Today I'm proud to announce the release of two new open source projects: Appcaster and OpenFeedback. I've been working on them off and on for over nine months, so I'm very excited to finally see them out the door. Appcaster, which I've…
read the full post →For an upcoming project, I need to pull in metadata about movies and TV shows — genres, plot summaries, actors, etc. The de-facto source is, of course, IMDB. Unfortunately, they're behind the times and don't offer an API to access their data.…
read the full post →So it's been two weeks since my Drobo arrived from Amazon. I'm sure they're selling like hotcakes, but I don't personally know anyone else with one — I figured I might as well gather my thoughts and post a review. Hopefully this…
read the full post →Clever solution from Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software to speed up reading referral links pointing to your website. His script highlights the relevant sections so you can quickly scan down to what was said about you.
read the full post →[Update: You might also be interested in s3up for storing static content in Amazon S3.] Earlier this week I posted about my experience redesigning this site, focusing on optimizing my page load times using YSlow. A large part of that process involved…
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