Category Archives: links

links for 2008-10-01

Google - 2001
Only available for the month of October; take a spin and check out both the old design and the oldest available index Google had to offer. This is the web as Google saw it in 2001.
(tags: web search internet history google geek awesome)

links for 2008-09-30

WordPress 2.7 Comments Enhancements
A list of the upcoming changes to WordPress's Comments system in WP 2.7, as well as the logic that must be added to themes for them to work properly with the new threading and AJAX-based posting.
(tags: wordpress tutorial theme howto)

GUIdebook
Great resource with screenshots and text describing various types of graphical user interfaces. [...]

links for 2008-09-29

Survey: companies should give a Tweet, join social web
An Ars Technica article referencing a survey showcasing that customers would like to be reached on social networking sites: but they don't want to be particularly marketed to - they want to be pleased with customer service.
If you serve them and give them a nice experience, that [...]

links for 2008-09-07

jParallax
Nifty but questionably useful Javascript for doing a parallax-scroll-style effect on moving your mouse over a set of layered images.
(tags: web ui programming plugin javascript)

2008 Commission on Worship Institute Photo Gallery
A bunch of photos taken at the 2008 Institute, at which I was a presenter and participant. (Not taken by me.)
(tags: photos commissiononworship lcms lutheran)

links for 2008-08-31

Opentape
Open source self-hosted idea based on the ill-fated Muxtape.
(tags: social opensource music javascript free web software)

links for 2008-08-24

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: [...]

links for 2008-08-14

David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08
DHH gives a talk about Web startups.
(tags: web video ruby programming rails presentation marketing)

links for 2008-08-13

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 [...]

links for 2008-08-08 [delicious.com]

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)

links for 2008-08-07 [delicious.com]

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 [...]

links for 2008-08-04 [delicious.com]

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 [...]

links for 2008-07-31

“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 [...]

links for 2008-07-29

Dear Apple: Please Make the iPhone’s Native Interface Like the Remote App.
Seriously.
(tags: apple design gui ipod interface music ui iphone remote)

links for 2008-07-27

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)

links for 2008-07-16

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)

links for 2008-07-15

Portal: Still Alive heading to Xbox Live Arcade
I demand cake.
(tags: portal xbla xbox360 awesome funny)

links for 2008-07-10

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)

links for 2008-07-08

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)

links for 2008-07-05

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)

links for 2008-07-04

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 [...]

links for 2008-07-03

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.” [...]

links for 2008-07-02

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.
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-06-29

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)

links for 2008-06-25

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)

links for 2008-06-24

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)