These Corbis galleries have some beautifully done photos. Worth poking around for portrait ideas, at the very least.
MD5 and passwords
Handy Dandy Guides to MD5 and passwords, in which you can see why we use that method for WordPress. Hat tip: Sushubh.
bestkungfu
Matt May, best known to me for his accessibility work and employment at the W3C, appears to have switched to WordPress. Also, congrats on the 5k (which has nothing to do with computers). All he needs now are cooler URIs.
With Kathy
Finished up a Will & Grace mini-marathon and had some great buffalo wings at “BW3” with Kathy, Sarah, and and Kathy’s husband Tom. Great food and company. 🙂
Learning The Lessons of Nixon
Lisa Williams uses the Dewey Decimal system to categorize her WordPress blog. Krazy.
Fighting for Apple
Fighting for Apple, a nice overview mainly addressing why Michael loves his Mac. I’m the last web-geek I know that doesn’t use a Mac, and the peer pressure is pretty harsh.
Press It
WordPressing matters: Fixing Press It for FireFox 0.9, this will of course be in the next release.
Link Changes
I made some much needed cleanups to the URI structure around here. I changed my links, but yours can stay the same. Every previous variation of permalinks all the way back to when I first started with b2 still works, and all serve permanent redirects to the latest and greatest.
CSS Nomenclature
Eric Meyer: Elemental Nomenclature. If I had to name everything the same it would stifle my creativity so much I think I’d go back to tables. A better start to this would be instead of looking at the naming scheme of a dozen or so web designers, look at the naming scheme of widely used blog software. Is it worth all that work for such an amazingly small minority of users though? User stylesheets have never taken off, and I seriously doubt they ever will.
MMCache
Turck MMCache Vs PHP Accelerator. I used to use PHPA and then migrated to MMcache recently, however I had to turn it off because it kept segfaulting when compiling KSES files. However the caching functions and shared memory stuff is really neat.
FeedDemon
IRC
WordPress IRC channel, #wordpress on irc.freenode.net.
Hard Stuff
Jeffrey Veen on FeedBurner and Ping-O-Matic, sorry if I already blogged this one.
WordPress wish list
Thunderbyrd WordPress wish list, what’s neat is almost everything is covered through plugins. Also see the official wishlist on the wiki.
Color Shift
Neat color shift widget, includes a Photo Matt color scheme. Fun to play with.
WP Count
11,000 and counting.
2 Million
2 million and counting.
Well That Was Fun
I said I would take it down, I never said for how long. Thank you to everyone for taking a little time out with me in celebration of the big day. I was as surprised as everyone else, and watching the reactions come in was pretty interesting. The emails ranged from shocked to congratulatory to incredulous to angry. Thank you to everyone who wrote in. Many people linked to the site being down which should help solidify the #1 position in the eyes of the fickle mistress Google. Thank you all as well.
You’d think it would be cooler here in Houston, with hell freezing over and all, but it is as hot as ever. At the same time I’m told in San Francisco I need to dress in “layers.” I packed all my layers up months ago! Might have some <div>
s around though…
I was able to get some of the work I was planning to do on the site done, mostly tweaks to the look and layout of things. I wouldn’t call it a redesign, more like a summer variation on a theme. Many of the changes are very subtle, but in my eyes important. The most obvious change, the sun in the corner, looks nothing like I want it to, so I’m not sure what will happen to that. (If you have any ideas, send them in.) Many other things still need attention, so expect to see occasional breakage and constant tweaking over the next week. I finally closed the comments on the mosaic. So it will stand at 1,017 comments,. The page is still huge, so I’m going to move the comments to a separate page just for that entry. The jazz quotes need some cleaning up, and I’d like to add a little information about each player to each page, including at least a picture. The photolog is being overhauled, and the long-promised classics section is almost done. Finally I promise that photo will be random again, any day now.
It was just a little over a day, but it feels good to be back. Let’s not do that again though. I really missed writing here.
I’m going to be in San Francisco next week, so if you are too I’d love to meet up. Drop me a line.
Stuff Gmail
Load all your mail into Gmail, at a rate of 30 messages per minute. I don’t want to think about how long this would take for me. Hat tip: Carthik.
IEeeeeee
Oh yeah, who needs to support IE 6 in new standards? It’s not important at all.