Archive for July, 2009

Bookmarked this week

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Anil Dash writes about the future of the web. He calls it Pushbutton Web. A great read. Hi Impact with Low Effort SEO (from a developer’s perspective). From the SEOMoz site. Huge, huge, photos that you can zoom into. You can find some pretty stuff in there. Gigapixel Photography. ActionScript 3 tutorials and videos with [...]

Inspire Commerce – a B Corporation for credit card processing

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Just found out today that my good friend Casey Capshaw is working on a new project called Inspire Commerce. It’s a Merchant Service Provider service with a freaking twist… they give 10% of their profits to charity. These guys are not only good at what they do and have amazing rates but they’re a B [...]

A collector of beauty

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Make sure to grab Antoxic.org‘s feed to get a daily dose of beautiful imagery.

Weekend reading

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Do Little Things First is a fantastic post by Alex King on why getting small things done on web development projects is a good idea (great read). How teenagers consume media Worth. Taking care of clients. It’s worth it.

My ever changing WordPress Plugin list

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

WordPress is a world of plugins. I come from developing sites in Expression Engine and therefore I’m used to hand coding a lot of stuff. But in WordPress plugins is the way to go. From embedding .swf movies to writing some custom inline JavaScript in a bog post —everything is done by plugins. So this [...]

The end of browser wars?

Monday, July 13th, 2009

A great post on using the right browser for the job.

Experimenting with flash embedding in WordPress

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Google Chrome OS – What people want according to Google

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The post where Google announced the launching of their new Operating System has a brief description of what people want from their computers. It’s a good summary of the tough demands people have on machines today: People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers [...]

Nice overview of Google Page Speed and Yahoo’s YSlow

Monday, July 6th, 2009

This post at The Web Squeeze is a very good overview of the site optimization tips given by both Yahoo’s YSlow and the new competitor Google Page Speed.

Happiness booster

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Something about this version of Solsburry Hill by Peter Gabriel brings a good mood to me. It’s the relaxed and playful way in which they deal with the song and it’s subject. Oh, and Tony Levin‘s big ass smile and mustache.