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jQTouch and why the iPhone doesn't need flash

The coolest thing I know about right now is jQTouch, a jQuery framework for implementing mobile web apps. I first saw this at SXSW when its creator showed it off to a crowd that had just finished watching a demo...
Ruminating and dissing on BSG's "The Plan"

I think what I miss most about "Battlestar Galactica" is talking about Battlestar Galactica. Luckily "The Plan" and the now airing Caprica has given me a few more opportunities to join my friends on the Galactica Quorum to do exactly...
Revelations in Battlestar Galactica

Disclaimer: this post contains spoilers. While everyone else is no doubt talking about the season premiere of Lost, I want to talk about something that since its airing, a number of friends have asked that I comment on and write...
Will someone please pass me the hydrospanner?

Thanks to my friend and brother in-law Erik who always manages to send me the best Star Wars links in the world. This time he sent me to a site featuring a do-it-yourself, cut-out of the Millennium Falcon created and...
Movable Type is whatever you want it to be

What has always drawn me to Movable Type is its flexibility. Most of the time we, that is Six Apart: my employer and creator of Movable Type, talk and think about MT's flexibility in terms of the web sites it...
Amazing Remote Screen Cleaner

You will be amazed by this amazing new technology that can actually help clean your computer monitor over the Internet. It is shocking that it has not yet been covered by TechCrunch. Instructions: Expand your browser window to fill the...
Decoding BSG's Last Supper

Entertainment Weekly just released an issue featuring a two page tableau and poster made for the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica. The image purportedly contains clues to the secrets season four promises to reveal. Arin and I always...
A Better Galactica Podcast

Last year I was on the hunt for a good Battlestar Galactica podcast. The selection was not the best in the world - not in grand scheme of podcasts, but there was one that stood out from the rest. Galactica...
mod_perlite working!

I have had a theory for a long time that perl based CGI scripts could be sped up considerably by simply by keeping the interpreter resident in memory. Not only that, but the module that makes that possible wouldn't be...
How to Fix CGI

Over the many years of their coexistence, the terms CGI and Perl have become virtually synonymous. This perception that CGI and Perl are one and the same has contributed to some small degree to the perception that Perl is outdated...
My Hackathon Log

Every Wednesday at Six Apart is a hackathon day giving engineers, and others for that matter, 20% of their week to work on anything they want. Today I am trying to knock off a number of different utilities, apps and...
Mint: a review

About five years ago I abandoned the last of my brick-and-mortar financial institutions so that I could manage my money exclusively online. I left Bank of America in favor of eTrade because I believed that as a modern Internet...
The Story Behind TypePad and MT4's iPhone Apps

Today we (Six Apart) announced support for specially crafted versions of TypePad and Movable Type for iPhone users. It will be easy for commentators and critics to get wrapped up in the design and features of these applications, and...
Single Sign On with Movable Type

Last week I was in New York participating in a Movable Type Hackathon and Blogging Summit I helped to organize. While I wasn't planning on presenting at the summit, fate had another opinion on the matter. In the end I...
How to Dramatically Speed Up Your Web Application: An Introduction to memcached

Six Apart often speaks of how its technology and contributions to open source help many of the most popular Internet applications scale to unprecedented levels. One of these tools is memcached, yet as important and ubiquitous as it is, it...
One step closer to a blog HTML standard

As a long time advocate for a blog HTML standard, it is exciting to see that Drupal has adopted support for the Six Apart HTML standard that I work really hard to get as much of Six Apart to adopt...
I'm on Galactica Watercooler!

Not satisfied with watching Battlestar Galactica once on Friday, sometimes a second time on Sunday, and then listening to Ron Moore's podcast on Monday on my way to work, I took it upon myself to scour the Internet for additional...
Powered by Perl

About eight months ago when Harper was born I got a surprise package in the mail from a friend, and ever since I have been waiting for the chance for Harper to be big enough to wear it. He...
Atom Publishing Protocol's 12th Draft

The Atom Working Group, that I once participated in much more heavily, just recently published the Atom Publishing Protocol Specification draft 12. This may very well be the draft that goes to "last call" which would officially start the process...
Announcing "My PHP Google Checkout"

I bet for many people looking to start an online store think of PayPal first. I remember when PayPal first debuted in 1998 when it fueled a renaissance in Internet commerce by enabling the long tail of retail - second...
Six Apart Podcast

Earlier this week I talked about how I have been "experimenting" with podcasting. I wrote a little how to on the subject and introduced people to the Professional Network Podcast I produced a couple of weeks ago. Today I sat...
Join me at the Global Movable Type Hack-a-thon!

