It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a large and complete collection of free, vector-based icons… I just had to share!
Category: Asides
Simple how-to on appcasting in WordPress
Chip Cuccio has created a simple set of directions for appcasting in WordPress. Great for software developers providing syndicated software updates!
Where Revver’s API?
Video-blog site Revver claims to have an API. But where’re the docs? Am I missing something? Is an API an API if it’s not open?
Meanwhile, work on Blip’s API continues unabated.
One for the records
Just wanted to point out that folks should keep their eyes on SoundFlavor, a little project I worked on awhile back. Not sure when it’s going to launch, but it’s definitely got legs.
Mootools released
In my continuing campaign to make AJAX + XHTML + CSS the future of application development, I wanted to point out the release of Mootools, an excellent compilation of scripts that perform a subset of things similar to Dojo, but is a much smaller library that’s a bit more accessible to code against. Digg and enjoy.
Open source OCR in the wild
About as sexy as an eye exam, but damn, this technology is difficult to get right. So yesterday Google announced the open sourcing of Tesseract OCR, character/text-recognition software it developed back in the 80’s that it claims is better than most of the open source alternatives (I’d believe that) but not quite as good as some of the commercially available technologies (I’d buy that too).
But hmm, isn’t there a lot that could be done with this? Personally, can’t wait until we see this make it’s way into OpenOffice among other places.
Speed up WordPress with NoPingWait
It’s been a huge mystery for the past 6 months. I figured it was either TextDrive or something else I’d done to make blogging to FactoryCity so painfully slow (something invisible to everyone but me). But, after stumbling upon a great list of plugins (via Digg) I discovered a plugin called NoPingWait that solves the problem by delaying the ping action until after the post has essentially cleared the runway. MarsEdit is also running a good clip once again.
OmniDrive back for the Mac
Ah ha! Finally you lugwarts…! You promised me weeks ago, and only today do you make good on that promise… Well, that’s ok Nik. I forgive. Now just remind me where to get that OmniDrive Mac client?
Welcome to the party, Sun
With rumors flying about an Apple-Sun merger (not likely), the release of Sun’s “open source” single sign-on code got brushed to the wayside. As an OpenID fan, I’m wondering where this came from (oh yeah, the semi-irrelevant Liberty Alliance). Well, throw another identity protocol on the barbie.
developerID to connect the folks who build stuff
Not sure what developerID is gunna be, but the description sure is enticing: “a social identity network for programmers, designers, engineers, sys admins & others working in the professional developer community.” Nothing’s public yet, so I’m eager to see what it turns out to be… Oh, and a sweaty Ballmer is always sure to attract the right audience.
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