Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com Just the feed for Dirk Gadsden's blog; no extras or flair added. Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:55:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Shifting sands and a poofy launch http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/236277334/shifting-sands-and-a-poofy-launch http://esherido.com/posts/shifting-sands-and-a-poofy-launch#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:55:17 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/shifting-sands-and-a-poofy-launch Some people may have noticed that I had launched my small iPhone-oriented Twitter application named TabIt. For the Twitter addicts out there, TabIt is located in a comfy sub-domain. Built on CodeIgniter, it has been chugging along nicely for about a week with only one or two hiccups during the launch as the bot started running.

Run for your life, the sand is alive!

What I mean by this is that one of my common afflictions strikes again, my free-roaming creativity has once again directed my projects in directions I had never thought of before. What I'm referring to is my decision to do a complete overhaul of the Tea Beta. I did this mainly because I felt that I was not approaching the task at hand correctly. Included in the revamp is a slight shift away from just a statistics solution and more toward an entire project management system. Focusing on everything from managing all the contacts, designers, and developers of the project, tracking time and milestones, to the aforementioned statistics, with the ability to track more than just the project's site.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/shifting-sands-and-a-poofy-launch/feed http://esherido.com/posts/shifting-sands-and-a-poofy-launch Introducing TabIt http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/231806165/introducing-tabit http://esherido.com/posts/introducing-tabit#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:45:48 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/introducing-tabit The low-down

Simplified, TabIt is Twitter meets del.icio.us. We know that you can post links to Twitter, but what if there was an application that allowed you to easily review all of those thinks that you had posted to Twitter. Well that's what TabIt is!

How it works

TabIt is extremely similar to Dan Cederholm's foamee application. You simply send a reply using the @username code followed by the URI of the page you want to save. You can even follow it with a message! Featuring a small, simple interface with full iPhone compatibility, TabIt will, hopefully, be a simplified version of the ever-popular del.icio.us.

The social aspect

TabIt will feature a homepage that, if logged in, will allow you to view your friend's bookmarks, an archives of both you and (Optionally) your friends' bookmarks. Another feature will be a list of the top 20 most popular bookmarks along with some random bookmarks.

When does it come

I hope to launch TabIt some time this weekend.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/introducing-tabit/feed http://esherido.com/posts/introducing-tabit Formatting turnaround http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/218424304/formatting-turnaround http://esherido.com/posts/formatting-turnaround#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:53:30 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/formatting-turnaround Like I said in my earlier article I've begun using Textile after reading an article by Stuart[1]. The main thing that I like about Textile is the ease of making footnotes, which I make a lot of2.

1 If you're never heard of that site don't worry, it hasn't been out that long. Also, the article was quite good, which would explain why I'm using Textile now.

2 And a mean a lot of footnotes. See? I've already made another footnote describing how many footnotes I've made3.

3 Talk about redundancy.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/formatting-turnaround/feed http://esherido.com/posts/formatting-turnaround Changes in the pipes http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/216734223/changes-in-the-pipes http://esherido.com/posts/changes-in-the-pipes#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:59:22 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/changes-in-the-pipes This is mainly to the Tea beta testers, I am currently working on a revamped user interface. It should be done within a week or two. As I said on The Tea Blog, it will feature many elements from the OS X interface, some reference points that I am using are the wonderfully designed applications at MacHeist that inspire me to create something truly useful. I'm considering writing my own caching system so that I can make the Tea v1.2 have extensive pre-loading capabilities. Meaning that, while it will use JavaScript, I hope to have the JavaScript load most of its data before hand, and only requests that require a high degree of processing power1 will be loaded when the user requests them. I can only think of one or two instances in which this would apply, and they may not ever be incorporated into Tea.

