Ev, founder of Blogger, moves on. Beautiful entry. Wish him the very best. Hat tip: Tantek (who got it from Dave).
Joel Test for Web Development
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.
Blog Your Bliss
Best and Brightest
The Best and Brightest, Glamorous Life #33. Who says Zeldman gets linked less?
Zeldman has had a profound influence on the way I think about the web. I started taking web craft seriously because of Zeldman. WordPress exists because of Zeldman. I am where I am today because of Jeffrey Zeldman. This isn’t hyperbole, just statement of fact.
I think now is an excellent time for people to take a walk through his archives and highlight their favorite articles, something I’ll do myself at least once a day every day this week. If you’re doing something similar leave a comment so I can follow along. It’ll be interesting to see what people were most influenced by from one of the most influential fathers of today’s web.
Bloglines Trouble
I just got this at Bloglines: “There is a problem with the database. Please try again later.” Uh oh. I wonder if they’re going to hit the same growing pains Technorati went through.
Trac Again
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.
Podium Heights
minibb Abandons GPL
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.
Search Patents
Does Yahoo have a patent on search ads? Reading over it looks like it covers paid inclusion, not text-ads like Google has.
Kevin on MT
Help SpamAssassin
SpamAssassin 3
I hit some bumps setting the new SpamAssassin up but now that it’s running I’m amazed. I was getting to the point again where a few spams were getting through every day, and that number seems to have been going up, but since installing 3.0 I haven’t seen a single spam in my inbox. The Bayesian identification seems a lot faster and more accurate. Because of a procmail typo this morning about a dozen emails got lost, so if you think one of those may have been you please re-send.
October
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.
Sims 2
I am now a character in a Sims game. Update: Here’s the entire category, which includes pictures.
Debate Facts
Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates, timely. Hat tip: Haughey.
Writer’s Block
Baby Zeldman
Letter to Steve
Open Letter to Steve Jobs by Aswath Rao.
Gallery: 9-29-2004
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H-Town Bloggers
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.