http://onwebapps.com Random musings on Webapps. Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:46:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My Blog Comment Autofill Greasemonkey script is back. (direct greasemonkey link) In its first incarnation, you'd be on Digg, reddit, etc and the script would actually fill in your blog's URL into the submission field! Now, I check the meta generator tag, i.e. if you view source on this page you'll see ... http://onwebapps.com/blog-comment-autofill-is-back-greasemonkey-script/ The following list comprises over 39 Photoshop to XHTML/CSS cutup services. They charge anywhere from $297 or so to several thousands (for higher end sites / more pages / etc). If you have any experience with any of the firms listed below, please drop a note in the comments (with your name ... http://onwebapps.com/39-photoshop-psd-to-xhtml-css-services/ First off, I keep my main WordPress installation in Subversion. This does have the added drawback that all of my WP blogs will be out of date until I update my main WP Subversion trunk and svn up on the server(s). At the same time, updating X number of WordPress ... http://onwebapps.com/how-to-upgrade-wordpress-across-multiple-blogs/ Let's say you've pulled down a copy of your application's production database, or simply want to encrypt some personal files. First, download TrueCrypt. PGPDisk should work similarly. You've got a big fat 400+ GB external hard-drive that you can load up with both unencrypted data (mp3s, etc) as well as your ... http://onwebapps.com/how-to-encrypt-virtual-disks-on-external-drives/ Can You Afford to Move Abroad? (Prerequisites) * Ensure you have at least the first 3-5 months of living expenses ready (or in a very secure pipeline if you are a freelancer). * If you're a freelancer, make sure the market is healthy enough at the moment to sustain your current income ... http://onwebapps.com/33-steps-to-moving-abroad-checklist/ Being a startup CEO is not unlike being a great political leader. The challenges you'll face are different, but in both realms you'll have the chance to rise above obstacles or crumble in the face of them. The following lessons from Lincoln will hopefully help you along your journey. A house ... http://onwebapps.com/5-leadership-lessons-from-abraham-lincoln/ AppJet is a new hosted application framework that's part code editor, part persistent storage repository, part hosted application company. It roles all of these components into one, providing a complete end-to-end solution for would-be app developers. Via the AppJet Introduction page: An AppJet app is a server-side JavaScript program that runs ... http://onwebapps.com/appjet-rocket-fuel-for-web-apps/ Here is the first peek of what we're working on (click for a full-size screenshot): mockup of the default theme for hydraproject I'd like to give a special shoutout to a designer buddy for his work on this! Google Group Discussion List If you want to stay up to date with the latest Hydra ... http://onwebapps.com/current-state-of-the-hydra-project/ The Hydra Project received some major coverage today from TorrentFreak and via its page on Digg. The Hydra Project is a distributed, private BitTorrent tracker framework with goals of user privacy, anonymity, survivability & distributed ratio maintainability. The initial development of it was motivated, in part, by a high-profile takedown of a ... http://onwebapps.com/hydra-project-on-torrentfreak/ Someone commented how the Splashy Pants script could really be just one line. I take it he's a Code Golfer. Since I am adept at Ruby (not bash), here's a Ruby one-liner to vote for Mr. Splashy Pants: while true do; `curl -v -d "item_id=65&commit=SUBMIT+MY+VOTE" -e "http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whaling/great-whale-trail/gwt-vote?MM_URL=linkfromsplashblog" -A "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE ... http://onwebapps.com/one-line-mr-splashy-pants-script-ruby/