While poking around and calibrating all my monitors the same way today I found the setting for making the Mac OS X gamma similar to that found on PCs, personally I prefer to see things how most of my users are going to see them. It’s under System Preferences, the Displays, Color, and then click Calibrate.

This AJAX spell checker seems pretty interesting and functions a lot like Gmail’s. Has anyone written a plugin using it yet?

I’m going to be at CTC in a few weeks in New York and to warm things up Arieanna Foley quizzed me “about collaboration tools, open source, and how companies can get going using non commercial collaboration tools such as blogs and wikis.” Worth checking out.

“In fact, the ease of putting up pages on wordpress was amazing. I wouldn’t hesitate to use wordpress to manage content for almost any small business’s website.”

Google Sitemaps seem strange to me, but you can generate them with WordPress now.

Nirantar, a Hindi blogzine, has a special WordPress edition up. Judging from the cover I’m pretty sure this has an interview I did with them in it. I hope my terrible jokes translated well.

A community is an investment, if you create one and they feel disempowered it can get ugly and sad. With WordPress we don’t have the resources to address all of the community requests, but we do try hard and make progress every week and I think people appreciate that.

I had missed this great Newsforge review of WordPress when it came out.

The Lifecycle of Bloggers.

I’m using this nifty plugin from Scott Yang which was pointed out to me by Alistair. It’s actually replacing a bit of code and mod_rewrite rules I had to do the same thing, I wish I had thought of this sooner. I could see something like this making it into the core.

So what’s the best way to compress Javascript code? I found a couple of online services that didn’t work and this Perl script which seemed nice but was a little overzealous perhaps because the resulting code errored out.

Official WordPress Themes page, fresh and shiny. I feel like when Neo in the Matrix says “I know kung-fu.” I know javascript. Not really, but normally I stay as far away from JS as humanly possible but I was able to cobble together some pieces to make this work pretty much exactly how I wanted. Thanks to Chris Messina for the original mockup.

Designing Headers, one of the latest of hundreds of pages of documentation the great WP doc team has been working on. Should help you spruce up that default template a bit.

The Secrets of WP Theming Part 1.

Even though I’ve stepped down as the organizer for all of the Meetup groups I was involved in, they kept bugging me every few days to “be an organizer” for the very groups I had left. Want to delete yourself from Meetup entirely? Here’s the remove from Meetup link.

Has anyone else started seeing Adwords with city names under them? I just saw one like this “Got a favorite burrito? Vote for your favorite burrito in the San Francisco Bay Area! www.burritobot.com San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA” when I searched for burrito.

“BayCon is one of the five largest regional annual science fiction and fantasy conventions in the United States, and has been held annually since 1982.” With a program schedule that includes everything from “People for the Ethical Treatment of Mars” to “Historical Swordfights – How They Were Done” to “Belly Dancing Workshop.” Well I just got word that WordPress will be joining the party with a WordPress BoF at 1 PM on Sunday in the Chardonnay Room. I’ll be there and I promise not to try out any of the belly dancing I learned the previous day.

Customizing WordPress with Greasemonkey, I expect to see a lot more of this in the future. Any other GM scripts for WP? Hat tip: Billy via email.

I needed to play around with a SQLite database today (we switched all our bug tracking from Mantis to Trac) and it really strikes me how immature all of the SQLite administration tools are, especially considering the incredible competition like phpMyAdmin. I ran into tons of cryptic errors, scripts not doing anything, not handling magic quotes properly, and a million other problems most PHP programmers fix after a few months learning the language.