I’ve updated the web site to use WordPress and essentially duplicate the functionality of the old site (with some nice new features). In order to do this, I looked to a couple, handy, plugins: WP-Tags – As a warning, there’s a couple modules with this name, this particular one happens to work the best. You […]
Comment · Posted: April 4th, 2005
I just signed up for the brand-new evdb to see what it’s like (there’s been quite some hype surrounding it. However, I was sorely disappointed. Below is a copy of the email that I sent to their ‘bugs’ email address, notifying them of the problems. And now that I think about it – there’s no […]
Comment · Posted: March 30th, 2005
The big news of the weekend was the release of the Delicious Tag Auto-Complete extension using Greasemonkey. Friday afternoon, Julia mentioned the fact that an auto-complete utility for delicious would be very handy. So, a couple hours later, I had hacked one together, using Greasemoneky as the delivery device. I publicized it through the delicious […]
Comment · Posted: March 28th, 2005
At the last Social Computing Club meeting an interesting idea came up for discussion. We were trying to figure out what the easiest possible way to schedule an event could be. But in order to do so, we needed to figure out where people got their event notifications from, so I’ve compiled a mini-list. Email […]
Comment · Posted: March 28th, 2005
I’ve been doing a lot of SQL work on the Schedule Maker these past couple of days, when I realized something. The SQL query for a relatively common command is going to be absolutely huge! Observe: That’s six joins. Insane. Especially since I was planning on having the results of this query be the main […]
Comment · Posted: March 24th, 2005
Even though I was terribly busy, I still managed to make a number of project updates this weekend. Most of the updates were just writing up some documentation and getting them out the door, but that’s something. FOAF Layout – Did a possible FOAF layout for Bob Aman. I wanted a clean, concise, layout which […]
Comment · Posted: March 20th, 2005
Something that I’ve been tinkering around with the past couple of days is the concept of providing visual cues to associate a name with a face, so to speak. For example, I find it to be much easier, mentally, to make the connection between someones face and who they are then someone’s cryptic username (which, […]
Comment · Posted: March 14th, 2005
This past week, Google updated their Desktop Search software to much acclaim. The most notable update that was given (in the eyes of developers) was the addition of a programmable API to plug into this search utility. In a nutshell, it is now possible to index any file type that you desire and then search […]
Comment · Posted: March 12th, 2005
