slideshowpro and wordpress... I was having some issues with a SlideshowPro file playing on a Wordpress site. The swf played fine locally and on the server, but would not run when embedded in the Wordpress blog through the standard add media tag. It was driving me up the wall and despite trying to limit the amount of plugins I have...

.htaccess for (mt)... I have been on Media Temple’s (mt) gs servers for a while. The price is okay, but the performance has been pretty shoddy when using any type of Wordpress install on their shared MySQL plans. Every issue presented to them has been met with a hard sell to upgrade my plan more than doubling the costs...

Site analysis... Standards-BasedStandards-based design insure the consistency of the visual presentation of the design across browsers and platforms. Insuring the separation of content and presentation allows the broadest market access to information contained on the site. A semantically coded, valid page offers the...

Speech Bubbles... Something fun, but mostly useless for commercial prospects, is Speech Bubble. Installing this into your browser allows you to add a speech bubble to any photo on the web and share it with your friends. There are some sites that will not work (i.e. Flash, larger sites like NY Times, etc.) but overall...

iPhone Dev Camp followup... The follow-up to the barcamp for the iPhone was quite productive. There is a list of apps available at their site.

iDevelop 4 iPhone... Apple has officially launched the iPhone developer’s section to their site. It seems fairly light in offerings and logging into my developer account does not offer much more information. This weekend there is a Barcamp iPhone developer meeting in San Francisco; hopefully we will learn more about...

Dashboard Stats... There are some cool little utilities out there for your Dashboard. I have recently discover Dashalytics, a great little widget that shows a brief overview of your Google Analytics info. Another indispensable widget is the Mint widget. These 2 items combined keep me apprised of the traffic on my sites...

MooTools... Mad4Milk has released MooTools: MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework designed to make writing extensible and compatible code easier and faster. Essentially MooTools provides a creative solution to animating items on your webpage.

Some more reference sites... There is always a wealth of knowledge just a few clicks away. Here are some more sites that I frequent to research projects and use as a source of inspiration while developing sites. Online CSS Reference, coincidentally this site also sells the great application called Xyle Scope; a utility to examine...

RSS Media Redux... Really Simple Syndication is a means with which to broadcast feeds (alternatively call streams, webfeeds, channels, etc.) to the general public. These feeds provide content, and/or brief summaries with associated metadata, to the end-user with links back to the full or expanded content. The end-user...