. The Joel Test for Web Development, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and the Conclusion.

Maybe I’m a bit too optimistic about noospheric homesteading, but I expect that the pressures of this space will eventually leave only two kinds of bloggers: the ones who get paid enough, and the ones who have to be here because their bliss won’t let them do anything else.

Well I finally got Trac up and running. Trac itself wasn’t so bad, there were just twenty things I had to set up before I could even get to that point. Once trac-admin stopped crashing things were a piece of cake. I’m following something similar to these instructions for managing multiple projects.

The miniBB authors are moving away from the GPL. This is what we use for our support forums. Perhaps now would be a good time to release my version.

Welcome to October. I said last month that big things were happening in September, and they did. What’s killing me is I can’t talk about them yet.

I am now a character in a Sims game. Update: Here’s the entire category, which includes pictures.

How to survive writer’s block

Open Letter to Steve Jobs by Aswath Rao.

Last week I went out to the H-Town blogs happy hour at Onion Creek, an excellent coffee place in the Heights. I met Elaine, Kathy, Ted, Cody, Lauren, and Kelly — all great folks. Here’s a photo of the ragtag crew.

Four million down, two to go.

PM Clinic discussion, a list discussing project management in the context of web development from the great guy who brought us UI Web.

Byte-order marks in the beginning of files can output content before PHP is ready for it, a word to the wise. Just say no to BOM.

This unofficial Dr Pepper FAQ has more information about Dr Pepper than you could ever want, including instructions on how to get the cane sugar DP from different parts of the country.

Went to the Dr Pepper Museum yesterday with Elissa. It was pretty neat, lots of interesting stuff, but the highlight was definitely the old-style Dr Pepper they sold. It’s made with Imperial Pure Cane Sugar instead of corn syrup and it tastes amazing. I think you can order it on the internet (another site).

I’ll be in Austin for a few days so if you will too drop me a note.