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Dougal is a web developer, and a "Developer Emeritus" for the WordPress platform. When he's not coding PHP, Perl, CSS, JavaScript, or whatnot, he spends time with his wife, three children, a dog, and a cat in their Atlanta area home.

links for 2006-03-28

Mercurial – Mercurial Interesting. Sort of like a peer-to-peer cvs or svn. (tags: sourcecontrol scm programming development tools cvs svn) Videora – BitTorrent RSS Reader Even if you don’t use the downloading utility, they also have a conversion utility that can convert avi and mpeg to the Tivo format. (tags: tivo dvr video bittorrent conversion)

links for 2006-03-25

EarthTools – Find places, sunrise/sunset times, elevation, local time and time zones (tags: geolocation geography maps gis geo webservices gps) Platial.com A location tagging social network service using Google Maps. Or something like that. (tags: folksonomy tags mapping googlemaps location geography geo geolocation maps service mashup)

links for 2006-03-24

Vertical Centering in CSS Here’s a pretty good technique for vertical centering in CSS. My problem right now is that I can’t get it to play nice with the footerStickAlt technique that nails a footer to the bottom of the page. (tags: css web design webdesign vertical center)

links for 2006-03-23

Nifty Corners Cube – freedom to round The third generation of the Nifty Corners technique. Groovy. (tags: web design css corners round javascript js webdesign) Ironic Sans: Idea: Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows Clothing with pre-pixelated logos, so that TV producers don’t have to pixelate them in video production. (tags: clothing shirts tshirts pixelated logos fun humor funny) CSS event:Selectors Another nifty javascript library, based on Behaviour. (tags: css javascript dhtml behaviour prototype js … Continue reading

links for 2006-03-18

Pauker – Flash Card Learning This might be good to have around to help our kids study for tests. (tags: flashcards software java education memory) Spark Fun Electronics Cool electronic components for DIY projects (tags: electronics hardware hacks make sensors diy projects gps wireless) the FeedTree weblog :: Archive :: Calcium: feeding the Coral CDN with FeedTree I once suggested to the Slashdot guys that they should do something like this. They could mitigate the … Continue reading

links for 2006-03-17

slayeroffice | Favelet Suite Favelets live (tags: favelets bookmarklets web development webdev javascript js browsers) Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE Interesting… Create macros to automate actions in Firefox. (tags: firefox extensions selenium ide macros browsers) Layout Gala A collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download (tags: css layout web design templates) Mollio CSS/HTML Templates More CSS templates (tags: css templates webdesign web design)

links for 2006-03-16

Don’t Forget to Plant It! :: Tails Firefox Extension A Firefox extension that can detect and display microformats used in a web page (tags: microformats web firefox extensions semantics) Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service It’s going to be very interesting to see what other services start hooking into this. It’s not free, but it’s affordable enough for developers to play with it. (tags: amazon webservices storage api rest soap scalability) DAG: Tunneling SSH over … Continue reading

Linkitude

The previous post was the first on this site that was auto-generated by the del.icio.us “daily blog posting” feature. Geof has been doing this for a while, and I was already planning to do something like this on my own eventually, anyhow. But I hadn’t gotten a round tuit yet, and since I ran across a couple of links reminding me about this del.icio.us service yesterday, I decided to try it out. I’ve had a … Continue reading

links for 2006-03-15

Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts (tags: fonts free design typography font) KeepVid: Download videos from Google, Youtube, iFilm, Putfile, Metacafe, DailyMotion. This service helps you grab local copies of streaming videos. (tags: video webservice download)

Zeldman on WordPress

Web guru extraordinaire, Jeffrey Zeldman, has spent the last 11 years hand-coding his web site and RSS feeds. No more —Zeldman has switched to WordPress. Now I’m even more miffed that I won’t get to attend AEA Atlanta. So, why did Zeldman choose WordPress? Not because it’s open source. Not because it’s free. He chose WordPress because it lets him write his content without getting in the way. To the extent that a content management … Continue reading