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Easy Image Editing With Picnik!

Category: Coding on December 10. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

I originally published this earlier this year on a blog related to my day job that I decided to retire. I’m republishing it here for the sake of posterity…

So I don’t know about you but I do a lot of image editing and optimization in my everyday web development tasks. Typically, in times past, I’ve used Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 for these activities. I’m still a heavy Fireworks user (I just love the CS3 update) but sometimes I want to do some quick and dirty editing without having to deal with the overhead of a desktop app (Photoshop I’m looking at you!). Enter Picnik.

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Tags: image editing, Photoshop, picnik

Vote…

Category: Happenings on November 2. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

It’s official… I exercised my right to vote. You should too. I’ll give you one guess who I voted for…

Tags: Daily Updates, Vote

Introducing mod_mcpage

Category: Coding on September 29. 2008 with no comments — Bookmark this article

My buddy Jeremy Bingham, CTO for Daily Kos, just released a new caching patch called mod_mcpage for lighttpd. He can describe it better than me… read his post about it on Daily Koz.

Tags: apache, Daily Koz, lighttpd

WordCamp PDX

Category: Happenings on September 28. 2008 with 7 comments — Bookmark this article

Well WordCamp PDX came and went. It truly was a whirlwind for me. I stayed at my old friend Mikey’s house on Friday night and of course we stayed up late. And of course WordCamp had to start at eight in the freaking morning! Thankfully it wasn’t in downtown Portland so parking wasn’t an issue at all. CubeSpace was ground zero for WordCamp PDX.

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Tags: #wordcampdx, PDX, WordCamp, Wordpress

Simple customization of Wordpress Sidebar Login Plugin

Category: Coding on September 25. 2008 with 5 comments — Bookmark this article

I came across this great Wordpress plugin yesterday called Sidebar Login. Like the name says, it lets you place a login form in your WordPress sidebar so you can bypass the typical WP login screen. I thought the plugin would be a nice addition to a site I’m finishing up at work. Here’s what it looks like on my site:

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Tags: Codex, php, Sidebar Login, Wordpress