Okay Lazyweb, help me find what I’m looking for. I want a mobile shopping/todo list app that my wife and I can both use to keep shared lists. I’ve got an iPhone, Susan has a Blackberry Curve — it should be easy to use on either of those devices. And of course, we’d want to be able to edit our lists via our desktop web browsers, as well.
It should:
- support multiple lists
- support sharing lists between multiple people
- make it super easy to check off items
- be able to sync the latest list updates from anywhere
- be easy to use on iPhone, Blackberry, or any web browser
- be inexpensive
It doesn’t have to have (but could):
- support store-specific lists
- be aware of what aisle items are on
- support recipe ingredient lists or meal planning functions
- support item categories within lists
I looked at a few list applications for the iPhone in the App Store, and I did some searches on the general intarwebs, but the apps I found all fell down in some way. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Applications, Mobile, Services
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Also tagged apps, blackberry, iPhone, Lists, Mobile, sharing, shopping, sync, webservice
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December 18, 2007 – 12:26 pm
I get to unwrap one of my presents early this year, and it ranks up there with some of the best — a new job! I’ll be working with Alex King and the other fine folks at Crowd Favorite. I’m really excited to have the opportunity to work with this crew to tackle some great projects.
Four years ago, when I joined in on the development of WordPress, it was just a fun thing to do on the side. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in CrowdFavorite, Personal, WordPress, Work
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Also tagged app, CrowdFavorite, Development, Jobs, Perl, PHP, Programming, WordPress, Work
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September 22, 2007 – 11:15 am
Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. But let’s examine what tags and categories are, how they are similar, how they are different, and why you might choose to use one system over the other, or use them together.
By Dougal
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Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Search, Semantics, Tech, WordPress
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Also tagged API, delicious, Folksonomies, Metadata, plugin, Plugins, Politics, Tags, taxonomy, Technorati, WordPress
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When I’m putting a new web site together, one thing that sometimes bugs me is choosing which fonts to use. I’ll typically throw together a list of fonts that I like, decide to use this set of serif fonts for these page elements, and that set of sans-serif fonts for those other elements, select some fallback choices for my stylesheet, and let it go at that. Obviously, I’m no designer — or I’d be saying ‘typeface’ instead of ‘font’ — but I’d like to be able to make ‘better’ choices for my fonts.
I’ve done a little bit of searching, but I haven’t found what I’m looking for. [...]
About two weeks ago, I started a new job (which explains at least part of my blogging lull, you see). I’m working on Free IQ, which is a streaming media site for entrepreneurs. There’s more to it than just the streaming media (you can upload video, audio, PDF files, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), but I’m still learning the ins and outs, so I don’t know the full scope yet.
When I interviewed, they were favorably impressed by the fact that I’m a WordPress developer. [...]
February 13, 2007 – 2:01 pm
Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. There seems to be a buglet in the functions that attempt to automagically add the OpenID login fields to the comment form. So I had to disable that option and manually edit my comment template file to insert the appropriate bits. I don’t like having to modify the theme files (it’s going to make it harder to upgrade when a new version of Sandbox comes out), but that was my best solution, short-term.
In other news, Microsoft is working on interoperability between OpenID and their CardSpace™ framework. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress
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Also tagged FOAF, hCard, Identity, Microsoft, PHP, plugin, Sandbox, SingleSignOn, SSO, WordPress, yahoo
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February 7, 2007 – 1:46 pm
Reinvigorate’s Hourly Stats
About a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote about how the Reinvigorate web stats service was entering a private beta, and I hoped to get a chance to try it out. I applied to the private beta program and waited. And waited. [...]
January 23, 2007 – 11:54 am
Over the last few days, it’s possible that you might have tried to visit this site and gotten a blank page. It’s not you, it’s me. Or more precisely, it’s my server, and my attempts to eek a little more performance out of it.
The problem seems to come from APC (Alternative PHP Cache). I’m not absolutely sure why it decides to crap out on me like that, but I suspect that the real root of the problem might be some old supporting libraries on this server that need to be updated. [...]
January 22, 2007 – 11:31 pm
Hot off the presses is the latest feature release of our favorite blogware: WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. You can find a bore-you-to-tears detailed list of bugfixes and feature changes in the Milestone report over on Trac. But here’s my version of the short list of changes:
- Tabbed WYSIWYG/Code editing: You can now easily switch back and forth between the WYSIWIG (AKA: RTE, or “Rich Text Editor”) and the old-style editor with quicktags.
- Autosave: When editing posts, your changes are automatically saved every two minutes, as long as you’ve set a title.
- Spellcheck: The RTE now includes a spelling checker. [...]
