Sam Javanrouh is my favorite photographer at present. He takes incredible photographs and also does the occasional video. The video below, Toronto on Ice, is one such example.
Visit his website [daily dose of imagery] here.
WordPress 2.9 has been released and is available for download. The most important new features are a new “trash” system for deleting posts or comments, a built-in image editor, batch plugin updating, and easier video embedding.
On a related note, Elitwee MyTwitter 3.0.3 is compatible with WordPress 2.9 and is a great way to include your tweets as a widget on your WordPress blog.
I have written a PHP 5 library for the Posterous API. It uses the curl extension to query the Posterous API, retrieves the XML, and returns the XML as a SimpleXMLElement.
Read more information about my Posterous API library for PHP 5 or clone the code on GitHub.
The Elitwee MyTwitter 3 Plugin for WordPress has been released and is available for download now from the WordPress Plugins Directory.
Description: Elitwee MyTwitter is a simple tweet widget and status updater for WordPress.
What’s New?: This new version allows you to easily add one-or-more Twitter widgets to any widget-enabled WordPress theme. You can also post updates to Twitter directly from the plugin’s Settings page. It is compatible with WordPress 2.8 and higher.
I’ve updated the custom theme for my website! Look at it now.
I spent today finishing the code for the custom WordPress theme I use to power the layout and design of the site. Many thanks to Jason Oxrieder for doing the graphic design work behind the new look!
The new design is just one example of the custom WordPress development I am able to do. I provide WordPress consulting and can answer questions about topics related to customization, themes, plugins, settings, system administration, and more.
Rev. Billy Graham gave a talk at the TED conference in 1998 regarding Technology, Faith, and Human Shortcomings. I’ve embedded it below or you can download the MP3 or video at the TED page.
Paul Graham has an excellent essay entitled “What Startups are Really Like.” Read it here.
I found myself surprised at how often I agreed with the words of PG or the entrepreneurs he quoted within. My experience working at Athleon has taught me many of the lessons he mentions within his essay. Particularly, the lesson that entrepreneurs work on a different time-flow than the rest of the world, and the emotional roller coaster a startup can be.
Over the course of the past year, I have loved working with Brent, Ryan, Jason, and Dan on Athleon and I am incredibly proud of the product and how far it has come in a year. With this small team of 5 (now 4), we have launched All Team Apparel, the Game Film beta, an updated version of Playbooks, and rewritten large components of the back-end code (running on Debian Linux, Apache 2, MySQL, and Perl with some features written in Flex/AS3) to prepare the site to scale for future growth.
Nobody says startup life is easy. The past year has not been, but I wouldn’t do things differently. The lessons I’ve learned have been valuable, hard-earned, and worth it.
WordCamp is coming to Seattle! Bloggers from all over the Northwest will meet to network, share knowledge and experiences, all while learning from some of the biggest names on the web.
Centered on the world’s most popular blogging platform – WordPress – this is THE event to learn about the blogging tool used by millions of consumers and businesses alike. WordPress powers some of the world’s most visited sites and blog networks.
WordCamp Seattle 2009 is happening on September 26, and runs from 8:30am to 5:15pm at the Adobe office building in Fremont. Tickets for the event cost $25 and can be bought at http://wordcampseattle.eventbrite.com/.
The keynote speakers for the event are Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome) and Liz Strauss (Successful & Outstanding Bloggers).
