Monthly Archives: August 2009

links for 2009-08-26

links for 2009-08-18

  • WP-CMS is a plugin for WordPress that changes the functionality of the WordPress admin backend to act more like a CMS. The blog functionality becomes optional and the focus is on writing pages to make WordPress as user friendly for you and your clients as possible.
  • This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to WordPress' image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded
  • Like windirstat but better named and not for windows.
  • Post Event allows you to define event information (date, location, schedule…) directly in the post administration page. All event information is automatically displayed in the post page (single.php), including Google Maps AND iCal link (integration in your agenda) without any code modification!

    It is very usefull (Google Maps and iCal integration), high-performance and can be use for any event. We have based the development on wordpress structure, without any modification of the database (events details are loaded as meta of the posts). The plugin is provided in english and french but can be translated in any languages (.po file included).

  • SelectorGadget is an open source bookmarklet that makes CSS selector generation and discovery on complicated sites a breeze. Just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, then go to any page and press it. A box will open in the bottom right of the website. Click on a page element that you would like your selector to match (it will turn green). SelectorGadget will then generate a minimal CSS selector for that element, and will highlight (yellow) everything that is matched by the selector. Now click on a highlighted element to remove it from the selector (red), or click on an unhighlighted element to add it to the selector. Through this process of selection and rejection, SelectorGadget helps you come up with the perfect CSS selector for your needs.

Six Years Ago Today

At the Danger's  "Rights of Passage" party

I went to the most important party ever.

It was in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I wasn’t going to go, you weren’t going to go. It was a “come as a rockstar” party and I came as the world’s worst Billy Idol (black hair, t-shirt and camo shorts – only the sneer was close) and you came as nothing like Annie Lennox.

Somehow you’ve stuck with me and put up with me. I’m not the easiest person to get along with – but you are. I can’t be anything but a better person when I’m around you.

Today, I’m celebrating the best six years of my life, and looking forward to the rest of it.

I love you Sam and I’ll always be thankful for rooftops and Wesley Willis.

links for 2009-08-13

LibraryThing, Books, and Planning

I’ve been using the excellent librarything to keep track of my books. I’ll be building a self-hosted version of it Real Soon Now, but until then, I’m putting what I read in there. I’d gotten a bit of feedback from my vast hordes of readers that they are interested in what I read, so you can see reviews as they happen over there on the sidebar of mah blurg. Why librarything instead of GoodReads or Visual Bookshelf or the like?  Because they will export your library back out for you.

If I decide to change over to a new system, I’ll want an easy way to get MY data back out.   Always consider your exit strategy.