Archive for March 2008
In the workplace
37Signals have recently posted a couple of articles on improving the workplace experience and they're doing things I can only dream of. The posts in questions are workplace experiments, and fire the workaholics.
Workplace experimentsSome of their ideas are great. I love the idea of a 4 day work week (and I'm not the only one). The fact they have studied it and found that the shortened work time results in the same amount of work being completed ...
bm trackPing – comments, trackbacks and pingbacks separated
A year and a bit ago I wrote a tutorial on splitting the comments, trackbacks and pingbacks up on your wordpress blogs. Then a few months ago Daniel from DailyBlogtips wrote a post on the same subject (a couple people even mentioned my post in the comments ). I decided then a plugin was needed to do this.
The basics were easy but I was having issues calling the splitter function without user intervention, I like to make ...
ABC-3D
A wonderful pop-up book for learning the alphabet. No doubt a book most people won't need, but with something as clever as this it could be a book you'd want. I love the way each letter has it's own treatment, and particularly enjoy the clever letters such as O,P,Q, and R.
The version in this video was hand made by the books designer, Marion Bataille. It's going to go ...
My thoughts on premium WordPress themes
Obviously I'm biased since I now sell a premium WordPress theme, but I have posted my thoughts on premium themes over on Pro Theme Design.
The post was sparked by a comment from Matt Mullenweg where he said he disliked Premium themes because they don't further the WordPress community... and I disagreed.
In my opinion selling a WordPress theme is no different to designing a website for a client, or even developing a website for yourself.
To read the full article head ...
Pro Theme Design and Mimbo Pro
The last couple of months I have been spending my free time working on a new website and premium theme.
The website is called Pro Theme Design, and the theme is Mimbo Pro.
Pro Theme DesignPro Theme Design is a WordPress theme blog and premium theme store. You will be able to purchase premium themes and read tips on developing themes all in one spot. Yes, there's paid stuff but I also intend to give away freebies, for example ...
Virtual Japanese Girlfriend
A little disturbing, rather uncanny valley, but surprisingly realistic. We've all seen the websites that have cartoon people watching you (your mouse) and now it's been taken to the next level with a virtual girl watching your mouse!
There's no information on the page so I can't say who made it, why they made it, or how but I can make some educated guesses. The head uses a flash 3d system with some sort of bone or morph based ...
EEE PC and me
I bought an EEE PC the other day, and so far am very impressed.
These little machines are very small, and very handy and, most impressively, very cheap. They've been around for about 5/6 months now but, in the UK at least, are very hard to get hold of. Thankfully I found out about a shipment to a store in Tottenham Court Road - London, and ran off to get one almost straight away.
The machine ...
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