links for 2009-10-26

• What Startups Are Really Like
  (tags: development tips business advice)
• WPMU Admin Confirmed Username Before Able To Blog « WordPress Codex
  Code for WordPress MU Administration confirmed username before the blogger is able to start blogging.
  (tags: wpmu hacks)
• How to moderate signups – WPMU Tutorials
  Since at some point spammers will find your site and create splogs, there’s many ways to stop them. Deleting them as they occur is like shovelling snow during a blizzard. You can add another field to signup, add a captcha, go invite-only, or in the case of my main niche blogging site – moderate the signups. This works well for smaller signups where you don’t get a huge number of new bloggers on a daily basis, and where spammers have proven to be a general nusiance, a potential embarrasement, as well as a time suck.
  (tags: wordpress hacks wpmu)

links for 2009-10-21

• Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My Code, Part 17: Lost in Translations.
  A nice solution for localizing apps without using separate nib files for each language by loading strings at runtime.
  (tags: osx development cocoa translation i18n)

links for 2009-10-19

• Florida Woman Praises LoJack for Laptop for Safe Return
• 16 of the Best Designed Sign Up Pages
  For developers and designers of successful (and profitable) web based applications, time and careful attention are given to the page where the users sign up or give their money. What point is there to creating a beautiful, functional application to only turn users off with a confusing signup page or convoluted pricing plans?
  (tags: webdesign)

links for 2009-10-13

• Distributing iTunes LPs without iTunes
  Within days of the iTunes 9 and iTunes LP announcement, people had already thoroughly hacked apart the iTunes LP format only to discover it was just a clever combination of images, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Because any web developer could create an iTunes LP, it seemed strange that indie labels were left out in the cold, with LPs having a high cost of entry and no distribution of their LPs on the iTunes Store.
  (tags: itunes apple)
• Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh Takes Over Web With Blog Network
  Who knew pictures of cats with funny misspelled captions would evolve into one of the bigger indie blog networks in the world?
  (tags: lolcats blogging interview)

links for 2009-10-12

• The anger of the festering fringe – Roger Ebert's Journal
  Excellent column by Roger Ebert about the current political climate of Obama hatred and lunatic fringe groups.
  (tags: politics obama racism ebert)
• Archival Sound Recordings
  Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments.
  (tags: free music archive recordings)

links for 2009-10-11

• PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop
  (tags: photosketch imaging composition software design)

links for 2009-10-02

• Earning a Living as an Independent Mobile Software Developer
  (tags: iphone business)

links for 2009-09-30

• ~Perspective is Everything with OmniFocus « John Kendrick’s Weblog
  Good tips for using OmniFocus.
  (tags: GTD omnifocus)

links for 2009-09-23

• Student Laptop Security
  Your source for the latest news, information and advice about keeping your laptop protected at school.
  (tags: laptop security)

links for 2009-09-14

• Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
  (tags: languages cognition)
• Open Web Tools Directory
  (tags: web tools opensource)
• Pogue Mahone, ya Nipple Erectors | MetaFilter
  Very extensive history of Shane MacGowan & the Pogues.
  (tags: pogues music punk rock)