Odds & Sods
Notes from the shop — process, tools, and the occasional opinion.
February 2, 2009
DRM Free iTunes
I've never been much of a fan of purchasing music off of iTunes because of, and only because of, the DRM issue. Thankfully the…
January 23, 2009
What’s wrong with RSS
What's right with RSS Maybe I should start out by mentioning what's right about RSS. After all, for those who have adopted the technology,…
January 21, 2009
Rethinking Flickr and MobileMe
Cause I still haven't found what I'm looking for It's been an on-again off-again search for me, but Dan Benjamin's article Is Flickr Still…
January 20, 2009
Historic Day
What a difference 8 years make. 8 years ago, I and much of the country was feeling down and depressed and fearful of the…
December 29, 2008
Harvest feature updates before end of ’08
The holiday season was not just for egg nog quaffing and loitering under the mistletoe for the folks over at Iridesco. They managed to…
December 11, 2008
Web design business tools
How SD gets the day to day business done. When asked what I do for a living, my response is generally, "I'm a web…
December 5, 2008
Giving MarsEdit a test drive
I find that the WordPress Admin window for adding a new post is much too small. Yes, I know you can make it bigger…
November 30, 2008
An open letter to Iridesco
Dear Iridesco, Let me start by saying that I love Harvest. It has saved me a ton of time in billing for projects and…
November 19, 2008
Dropping future support for IE6
Checking the stats for spigot17.spigotdev.com/ today revealed that less than 10% of the visitors here are using Internet Explorer 6. This is great news!…
October 29, 2008
Better email communication: Part II
Tame the multi-pointed beast Note: Part 2 in a series on better email communication. Write better, get better results. Here's Part I. That beast…