Author: DXO

  • Sample Feedburner BuzzBoost CSS

    Feedburner is an excellent (Chicago-based) service that is providing a huge bump for how RSS feeds are shared, tracked, consumed, and monetized. One of the best features is BuzzBoost, which allows you to render RSS feeds in HTML– headlines, full posts, whatever you want. The instructions for how to get past the default styling (indented…

  • PBWIki

    While weblogs have enjoyed a meteoric rise in use and pop culture attention, another powerful and easy-to-use class of software hasn’t gotten the same mojo. I speak here of wikis. The wikipedia pops into consciousness every once in a while, but when it comes to broad acceptance and use, wikis aren’t there yet. I think…

  • Yahoo! Open Sources a Bunch of Developer Tools

    Yahoo! has released a set of powerful User Interface Library and Design Pattern Library controls. These things allow developers to insert auto-complete functions, pagination (next/ previous buttons), navigation tabs, and other useful widgets into their web projects. Experienced developers may not need these, but by sharing their work under Creative Commons and BSD licenses, Yahoo!…

  • Probably Would Have Been Better if the Vice-President Hadn’t Shot Someone

    Do we need any more metaphors for this scattershot, disastrous administration?

  • Windows Live Custom Domains

    So when I heard about Google’s new domain email service, I got pretty excited. I need this service lots of times. I register a lot of goofy domains and often map them directly to TypePad to serve up sites. I register over at GoDaddy and don’t bother purchasing email hosting. I’m not geeky enough to…