Awhile ago – maybe 2 years ago – we built an Artist Registry site for BRIC in Brooklyn, NY. It was a fantastic project that flew by and let us add some new features to our registry application. Things like events and video originated with this project. Today, I just received an email from BRIC [...]

MySQL is the database platform that powers most major and minor websites (including this one). The traditional way of dealing with MySQL is through a web application called PHPmyAdmin. It’s works great, especially if it’s the only way you’ve ever interacted with MySQL. Plus, it’s free, and it’s bundled with the major control panels like [...]

Every so often, the folks at MacHeist get together with a number of different application developers, bundle them all together, and sell them at a ridiculous discount.  In the past, I’ve scored apps that I now live in (like TextMate).  Well, there’s a new MacHeist happening but this time the price isn’t ridiculously low; it’s [...]

Last night I discovered “MAMP“.  It’s likely I’m late to the party on this, but thought I’d share it with the ClearDev crew just in case there are others still in the dark (in which case you’d need LAMP).  MAMP is for Mac OS X, but I’m sure you can do the same thing on [...]

One of the worst things about getting organized is the trap of getting obsessed with organizational tools.  It happens to a lot of people.  Just look at the number of visitors going to sites like LifeHacker or 43Folders.  Getting your tasks organized can’t be so difficult that you need post after post of tips… can [...]

It’s election day here in the U.S.  It only took me about 10 minutes to vote but now I can spend hours checking out the coverage.  This year there’s a new site that mashes up Google Maps, and Twitter’s tweets to produce TwitterVoteReport.com.   The site publishes a steady stream of reports coming in from [...]

Google released their new browser yesterday.  ”Chrome.”  It’s a Windows Only app right now, but I fired up parallels to check it out.  Totally painless install, and so far, sites look normal and load fast!  If you have Windows, give it a spin and check it out your favorite sites…

Over the weekend we updated the Installatron on all of the servers!  Now you can not only install your favorite scripts with just a few clicks, but the new version promises to make backups and updates just that easy.   I haven’t tested this on any of my personal sites, but I have heard from [...]

Check out Cyberduck. Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

In a flurry of development, I’ve been using CODA more and more.  I find it’s fantastic for editing pages and well as modifying CSS files and getting an instant, visual result.  Makes for tuning in a particular look or effect much more efficient.  Just wanted to throw that recommendation out there again for any Mac [...]