For the Firefox users out there annoyed by Firefox’s handling of the feed: URI scheme mess, may I please present Feed:Eater, a greasemonkey script which silently replaces feed:http:// URLs with auto-subscribe links that work in your favorite online feed-reader!
Feed:Eater supports: Bloglines, Netvibes, My Yahoo, Google Reader, Pageflakes, NewsGator, AOL, Rojo, and Pluck.
Download it here: Install […]

I discussed some of the risks of an un-anchored sabbatical tonight with J–. he strongly recommends working at least partially within the confines of academia to reap the network benefits (enthusiasm, rich resources) of an academic system. He’s probably right. i’m going to try and schedule something with MR and/or PH tomorrow, even though i […]

so far, i’ve modded Instiki to have new stylesheets for a cleaner look, and a set of blackberry and mobile device optimizations, including:

adding javascript show/hide for the wiki editing help and hiding it by default
shortening the help text and moving it below the page body when editing so you don’t have to scroll past it
reducing […]

…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, […]

the Blackberry will include the URL for you and automatically figure out your Feed Me Links user ID based on your email address.

[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, […]

i am now using sxore (from sxip, of the identity 2.0 presentation fame) to moderate comment spam and verify the identity of comment posters. this is a good thing.