Fade Anything Technique gives you the smooth “yellow fade” popularized by the 37 Signals crew. Check out this technique as well. We should roll one of these into WordPress, I can think of several situations where it’d be useful.

Angermann2 is not your typical WP weblog. Warning: bright colors.

“The vhost plugin binds a WordPress category to a virtual host on your webserver, either a sub-domain or a seperate fully-qualified domain. You can have as many such bindings as you have vhosts: just make a new category for each one. Each vhost category pair can use its own template.”

A beta versioning plugin for WordPress, very cool. Been wanting something like this for a while. Tracks all the changes you make to an entry and allows you to revert to an older version if necessary.

WordPress is not PHP, a basic template tutorial.

mMaim is a MySQL monitor and atomfeed is a Python module for generating Atom feeds by Steve Jenson, who is also involved in some cool secure distributing computing things.

Ping-O-Matic turned one today, just shy of a hundred million pings. I updated the pings per day graph last week to show all the data we had available. It’s kind of interesting to follow it through our one major downtime and the posting dips every weekend and the growth lately.

Using Gmail as a spam filter, a fantastic idea. Works for any address.

It’s becoming more and more painfully obvious that Meetup has jumped the shark, we might as well start a group working on an open source alternative for WordPress users. Anyone interested in working on this?

Chris Messina, one of the guys who built Spread Firefox, has announced he’s moving on due to the direction the site is going. Of course, watch what you say about the matter.

TaskThis is another ta-da list clone that is actually much more impressive. Rails rails rails rails rails. I think it’s time for me to check out Rails again.

Open Source Usability: The birth of a movement. Mentions the usability review in the comments. At the next FLOSS Sprint Eugene has asked for WordPress to be one of the main projects.

Scoble got in trouble for the very long geek lunch/meetup last Saturday in Seattle. He also relates a funny story from the afternoon. We had about 15 people come and go during the meetup and it was a lot of fun — thanks to all who came out.

There is a new Squeezebox out, and it looks awesome. I just wish they hadn’t raised the price so much! I really need 3 to do what I want to do, which is full multi-room audio, but at that price it may be economical just to have someone come out and wire the place up.

Stewart Ugelow writes in that “Adam Trachtenberg, eBay’s technical evangelist and author of O’Reilly’s
“Upgrading to PHP 5”, has switched to WordPress.”

Drupal 4.6.0 is out and has some very cool new features, not the least of which is it’s joining the generation of new publishing tools that ping Ping-O-Matic by default. 🙂 Congrats to the Drupal team on the release.

Adobe to aquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion. Whoa! At first I thought this was a late April fool’s joke.

Someone cloned all of Ta-da List into Bla-Blah List which uses Flash for the interface instead of HTML/JS. What’s even more interesting is it’s all Open Source, so now I could run my own copy of Ta-da on one of my machines. Too bad the backend is in Java and not something I could easily run, like PHP, Python, Ruby, or Perl.

Okay so it looks like the best place in terms of size, price, and location of those suggested is The Pike Pub & Brewery which sounds like a fun, laid-back place perfect for a meetup. Thanks to Scott and Jane for suggesting it. Still going to meet at 1 PM. It looks like there are going to be some great people attending, so it should be a lot of fun. Oh, and the tag for today is “wordpressmeetup“. 🙂