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.
A pure CSS solution to truncating text in a container, with the ability to overlay an ellipsis and even a “read more” link. The only caveat is that you must maintain vertical rhythm in your text.
This JavaScript library for handling AJAX looks pretty sweet. Nice API, and seems to handle just about any situation you could think of. Works both on client-side (browsers) and server-side (node.js).
I keep meaning to try out Tammy Hart’s Recipress plugin, which lets you manage recipes using WordPress. My wife and I often share recipes with friends and family, and this could be a fun way to track everything, instead of emailing PDFs around.
SubGit is a service you can run on a git server that automatically manages dual-hosting a project in Git and Subversion, easing the pain of using the standard git-svn tool. If only it worked with projects hosted on GitHub…