Monthly Archives: December 2005

More Firefoxness for bloggers: Performancing’s blog plugin

 Performancing’s blog plugin is really productive for bloggers. Get it. Quick. Then hit F8. (Um, you need Firefox, of course. It’s XUL.) It’s the blog plugin to end all others.
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Getting old: Band battles are for kids

Jason writes about Battle of the Bands and how he and Goaty (the wife) studies the kids. Goaty had a good time identifying cliques and social heirarchies in the various fast-moving packs. I had a good time watching the performers pull out moves they had [...]
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Skype creates extra stuff, viral marketing

Some of the genius of Skype is their very open attitude to their corporate story. People like telling it, and it is “viral-enabled” already in itself. My Dad can tell it to me. But when they also create very easy-to-use buttons and widgets [...]
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Mapping fun for your blog

Now testing FeedMap, another geo-location + blogs application on the web. Via [Daen](http://www.daen.dk/)’s sidebar.
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More useful JS: Prototype revisited

OK, for those of you watching from the sidelines, remember when we talked about the Prototype framework, and I said it could be done slicker? I am now correcting those little errors. First of all, I was not using enough parts of Prototype, and so I was doing unnecessary stuff, and also, I was leaving [...]
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Drupal + CakePHP = Drake

Tutorial for using Drupal and CakePHP together, written by Felix Geisendörfer. A match made in heaven?
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DHH handles trollish comments well

Yeah, [Ruby on Rails is 1.0](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2005/12/13/rails-1-0-party-like-its-one-oh-oh) Someone comments on the project’s website running PHP: > How’s this deployment of PHP based “RoR website” related to believing in your own technology, I ask? And the project lead answers: > We’re running PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby on this machine. Picking and choosing for whatever task is a good fit. [...]
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Plazes hiring x 2

[Plazes](http://www.plazes.com/), the geolocation service, are hiring now. [A C++/Qt developer](http://blog.plazes.com/?p=87) and a [Linux box man](http://blog.plazes.com/?p=89). Are they really making money? Who gave them VC?
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Prototype grows on me

Usually, these days I add a comment to a Delicious link, building on the mountain of metadata of the commons, but this calls for more verbose plappering: Prototype Meets Ruby: A Look at Enumerable, Array and Hash from the [Encytemedia blog](http://encytemedia.com/blog/), written by Justin Palmer. The [Prototype](http://prototype.conio.net/) Javascript framework implements a lot of the “language [...]
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Jason, the humour man: “A Miguel Morayta Film”

This is a service announcement: Jason has a new Prawnwarp, it became a Wordpress. Happy for him. The link above goes to his great Mexican Movie Generator.
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