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Greasemonkey script: Facebook Reorder Sidebar

Hate scrolling down to see birthdays on Facebook? I just wrote a quick user script to reorder the parts in the sidebar on Facebook’s homepage.

Before: Requests, Suggestions, Sponsored, Highlights, Events/Birthdays, Connect
After: Requests, Events/Birthdays, Suggestions, Highlights, Sponsored, Connect

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Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 2

Google I/O 2009 Keynote, Day 2
4/28/2009

Google Wave - Product, Platform, and Protocol

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Notes from Google I/O Keynote 2009, day 1

Google I/O Keynote

Wednesday 5/27/2009

San Francisco, CA #io2009

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Standalone icons for Prism & Fluid: Gmail/GCal

Today I tried Mozilla Prism (cross platform) and Fluid (mac only), both of which are used to create single-site browsers (SSBs).  I especially wanted to use them for GMail and Google Calendar since those are the two web apps I consistently have open in a tab at all times.

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WordPress Plugin: Arbitrary Shortcodes

For a new project, I’m working on launching a large number of very similar WordPress installations with minimal effort. I needed a way to have WordPress automatically parse some kind of template tag or shortcode (like “[client_name]“) across all the different pages on the site. Not only that, I needed the field’s values to be easily updated in one place, and there would be an arbitrary number of shortcodes.

So I wrote my first WordPress plugin

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On OSX, svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client

I got this message when trying to use Subversion on OS X through Terminal.

I checked out my svn version using “svn –version” and it said I was using 1.4.4 - so I decided to update. Here’s how…
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Upgrading MySQL, PHP MySQL Client Version, phpMyAdmin

Some mental notes for myself in case I encounter this again, and maybe this will help someone as I was doing Google searches trying to figure this out myself…

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Switch to MacBook Pro and OS X

A couple months ago I bought my first Mac computer with the release of the new MacBook Pros. The new machine is beautiful and the switch to OS X from Windows has been primarily positive overall.

There were a few things from Windows that I greatly missed, but I found solutions which worked:
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Google Summer Internship Completed / Goodbye California

This summer I had the privilege to intern at Google and spent another summer in Silicon Valley - the hub of all things tech-related. My internship lasted 10 weeks and, much like my Yahoo! internship last summer (I gave my reasons for not going back to Yahoo! this summer), I had an incredible experience.

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Two Websites Launched

I have two more happy clients now. I’ve launched two new websites recently: SwimmingSafari.com and Hibernicor.com

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