Archive for the ‘sites’ Category
New Krypted.com
I just can’t help myself. Every now and then I get a bug up my butt to go messing around with Krypted.com. In this case, I was tired of looking at some broken elements from the page and the front end of the site in general (just felt like something I might have built in [...]
No More Mingling
I’m just not that social. Therefore, I have removed Mingle, the social networking aspect of Krypted.com. I may reintroduce something like this in the future, but for now it seems that it’s just a source of frustration… Get MacTech
In: sites · Tagged with: mingle, Social Networking, spam
Forums on Joomla
There are tons of plug-ins that you can install with Joomla to get a good, integrated forum. I would recommend that you experiment around with a few on a test site that runs the same version of Joomla as your production site before you go into full production. As a general rule, if it’s a [...]
In: sites · Tagged with: agora, joomla, kunena, phpbb
Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
I write a lot. There are the meanderings that appear on this site, the writing on the 318 TechJournal, more structured prose that goes into books (sometimes regrettably only slightly more structured), writing for clients, freelance writing, writing for other websites and even a bit of ghost writing here and there. Sometimes the writing is [...]
In: Articles and Books, personal, sites · Tagged with: Writing
10 Worst MySpace Apps
One of the contributors to the success that Facebook has had in the social networking world is the ability for savvy developers to build applications. MySpace has been picking up scraps from the Facebook strategy for some time and has followed suit with the ability to integrate custom applications. Now that MySpace has more than [...]
In: Social Networking, sites · Tagged with: 10 worst myspace applications, API, Facebook, myspace apps, toprated
MySpace RSS Integration
MySpace won’t die. Good. Competition breeds innovation and if social networks are to continue to become more and more useful then a somewhat healthy MySpace is simply going to keep the cog wheels turning in the otherwise spiderweb filled heads of talented engineers. MySpace introduced applications awhile back and there is now a pretty ample [...]
In: Social Networking, sites · Tagged with: feed, howto, integration, myspace, rss
Xsanity Article on XsanDebugged
Posted a little article on the XsanDebugged tool over at Xsanity. Thanks to Aaron for approving it. Hope you enjoy the tool!
In: Xsan, sites · Tagged with: /Library/FileSystems/Xsan/data, dmg, email logs, logs, Mac OS X, xsandebugged, Xsanity
Stats vs. Anonymity
I could spend all my time reviewing site statistics or I could just write some articles. I typically choose to do the later. But occasionally (typically about once a month) I’ll look at the statistics for the site. Typically it’s just to see if the world is still an insane place and if people still [...]
In: Mac Security, sites · Tagged with: anonymity, anonymous, icucme, icuseeme, Mac OS X, tor, web analytics
More jQuery Goodness
jQuery is also a great solution for interconnecting various graphical elements and making them do things, like go get you coffee. One such aspect of what you can do is tilt graphics, assign perspective to them and have fluid controller motions. For example, the following script will perform somewhat of a vertical version of coverflow [...]
In: WordPress, sites · Tagged with: coverflow, JavaScript, jquery, Vertical
Leveraging jQuery for Input Validation
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use at this point, finding its way into something around 20% of the largest websites in the world. One of the main reasons for this is that much of jQuery is meant to allow for working between JavaScript and Ajax. As such it often ends up getting [...]
In: Consulting, WordPress, sites · Tagged with: alphanumeric, input validation, jquery