This coming Tuesday I am organizing a Movable Type Hack-a-thon at the Six Apart offices. A "hackathon" is an event in which a bunch of engineers get together and each commit themselves to build something. Anything. Whatever they want. And...
How to make a podcast

Working at Six Apart I take for granted how connected (or unconnected for that matter) people in the world are. I work in an office which often gives me the feeling that I am living in some William Gibson novel...
Alpha and Beta Testing

In early October I had the honor of speaking to a class of MBA students studying product management at the Haas School of Business. Michael Sippey recommended me as a speaker last year, which in my book is high praise,...
What's up with all the javascript widgets?

A coworker asked me today, "dude, what's up with the javascript tag widget?" I am not sure what they meant, but since they asked... I have been doing a lot more work with Javascript lately and I discovered something I...
Google Calendar and OpenSearch

Seeing the new features in Google Calendar spurred me to dig a little deeper into Google’s Atom documentation, because the last time I checked, they hadn’t yet published any. For a geek like me, their documentation was actually fun...
Make your Atom feeds pretty!

I have always been impressed with the ingenuity behind FeedBurner’s rendering of “burned feeds.” Using a simple XSL stylesheet, Feedburner instructs browsers to render unintelligible XML feeds into a human-readable HTML format. The tech is cool enough and easy enough...
Standardizing the Atom Thread Extension

I have been an advocate for the Atom Feed Thread extension for quite sometime, and am an active developer of it. Within Six Apart I have helped deploy the extension across over 1 million Friendster blogs, I have developed my...
Announcing Feed Manager for Movable Type

In my work with the Atom Working Group, which I admit, has been scant recently, I have become really impressed with the number of Atom Extensions being defined and developed by the community - a testament to Atom’s extensibility. One...
Personalize Your Comments

The onslaught of comments I received when I posted about Harper made me realize how few people have their own personal photo that can be displayed along side their comments on majordojo and any other blog that uses the Gravatar...
Oh Firefly, why do you have to be so good?

My guilty and nerdy pleasure for the past two weeks has been staying up hacking on Test Run and watching Firefly. So how many times can I watch this series? Let's see: Once to simply watch the series all the...
Gluttony for Punishment

I have finally pulled the trigger on ushering the process of getting TrackBack accepted as a core Internet standard. I may feel differently in a couple months, but for some reason I have always wanted to be a key player...
In search of the ultimate home media center

Here was I want for my home media center: Slim profile, something that can live alongside a desktop computer, or be tucked away easily on my desk Always on and something Windows XP and Linux can connect to Lots of...

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Recent Entries in Geeky Goodness

jQTouch and why the iPhone doesn't need flash

The coolest thing I know about right now is jQTouch, a jQuery framework for implementing mobile web apps. I first saw this at SXSW when its creator showed it off to a crowd that had just finished watching a demo...

Ruminating and dissing on BSG's "The Plan"

I think what I miss most about "Battlestar Galactica" is talking about Battlestar Galactica. Luckily "The Plan" and the now airing Caprica has given me a few more opportunities to join my friends on the Galactica Quorum to do exactly...

Revelations in Battlestar Galactica

Disclaimer: this post contains spoilers. While everyone else is no doubt talking about the season premiere of Lost, I want to talk about something that since its airing, a number of friends have asked that I comment on and write...

Will someone please pass me the hydrospanner?

Thanks to my friend and brother in-law Erik who always manages to send me the best Star Wars links in the world. This time he sent me to a site featuring a do-it-yourself, cut-out of the Millennium Falcon created and...

Movable Type is whatever you want it to be

What has always drawn me to Movable Type is its flexibility. Most of the time we, that is Six Apart: my employer and creator of Movable Type, talk and think about MT's flexibility in terms of the web sites it...

Amazing Remote Screen Cleaner

You will be amazed by this amazing new technology that can actually help clean your computer monitor over the Internet. It is shocking that it has not yet been covered by TechCrunch. Instructions: Expand your browser window to fill the...

Decoding BSG's Last Supper

Entertainment Weekly just released an issue featuring a two page tableau and poster made for the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica. The image purportedly contains clues to the secrets season four promises to reveal. Arin and I always...

A Better Galactica Podcast

Last year I was on the hunt for a good Battlestar Galactica podcast. The selection was not the best in the world - not in grand scheme of podcasts, but there was one that stood out from the rest. Galactica...

mod_perlite working!

I have had a theory for a long time that perl based CGI scripts could be sped up considerably by simply by keeping the interpreter resident in memory. Not only that, but the module that makes that possible wouldn't be...

How to Fix CGI

Over the many years of their coexistence, the terms CGI and Perl have become virtually synonymous. This perception that CGI and Perl are one and the same has contributed to some small degree to the perception that Perl is outdated...

My Hackathon Log

Every Wednesday at Six Apart is a hackathon day giving engineers, and others for that matter, 20% of their week to work on anything they want. Today I am trying to knock off a number of different utilities, apps and...

