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
Google I/O 2009 Keynote, Day 2
4/28/2009
Google Wave - Product, Platform, and Protocol
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.
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…
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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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…
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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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.
I have two more happy clients now. I’ve launched two new websites recently: SwimmingSafari.com and Hibernicor.com …