Just a quick note about the new, fancy footnotes. They're there because I've started using Textile.2

1 Either in the database or in the PHP.

2 I might write a blog post about how Stuart managed to convince me to use Textile through a single blog post.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/changes-in-the-pipes/feed http://esherido.com/posts/changes-in-the-pipes Reminders are good for your eyes http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/212221256/reminders-are-good-for-your-eyes http://esherido.com/posts/reminders-are-good-for-your-eyes#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:27:51 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/reminders-are-good-for-your-eyes/ Just like carrots, reminders are very good for your eyes. With that fact in mind, I'm now reminding my body of 12 RSS readers (I feel special now that it's increased from 5.) that a few spots are still open in the Tea beta program. I'm looking for sites that get around 10,000 to 15,000 visitors per month and 5,000 uniques. An example would be Pasquale D'Silva's site, which meets this criteria perfectly. Although if your site is like mine, with virtually no traffic, but you feel that you'd be worth the losses (The money I'd lose by giving you a free Tea license.), then let me know.

Also remember to subscribe to the Tea Blog, because if you don't you'd miss out on important announcements like this one. (It's about the releasing of Tea v1.1.6.)

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/reminders-are-good-for-your-eyes/feed http://esherido.com/posts/reminders-are-good-for-your-eyes Watch out, The Tea Blog is gaining on us! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/212221259/watch-out-the-tea-blog-is-gaining-on-us http://esherido.com/posts/watch-out-the-tea-blog-is-gaining-on-us#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:39:30 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/watch-out-the-tea-blog-is-gaining-on-us/ Pretty simple, instead of filling up my fresh, pristine blog with Tea-oriented stuff; I'll be letting Tumblr take all that load, check out the Tea Blog over there.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/watch-out-the-tea-blog-is-gaining-on-us/feed http://esherido.com/posts/watch-out-the-tea-blog-is-gaining-on-us Progress is good for your health http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/212221260/progress-is-good-for-your-health http://esherido.com/posts/progress-is-good-for-your-health#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:42:14 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/progress-is-good-for-your-health/ After the initial uproar over Tea v0.9, v1.0, and v1.1 I am preparing to launch Tea v1.1.5, which will feature many user interface changes, something that seems like a site, and addition of some more background functions and interactivity.

Tea v1.1.5 Interface Preview

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/progress-is-good-for-your-health/feed http://esherido.com/posts/progress-is-good-for-your-health The closed beta is here! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/212221266/the-closed-beta-is-here http://esherido.com/posts/the-closed-beta-is-here#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:07:36 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/the-closed-beta-is-here/ That's right people, the Tea closed beta is now open! (Huh? That doesn't make sense.) If you wish to participate and possibly get free or very cheap Tea for life, contact me here. Please try to also include ball-park site traffic statistics. I ask for that because I want to get a good range of different sites with varying amounts of traffic.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/the-closed-beta-is-here/feed http://esherido.com/posts/the-closed-beta-is-here A bit more Tea, monsieur? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/212221267/a-bit-more-tea-monsieur http://esherido.com/posts/a-bit-more-tea-monsieur#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:53:53 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/a-bit-more-tea-monsieur/ More teasers? (Get it?) Of course! With ample time to work this holiday season (I love vacations!) I've already managed to put a serious dent on the work left to do. I have also decided to make Tea a self-hosted project, meaning that costs will transfer from a one-time license to still-reasonable yearly cost to help pay for server usage. As more people sign up, the costs will hopefully drop for average users, while I will be forced to come up with a solution for the more-visited users.

]]> http://esherido.com/posts/a-bit-more-tea-monsieur/feed http://esherido.com/posts/a-bit-more-tea-monsieur I Heart Röyksopp http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dirk/blog/~3/212221269/i-heart-royksopp http://esherido.com/posts/i-heart-royksopp#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:25:17 +0000 Dirk Gadsden http://esherido.com/posts/i-heart-royksopp/ I finally got around to playing Röyksopp's Melody A.M., my well-anticipated Christmas present. Wholey schmeezus! (Term Copyright 2007 Dirk Gadsden) I was already an avid fan of their song "Remind Me", which is featured in the Geico airport commercial, but it's just the tip of the iceberg in the bands' amazing musical conglomeration. Even half-way into the song and I'm already amazed.

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