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Open letter to PhotoBucket, Open up your API

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:33:00-0400

I've used both Flickr and PhotoBucket, both have their little nuances, Flickr has a better API and PhotoBucket is a little easier for social sites such as MySpace. I think PhotoBucket could go a long way by either opening up their API or at the...

Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:03:00-0400

By way of Slashdot, I just read on O'Reilly Radar that Google is deprecating their SOAP Search API in favor of their AJAX API. I've been using The Google API for some time on on one of my ColdFusion sites. The beauty of their ...

Adding Code Block support for BlogCFC and FCKEditor

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:30:00-0400

If you use a rich text editor with Ray's BlogCFC, you've probably run into some quirks when you try to use code blocks. By default, Ray's editor uses a standard textarea form element. I've been using the FCKEditor on BlogCFC for sometime ...

Google Analytics

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:20:00-0400

I've been using Google Analytics for some time now and I've been impressed with the results. It's a great resource for drilling down into how people visit your site. The depth of knowledge available is extensive. By drilling down in...

Google lost to Perfect 10

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:25:00-0400

Old news by now ,Google lost to Perfect 10 because Google made thumbnails of the images and stored them in their database, which were displayed along with their ads. This pretty much negated their fair use argument. They are now open to f...

Krugle: A search engine for coders

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:32:00-0400

Wired posted an interesting article on Krugle, a search engine for coders. The article also mentions Koders and CodeFetch.If you remember the early days of search engines and have a bent towards coding, it was fairly easy to quickly locat...

Matt Kruse's JavaScript Toolbox

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:09:00-0400

Matt Kruse just launched his new Javascript Toolbox site. Matt has released a number of Javascript libraries with a fairly open license. He's still moving over content from his old site, reformatting the libraries and gene...

What people are searching on

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:15:00-0400

While reading the FAQ on the Justice Dept. subpoena of Google search terms, I came across this link to the Dogpile searchSpy, which lets you see in real time what people are searching for. The real-time scroll uses a Flash UI.I've been fai...

Membership Abuse

Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:19:00-0400

Most of you have probably implemented some type of security measure at some point in your coding career. These range from authentication, data validation, and unauthorized template access, but have you ever coded to prevent abuse of member...

Macromedia Contribute Team is running a survey on Blogging Tools

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:42:00-0400

The Macromedia contribute team is looking for survey participants on what blog authors are looing for in a blogging tool. Here's your chance to get your wish list in.

Blog Spotting software by IBM

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:00:00-0400

Internetnews.com reported on new "Blog-Spotting" software created by IBM to help companies get a pulse from the web community regarding their image. While news aggregators are great, It looks like this software acts more as an uber ag...

Nice Blog Design

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:18:00-0400

Sean Voisen's "Wandering the Pathless Land " has refreshing and original content, and some nice design touches. I especially like the category weighting that he uses, which is a text version of a treemap.

Old Email Addresses Never Die...

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:00:00-0400

Since I've re-enabled an old email address, I've been amazed at the amount of spam that still pours into it. Though the domain was parked for awhile, the email address was disabled. There's an anti-spam tactic where you create email...

Web based tool for color scheme generation and color blindness

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:19:00-0400

CSSVault mentioned a Macintosh based app to simulate color blindness. I'd like to point out that there is a nice little web based utility called Color Schemes Generator [2] that will display color schemes based on standard monochromatic, c...