Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Twitter Groups in Tweetie (or Anywhere)
For those of you trying to create groups in Twitter on the Tweetie Mac app, I found a solution. It’s almost a little too simple, and isn’t the cleanest thing around, but it gets the job done. So the solution? Use the search. Here’s how.
Open or Closed, Part II: License and Free(dom)
I found another portion of the open or closed question. What about open and closed software licenses? Here’s a quick rundown of the license categories (check here for more details): GNU GPL type licenses. Very open. Liberal Licenses (i.e. Creative Commons type, Mozilla Public License). Mostly open. Closed source (i.e. proprietary license). Closed. The more [...]
Is Twitter the New RSS?
I have been thinking about this lately. Is Twitter replacing RSS? I mean, I seem to find my articles via Twitter, not my Google Reader. Ok, here’s my line of thinking. Twitter is the real-time communication tool of the moment. The idea of RSS is that you don’t have to run to each site every [...]
Notice for WordPress Theme and Plugin Developers
Just wanted to pass some info along to all of you budding theme developers. Your themes need to be licensed under GPL. Well, okay, part of them. According to this article from WordPress the php and html in your themes are GPL because WordPress itself is under the GPL. However, the css files and any [...]
New WordPress Page: Got Themes?
Lately, I’ve been coding some WordPress themes and code. So, I thought I’d showcase my efforts here on my site. Check out my new WordPress page to see what I’ve been up to. There will be some items to download for your own use. Not all of them will be free, but some will. I’ve [...]
Open or Closed: Experiencing (Social) Technology
Open. Or Closed. This has become a big question for web technology. Opening up your source or API to the public can reap huge dividends. Just look at Twitter and all the news and apps and traffic it has. (It also has great content, but let’s have that as a given.) Closing your source or [...]
WordPress Development Cheat Sheets
Found this via John Saddington today. It’s good enough that I wanted to post this for any of my readers who design WordPress themes. This article contains some WordPress cheat sheets for all of your theme development and design needs. I’ve already downloaded most of them, and will be referencing them often. So, click through [...]
Video Games Saved My Life
Going about my usual blog reading, I was reading this post (which linked to this Mashable post). Great thoughts. I’d like to add a few. Video games are the movies of the next generation. Games can suck you into their worlds so easily, it’s not even funny. I remember playing Star Wars:Knights of the Old [...]
How Do You Consume Online Media?
With all the means to get news, blog posts, and almost anything else on the web, which tools do you use? How efficient are they? Could they work better? I was inspired by this post to think about my subscription practices, and I’ve found they could use some work. For my RSS feeds, I use [...]