…is now available on the Tools to Make Tools
Wiki. stay tuned for patch uploads soon.

Before i knew about things like attention streams and Trac, there was CIA.
CIA is a great concept that happened almost before its time — a website for developers to stream status information into from their open source projects. CIA was like the giant train station schedule sign clicking away as a million trains, or coders, […]

[editor’s note: please excuse the broken links for some of these projects — in the server migration, some of the older files are no longer live. email me for code samples or examples]
Past independent projects include:
dd {padding-bottom: 2.0em;} .language {display: none; height: 0px; margin: 0px;}

Command Runner
web-based interactive command executor
Interwoven / Perl

Feed Me […]

is not quite as easy as it could be. (or, maybe i just did it the hard way — i do that sometimes.)
follow these steps for a clean, if not necessarily painless, migration:

dump the WP database from your old server to a file:
mysqldup -u username -ppassword databasename > dump.sql
download and unpack (but do not “install”) […]

I’m having trouble with a GMail reverse-engineering problem and I thought I’d post it here in case anyone had some ideas for breaking through my little impasse. Here’s the problem: I’m adding (decorating, in GoF-speak) an event handler to a GMail control — specifically, the Send button. My objective is for the existing Send button, […]

Digital signatures on your Gmails. Strong encryption. Easy.

The Code Swami GPG-Gmail system enables you to send and receive cryptographically secure mail with Gmail, completely within your existing personal workflow. Watch the screencast demo.

this post is ancient (and unfinished), so i’m just going to publish it to get it out of my drafts folder. we need to publish our findings and at that point, i’ll just trackback this to that.
Map the Flash content.
This is best done on paper or in simple diagram form on your computer. You don’t […]

Dual-processor, quad-drive slot-loading xserve (specs), purchased surplus from Property Disposition, where all noble gear goes to die. click to view more photos.
It even has a “blogging server” — how cute!

First screencast of the JM3 Encryption GMail plugin, with Firefox and Greasemonkey. Click to watch.