So it’s official. I’m working on Soashable. Not going to replace my current job, but it’s going to be a big focus for me now. It’s basically an opensource clone of meebo. It allows you to use your instant messaging accounts through a web interface.
Right now I’m mainly working design, research, [...]
In thinking about using OpenID with TYWYK I’m now thinking about security issues with it.
OpenID is really just about as insecure as email is for authenticating. Anyone can create an OpenID server (just like a mail server) and as many users as they want (just like a mail server). OpenID is not a [...]
There’s no good tail -f equivalent for commandline in Windows. I’ve tried the following with success. All are free:
Lightweight and my favorite for now, pretty easy to customize: BareTail
Very lightweight: Tail for Win32
Somewhat more heavyweight and customizable. Easy to change highlight colors: MakeLogic Tail
All of these have tabbed/multi-buffer interfaces.
Just download one [...]
For TYWYK I wanted to prevent spam early on, but still allow anyone to post. I chose using a CAPTCHA. I’m using Jason Perry’s ReCAPTCHA plugin which uses ReCAPTCHA.
It’s pretty straightforward. Just read the README and all the comments on agilewebdevelopment and you should be good to go!
Only gotcha that I ran [...]
So I downloaded Safari 3.1 for Windows today and I started playing with the “Develop Menu”. You can enable it through Edit>Preferences>Advanced and check “Show develop menu in menu bar”.
The network profiler thing on this is an amazing piece of work. If you’re ever looking to do a performance assessment of a website [...]
I often try to find ways to get back to nature in my life. It may seem odd that my job involves me spending all day on my computer, but I really do try to incorporate the old ways of the world. There’s a lot of ancient wisdom that has been lost for [...]
I’ve used MRTG in the past. It’s cool, but it’s hell to configure. I just need something simple for a single server that just works.
Munin rules.. especially if you’re on Ubuntu/Debian. It’s good for monitoring multiple servers or just one. Here’s a demo.
Install is pretty much:
sudo apt-get install munin munin-node
Pretty much [...]
The more time I spend on the internet after having an OpenID account the more I get annoyed. There are tons of places that should allow you to login using it: anywhere you post comments, review sites, anywhere that you would post content only once or twice, anywhere that you would use only [...]
These are recordings of the South By Southwest interactive festival 2008. Lots of good content here about design, startups, business, programming, gaming and other tech stuff.
http://2008.sxsw.com/coverage/podcasts/
Not all of them are uploaded yet, but most of them are. They’re trying to get more up.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SXSWpodcasts here’s an rss feed if you want to keep [...]
This is incredible. There are so many apps that you need tabs for. WinTabber will let you create them for any that you want. On top of that it has opacity settings and such. Check out the demo.
I wanted tabbed putty windows. Now I have them!
