Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress
Nice series of slides on pushing WordPress to its limits and the types of people who are doing so. Check also the links at the bottom of the post for more of the presentations from WordCamp 2008.
(tags: wordcamp wordcamp2008 wordpress wpmu breakingstuff howto)
Design and Branding Trends: [...]
David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08
DHH gives a talk about Web startups.
(tags: web video ruby programming rails presentation marketing)
Old marketing with new tools
Seth Godin: "We use technology to insulate us from our customers instead of bringing us closer." All too often, this is the case. Even something as simple as email has the ability to be used in a very personal and very real manner to make connections with people. Sometimes I find [...]
State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses
I wish more states felt the way California does. Post-employment non-compete clauses are nearly a form of bondservitude and do not properly reflect our economic system.
(tags: it jobs competition economics)
Improve your Geometry Wars 2 scores with this hardware mod
A very complicated, but very effective, hardware mod for your Xbox 360 meant to improve your Geometry Wars 2 score.
(tags: geometrywars xbox360 awesome howto)
Internet Memes
In case you ever wondered where college was for you in the grand Internet timeline, this will certainly tell you.
(tags: web reference [...]
Decoy Marketing
Interesting little anecdote on like-priced products affecting the purchase of products that people normally wouldn't take a look at.
(tags: strategy sales psychology money marketing business)
Are you in the tribe?
I'll be in the Tribe later this week, I hope.
(tags: strategy socialnetworking social marketing geek community book)
The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List: The 77 Best Business [...]
“The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing
The admittedly biased Wil Shipley pokes a few holes in Microsoft’s latest Vista customer “experiment.”
(tags: windows vista science psychology microsoft marketing)
Interview with a drum hero: Rock Band pro plays all 235 songs in one day
This is insane.
(tags: rockband drums crazy wtf)
Yankees Obtain Rodríguez in Trade for Farnsworth
DUDE, WHAT
(tags: baseball [...]
Dear Apple: Please Make the iPhone’s Native Interface Like the Remote App.
Seriously.
(tags: apple design gui ipod interface music ui iphone remote)
Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
A “beginner’s” look at Ruby on Rails from ALA.
(tags: applications design development guide howto rails ruby programming)
new iPhone nytimes GUI
Awesome little article showing some design document type stuff in the development of the program icons for the new NYT iPhone application. It’s awesome to see how people do so much with so little actual space to work with.
(tags: apple awesome design icons interface iphone ui nytimes gui icon)
Portal: Still Alive heading to Xbox Live Arcade
I demand cake.
(tags: portal xbla xbox360 awesome funny)
Webpages as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
View any web page as a “snowflake” of sorts, displaying tag hierarchies as well as types.
(tags: awesome css visualization graph web html design)
Pimp My Code, Part 15: The Greatest Bug of All
Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster relates perhaps the best bug-hunting story I’ve read in a while. This kind of thing is all too-familiar.
(tags: apple bugs business cocoa design development mac macosx software coredata programming nextstep debug)
Kobayashi T-Shirts
Want.
(tags: clothes kobayashi shirts awesome)
IE6 Independence?
Matt Mullenweg throws out some stats for wordpress.com; it’s clear they still have to support IE6. In regards to questions about the wisdom of 37signals, I wonder if their audience isn’t less IE-heavy in the first place.
(tags: internet wordpress ie web firefox opera safari)
Phasing out support for IE 6 across all 37signals products on August 15, 2008
Yay! It’s about time companies began eliminating the weak link in the browser chain.
(tags: ie microsoft web internet 37signals)
Rumor: More Rock Band 2 tracks listed
Testify.
(tags: rockband music game)
Features are a one-way street
First-hand experience tells me that this is extremely accurate. NEVER be [...]
Hacking WP Super Cache for Speed
A better set of mod-rewrite rules for WordPress MU.
(tags: caching plugin wordpress wordpress-mu wpmu mod-rewrite htaccess)
How Hard Could it Be?: Glory Days
“Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf… He still falls off the board again and again.” [...]
Rumor: Rock Band 2 partial setlist revealed on G4
Everlong? Ace of Spades? Give It Away? Sign me up. Rock Band 2 looks like it’s going to be what I want it to be… more of the same. I can’t wait until the E3 announcement gets out of the way so I know what’s in store.
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Ledger
Sweet theme for Mint that’s black text on a white background using very simple shades for graphs.
(tags: design software mint theme statistics)
Do What You’re Great At
There’s room for everybody out there. Lots of Internet means lots of roles to play and niches to fill.
(tags: news strategy yahoo google business)
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Nifty little graphical utility for creating word “clouds” out of text you have entered or from your del.icio.us tag cloud.
(tags: art awesome visualization cloud design generator)
MDIs on the Mac
Thoughtful article on the (new?) proliferation of MDIs in Mac applications. I agree that it’s a bad thing for Mac usability in general.
(tags: design interface mac osx standards gui)
Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer
To borrow from Gruber: Yes, this is a real headline.
(tags: classic geek microsoft vista windows)
Friends don’t let Friends use TypePad
Comparison of two of the leading blog engines in terms of SEO and usability.
(tags: blogging internet movabletype wordpress typepad seo)
Video arcades’ last gasp
Chicago—one of the last strongholds—is falling.
(tags: business classic games arcade history nintendo xbox namco sega gameland)
“You have to treat your employees like customers”
Amen.
(tags: management software work southwest)
One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics
Neat-o and low-impact way to soften the look of boxes.
(tags: css design google howto html interface)