Mint: a review

About five years ago I abandoned the last of my brick-and-mortar financial institutions so that I could manage my money exclusively online. I left Bank of America in favor of eTrade because I believed that as a modern Internet...

The Story Behind TypePad and MT4's iPhone Apps

Today we (Six Apart) announced support for specially crafted versions of TypePad and Movable Type for iPhone users. It will be easy for commentators and critics to get wrapped up in the design and features of these applications, and...

Single Sign On with Movable Type

Last week I was in New York participating in a Movable Type Hackathon and Blogging Summit I helped to organize. While I wasn't planning on presenting at the summit, fate had another opinion on the matter. In the end I...

How to Dramatically Speed Up Your Web Application: An Introduction to memcached

Six Apart often speaks of how its technology and contributions to open source help many of the most popular Internet applications scale to unprecedented levels. One of these tools is memcached, yet as important and ubiquitous as it is, it...

One step closer to a blog HTML standard

As a long time advocate for a blog HTML standard, it is exciting to see that Drupal has adopted support for the Six Apart HTML standard that I work really hard to get as much of Six Apart to adopt...

I'm on Galactica Watercooler!

Not satisfied with watching Battlestar Galactica once on Friday, sometimes a second time on Sunday, and then listening to Ron Moore's podcast on Monday on my way to work, I took it upon myself to scour the Internet for additional...

Powered by Perl

About eight months ago when Harper was born I got a surprise package in the mail from a friend, and ever since I have been waiting for the chance for Harper to be big enough to wear it. He...

Atom Publishing Protocol's 12th Draft

The Atom Working Group, that I once participated in much more heavily, just recently published the Atom Publishing Protocol Specification draft 12. This may very well be the draft that goes to "last call" which would officially start the process...

Announcing "My PHP Google Checkout"

I bet for many people looking to start an online store think of PayPal first. I remember when PayPal first debuted in 1998 when it fueled a renaissance in Internet commerce by enabling the long tail of retail - second...

Six Apart Podcast

Earlier this week I talked about how I have been "experimenting" with podcasting. I wrote a little how to on the subject and introduced people to the Professional Network Podcast I produced a couple of weeks ago. Today I sat...

Join me at the Global Movable Type Hack-a-thon!

This coming Tuesday I am organizing a Movable Type Hack-a-thon at the Six Apart offices. A "hackathon" is an event in which a bunch of engineers get together and each commit themselves to build something. Anything. Whatever they want. And...

How to make a podcast

Working at Six Apart I take for granted how connected (or unconnected for that matter) people in the world are. I work in an office which often gives me the feeling that I am living in some William Gibson novel...

Alpha and Beta Testing

In early October I had the honor of speaking to a class of MBA students studying product management at the Haas School of Business. Michael Sippey recommended me as a speaker last year, which in my book is high praise,...

What's up with all the javascript widgets?

A coworker asked me today, "dude, what's up with the javascript tag widget?" I am not sure what they meant, but since they asked... I have been doing a lot more work with Javascript lately and I discovered something I...

Google Calendar and OpenSearch

Seeing the new features in Google Calendar spurred me to dig a little deeper into Google’s Atom documentation, because the last time I checked, they hadn’t yet published any. For a geek like me, their documentation was actually fun...

Make your Atom feeds pretty!

I have always been impressed with the ingenuity behind FeedBurner’s rendering of “burned feeds.” Using a simple XSL stylesheet, Feedburner instructs browsers to render unintelligible XML feeds into a human-readable HTML format. The tech is cool enough and easy enough...

Standardizing the Atom Thread Extension

I have been an advocate for the Atom Feed Thread extension for quite sometime, and am an active developer of it. Within Six Apart I have helped deploy the extension across over 1 million Friendster blogs, I have developed my...

Announcing Feed Manager for Movable Type

In my work with the Atom Working Group, which I admit, has been scant recently, I have become really impressed with the number of Atom Extensions being defined and developed by the community - a testament to Atom’s extensibility. One...

Personalize Your Comments

The onslaught of comments I received when I posted about Harper made me realize how few people have their own personal photo that can be displayed along side their comments on majordojo and any other blog that uses the Gravatar...

Oh Firefly, why do you have to be so good?

My guilty and nerdy pleasure for the past two weeks has been staying up hacking on Test Run and watching Firefly. So how many times can I watch this series? Let's see: Once to simply watch the series all the...

Gluttony for Punishment

I have finally pulled the trigger on ushering the process of getting TrackBack accepted as a core Internet standard. I may feel differently in a couple months, but for some reason I have always wanted to be a key player...

In search of the ultimate home media center

Here was I want for my home media center: Slim profile, something that can live alongside a desktop computer, or be tucked away easily on my desk Always on and something Windows XP and Linux can connect to Lots of...