Gabriel

Category: Development

  • New site is up for Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini – Award-winning author and illustrator

    I’m happy to announce that Kristin’s new site is now finally live. It’s all converted to a full WordPress site now. Check it out: Kristin Joy Pratt-Serafini – Award-winning author and illustrator Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/06/05/new-site-is-up-for-kristin-joy-pratt-serafini-award-winning-author-and-illustrator/

  • Google Gears (BETA)

    Interesting… Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness Check it out: Google Gears (BETA) Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/05/31/google-gears-beta/

  • WordPress 2.2 just released!

    Looks like it’s time to upgrade again, lots of neat new features and good bug fixes in WordPress 2.2. WordPress Blog – WordPress 2.2 Download WordPress 2.2 now. Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/05/15/wordpress-22-just-released/

  • How I used the Unix command line to do a multi-file search and replace to fix over 4,700 individual files

    Evil hackers attack! Some customers of mine recently reported some suspicious behavior on one of their sites. I discovered, with dismay, that a number of months ago there was a nasty cPanel exploit that some evil hackers had used to insert a malicious line of code into the bottom of every HTML page on this…

  • Interesting post about the value of reducing cognitive load as it relates to designing user interfaces

    Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design (via reddit) Link to share this: http://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/02/20/interesting-post-about-the-value-of-reducing-cognitive-load-as-it-relates-to-designing-user-interfaces/

  • Searchball – Google Pagerank checker for Safari

    Howto check Google Pagerank using Safari: Go here Searchball – Google Pagerank checker for Safari and add the bookmarklet to your browser bookmark toolbar. Click the bookmarklet whenever you want to know the Pagerank for the site your are viewing A small window will appear telling you the Pagerank. I just finished making some adjustments…

  • Adding new feeds to RSS2.com is working again

    I’ve fixed it so that adding feeds to RSS2.com should work again now. There was a small flaw in the logic for adding the feeds that I hadn’t caught. All fixed now. So far there have been almost 130,000 total items retrieved from almost 700 feeds since it the site launched in December. Check it…

  • The secret to getting your website featured on the frontpage of RSS2.com

    If you’ve ever tried to get your website featured on the front page of a site like digg, reddit, or Slashdot you might have felt frustration when you didn’t get the right number of votes to make it. There is a site called RSS2.com that will automatically put your website’s content directly on its homepage.…

  • Help digg this submission: 25x nicer way to read digg (aesthetically speaking…)

    If you like what I’ve been working on for RSS2.com, feel free to digg this submission and help get it linked on the home page. Let’s see if we can melt the server. 🙂 This new RSS feed aggregator site makes reading sites like digg fast and easy, with no clutter or distractions. There are…

  • Sweet new RSS2.com feature: Custom RSS Feed Stats Badges

    You can now see stats for each feed on RSS2.com and grab the HTML code to embed a neat small badge that shows you how many times the feed has been read on RSS2.com, how many people have favorited it and how many items are available to read on RSS2.com. The badges are displayed at…