On hiatus, with parting links
On this first day of July, I am officially putting this blog on hiatus until 2011. But you can still follow @iancavalier on Twitter or Flickr or 8tracks or Yelp or blah blah social media blah whatever. (The hiatus monkey is courtesy of Squidsicle.) Below is a large dump of random, interesting and useful links […]
WebVisions 2010 in review: Part three
This is a continuation of WebVisions 2010 in review: Part two. On Wednesday through Friday, May 19-21, I attended the WebVisions 2010 conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Below is a quick overview of all five sessions I attended on Thursday, with links. Many of the slides from these sessions and others are […]
WebVisions 2010 in review: Part two
This is a continuation of WebVisions 2010 in review: Part one. On Wednesday through Friday, May 19-21, I attended the WebVisions 2010 conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Below is a quick overview of all five sessions I attended on Thursday, with links. Many of the slides from these sessions and others are […]
WebVisions 2010 in review: Part one
On Wednesday through Friday, May 19-21, I am attending the WebVisions 2010 conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Below is a quick overview of the workshop I attended on Wednesday, with links. Many of the slides from these sessions and others are available at SlideShare. See Twitter updates using #wv2010. (Also see my […]
Thanksgiving journey complete (with links)
My posting frequency continues to degrade here. I appear to be struggling to post once a month these days. But I do tweet something to Twitter on a daily basis. Probably best to follow me there. This weekend I returned to Oregon from my cross-country, family-visiting Thanksgiving journey. I had a great time catching up […]
PlayersFrom.com beta launch
Today I am pleased to announce the beta launch of Players From, a database project I have been working on in my spare time for the past few weeks. PlayersFrom.com Ever wanted to know what players from your favorite college, home state or country are currently active on professional sports teams in the United States? […]
JavaScript, LOLCODE and Bumbershoot
The other day I was playing around with JavaScript options for searching a page via a floating DIV and also for drop-down panel buttons/toggles. These were my five favorite examples, mainly thanks to the Dynamic Drive DHTML scripts repository: Using JavaScript to Search For and Highlight Text on a Web Page Find In Page Script […]
Web development, technology and the End Times
Web development Here are some useful articles and handy resources for web developers: “Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress“ “Automate Your Home Using ioBridge and Twitter“ jQuery Week Calendar, inspired by Google Calendar “List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers“ “HTML 4 Considered Harmful“ URI/URL escaping chart Social media This is interesting: […]
WordPress 2.8.1 (and Flickr, fonts, AJAX, Eudora)
Today I updated spiral::notepad to WordPress 2.8.1, which is the first maintenance release for 2.8. Flickr and Creative Commons images Earlier today on Twitter I also noted that I am trying to deal with social media overload. I should probably evaluate how I use Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, FriendFeed, etc. What I really want […]
Google Wave, Microsoft Bing and Big Brother
It seems like the more I use Twitter, the less I feel like actually bothering to write blog posts. Is this blog dying? I don’t know, but this post is about a few new web services and technologies. Many articles are about a week old at this point, because I didn’t get around to posting […]