technology

Side Projects and Distractions

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I know I’ve made this into more a link dump as late - but I try to add a little flavor to my collections, and perhaps it’s time to reveal what’s been taking up my time.
I recently returned from my brother’s wedding in Denver (Congratulations, bro!), was able to enjoy Wynkoop’s
, check out the Denver [...]

MooTools Widget for OS X!

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Okay, I was  a fan of Mac’s Dashboard. When Konfabulator came out, I tried it. Too much of a resource hog. When I saw Vista, I tried to like it again. Nope.
They need to get on it, because it’d be nice to use this MooTools Reference Widget on my work PC and not just my [...]

SezWho - a quick review of privacy

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

SezWho is similar to Disqus. They both manage your commentary content and add a certain level of community. SezWho allows gravatars, and let’s you rate the person commenting - creating the ability for someone to say, be a popular commenter and give them a certain “ribbon” if you will, of credibility (or at least likability).
Personally, I’m [...]

Dropping Disqus

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I’ve broken up with Disqus.
I like what they’re doing - the whole “one-stop shopping for commenting.” It integrated well. It was pretty neat. Lots of sites adopt it.
But I don’t like branding my site with your name. I don’t like being able to not manage my stuff locally. I don’t like you having a log [...]

Is mobile web dead in the water?

Monday, April 14th, 2008

So a few companies are going under.
It’s the general idea that it’s easy to make a site mobile (or at least tweak it to do so). I still feel it’s a little premature to do so, but it’s quite possible mobile is dead in the water - with Google Android and the iPhone, it’s possible [...]