Posts under ‘Techie’

I speculated a while age that the introduction of Spotlight in Tiger would eliminate the need for one of my favorite applications, Launchbar.
It turns out that I was wrong — they serve different purposes. When I know the name of what I want (be it a song, person’s phone number, or application), Launchbar is much [...]

I installed Tiger this morning, and I think I have found my first accessibility nugget (at least I have never seen any mention of it on Apple’s Accessibility page.
In the “International” preference pane, on the “Input” tab, there is an option for “keyboard viewer”. This look and acts as an on-screen keyboard. I am pretty [...]

I sent the following to all the sites I host earlier this afternoon. Needless to say, it has been a stressful few days.
You have no doubt noticed by now that your website has been down since Monday (12/20) at approximately 8 pm EST. I am writing to explain what happened, why it happened, and what [...]

Yesterday, I attended the Boston WordPress Meetup and met some very cool bloggers, inncluding Nikki, Peter, Matt, Ben, me, Marty, and Matt May. Matt May is the only one that I knew, and it was great to see him again.
Peter took some pictures to record the event. I was so excited to meet Matt [...]

I just got an advanced copy of FrontPage 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies — the third title by John Mueller where I was the technical editor.

The importance of fixing “broken windows” in your code — also known as “a justification for being anal?”

As Richard notes, The Indy Star, an Indianapolis newspaper had a short blurb about our web application Confusing Words in their Indiana Living, Cool dot com section in the 10/9/04 edition. They think its cool now? They aint seen nothin’ yet.

I have immersed myself in the technical details of Wordpress for about 4 months now. I am a person that learns by example, and that is why I thrive on open source software.
In my “hacking”, I have created two plugins that I think are pretty cool and might even be useful by others (they are to [...]

I just read an interesting review of by Alex King and Mambo Server, and it is nice to see someone that shares my opinion.
I selected Mambo as the engine for Adaptive Environments about a year and a half ago. By the time we launched, the Mambo-ishness of the site is barely recognizable. [...]

I just read about Fagan Finder’s URLinfo in this week’s ResearchBuzz.
It is a rich compendium of tools to get tons of information on any url. I was especially surprised (yet gladdened) to see many of the accessibility validators — a term I use reluctantly — on the “Develop” tab.