Posted by: Paul on: August 27, 2008
Being frustrated with the tinymce plugin for Expression Engine, I decided to create a rich text editor plugin for Expression Engine using the YUI library simple editor. Due to a magic combination of: the awesomeness of the YUI library the thoroughness of the YUI documentation the simplicity of creating extensions for Expression Engine it was [...]
Posted by: Paul on: July 11, 2008
I’ve started building Serf – a personal project which I hope people will find useful. I’ve had plenty of ideas over the years but the idea behind Serf is something I find fascinating and feel compelled to pursue. I’m going to keep it under wraps until it’s released (probably mid-October, if not sooner) but I [...]
Posted by: Paul on: May 30, 2008
How do you get listed as having 97% uptime when your service was down for almost a full day in May? 97% sounds like a lot – pretty good in fact. Right? The reality is that 1 day is around 3% of a calendar month. This means you can effectively take your service out for [...]
Posted by: Paul on: March 12, 2008
I’ve worked on a project where I used WordPress as a CMS for a (non-blog) content-driven site and was impressed by how flexible it was. I did cheat however and skirted around having to create an entire theme by creating simple PHP pages and pulling the data out using the post ID, as I thought [...]
Posted by: Paul on: March 12, 2008
ReadWriteWeb wrote up a while ago about Firefox 3 adding offline support for web applications. Arouind the same time, the Google Gears announcement came out and kind of fizzled. (Anyone using Google Gears? Anyone?) I put this aside but recently discovered that companies are investing time and money into creating offline version of online web [...]
Posted by: Paul on: March 5, 2008
The base documentation from Adobe is pretty good, but there are a couple of gotcha’s which aren’t immediately clear. You need to copy AIRAliases.js from <air install dir>/frameworks into your application directory (the same place you’ve placed you xml config file and sample html file.) If you try to test the sample application without doing [...]
Posted by: Paul on: October 30, 2007
OK, that’s a bit rough – Google Reader isn’t that bad, and after the Newshutch fiasco I’ve needed to find another online RSS reader pronto. Google Reader was OK, but this post from Derek Featherstone led me to a wee discovery to make my Google Reader-ing much more pleasant. Install the ‘stylish’ extension for Firefox [...]
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