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• 2.2.08 Giving Flock some love posted in Geekery

  Okay, it’s time for a little more in depth post on why I’m loving Flock. The easy part of that answer is that it uses the Mozilla rendering engine while adding some very useful (to me) functionality (Twitter sidebar, blog tools, media stream…) and provides compatibility with most Firefox plugins. The more complex answer is that with a little effort, Flock can be customized to do way more than advertised…

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• 11.7.07 Safari (my new crush) posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Besides being enamored with all things Leopard, I’ve developed an intense and burning love for Safari. With a couple of exceptional plugins, it’s become my general web browser of choice. The powerhouse that is Firefox+addons may still be hard to leave behind for webdev, but for beauty, ease of use and overall integration (and awesome applescripting), Safari is definitely my new top choice…

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• 7.29.07 Group Productivity On The Web posted in General

  I’ve been working to narrow down the array of possibilities for productivity apps at Circle Six Design. I’ve been looking for solutions that are accessible by both employees and clients, inexpensive and easy to use. Out of the array of possibilities, here’s my current list…

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• 7.26.07 The Zombie Designer (or “Pownce on These”) posted in Geekery

  We’re wrapping up what is proving to be one of our biggest months ever at Circle Six Design. More billable hours, more fun software releases, more blood, sweat and tears all around. It’s going to pay off in the end, I’m certain, but right now I’m a zombie. I’ve never worked so many hours in my life. A man should not work 20 hours a day, and if he does, he should take Sundays off. That’s my new plan, right there. No working more than 15 hours and I get weekends off. So there.

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• 7.17.07 HTML Indexing Gets Better posted in Web Design

  I started discovering more and more mistakes in the original HTML indexing bundle. I ended up rewriting a lot of it and adding a lot of new functionality. It now recognizes a plethora of different formats for anchor tags, including empty anchors before headers, inside of headers, anchors with link text, etc. And there’s a new auto-indexing command that creates a hierarchical index. There’s even one that scans for headers and adds the anchor tags FOR you. It can’t get much easier than that. Let me know if it works. The docs from the bundle follow, download link at the end…

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• 7.16.07 My weekend with XSLT posted in Web Design, Geekery

  I just spent a very long weekend teaching myself XSL. I don’t mean long as in more than two days, but long in that I didn’t sleep and played with this stuff for hours straight. Days straight, actually. Too long. What I’m really trying to figure out is how to get this to apply to my current design. I can now fully see the power (and limitations) of xml and XSLT, but I don’t have a lot of applications that require such a technology. So here’s what I put together…

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• 7.13.07 HTML Indexing Bundle posted in Web Design

  The HTML Indexing commands have evolved into a full bundle for TextMate. For those of you who told me the original commands saved you some time on your last project, this should make the next one a breeze. The shot on the left shows a quick preview of the new auto-index with summaries command, which scans for all anchors and pulls the first 10 words following them to create an index using a definition list with even/odd classnames on the lines for styling. Download is at the end of the post. Here’s a rundown from the included help file…

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• 7.13.07 News from CulturedCode posted in Web Design

  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from them, but CulturedCode has released a new version of XyleScope and has plans to release a GTD-based ToDo manager called “Things”…

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• 7.11.07 Quick HTML Anchors in TextMate posted in Web Design

  I had to make a couple of long indexes today, so after a couple of tries and some input from the TextMate list, I came up with a pair of commands for creating named HTML anchors in TextMate…

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• 6.15.07 WPZipper posted in Web Design

  Just a quick note about a new site: wpzipper.com. It allows you to put together a pre-configured Wordpress install with your choice of plugins and themes and prepares it for installation. Registering for a free account lets you save configurations for repeat usage. Pretty nifty.

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