I just realized that this post was still a draft, thus not really ‘posted’. I am reposting it from my personal blog. I wrote it in July 2005 and am not going to change a single word. I lifted this from Markus’ website, even though it’s originally attributed to Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr: You don’t do good software design [...]

Funny coincidence: mere days after I decide to re-post my views on open-source, Daniel Robbins, of Gentoo fame, decides to post a late-night rant trying to address the shortcomings of the Gentoo Foundation. More interesting than his original post, though, I enjoyed reading most comments as well as his own answers to these comments. The phrase “Benevolent Dictator” emerges fairly [...]

As you, no doubt, have noticed, I have decided to stop serving this blog’s content using WordPress’ standard RSS script; instead, Feedburner is now in charge -note that this option is available to any Zteo blog owner. Why would I want to do that? An obvious answer is that it keeps track of my feeds’ popularity and is amazingly friendly. [...]

A couple months ago, I made a post about my new toy: OpensIFRr, which lets you easily create awesome Flash files that you can use to render just about any font in your web pages. I was pleased with the feedback it got but of course a lot of readers asked about the Windows version. Well, it’s here now! In [...]

The player I used in my previous post ( ‘nBBS Admin CP’ ) is now available in the WordPress.org’s plugin directory. A quick overview: This plugin lets you embed a flash stream using Geoff Stearn’s player. You can embed multiple movies in the same page and/or post. You can embed movies in posts and comments. You can specify a width [...]

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