I am using the Wordpress app for the iPhone. I wonder if I can add images? Looks like I can.

I can now manage my blog on the run…like I really need that.

Popularity: 31% [?]

I have been meaning to blog out about this for a while now, but quietly one of the first true Social Media platforms was killed off this week.  To quote DownloadSquad who quoted Obi-Wan “we felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced”.

GeoCities was known for it terrible home pages.  When I say terrible, I mean really bad.  But, before blogging and Flickr and Facebook this was the way you shared your information, your stories, your photos.  It took off for a bit but was pounced upon by other communities that did a better job.

Goodbye web 1.0 you will be missed but not forgotten.

Popularity: 20% [?]

I am not saying I am the perfect employee or even one who never makes mistakes.  I make my share.  But I was in a situation the other day where I am working with a client on getting hosting set up for a new web site.  I provided a document of what type of access I will need.  User account for FTP, Shell access and file modification access to certain directories and read only access to others.  I also gave examples of .conf files for apache of what I will need.

I get an email back from the hosting company and they provide me all the info I need.  IP, Username and Password, file locations etc.  Wow.  Everything seems like it will work great.  Well, that was last Friday.  It was not until Monday when I was able to fully access the web site.  First FTP did not work.  SSH did not work either.  HTTP did not work as well.  Once they got FTP and SSH to work the document root was not set up correctly.  Once they figured that out, I installed my software and database did some testing and found out my .htaccess file is not working.  AllowOverride was not enabled (it was in my doc I sent).

So, in an effort to fix that they enabled Authentication on the site and I could not even view it.  Argh.  Finally done.  But now we need to set up production.

Popularity: 17% [?]

I have tried a ton of lightboxes.  Thickbox, Greybox, Lightbox, Facebox, Boxy..etc…  They all have their pluses and minuses but this one seems to combine all of the goodness of all lightboxes into one.

It is called prettyPhoto.  I have not used it yet but on my next dev project I sure will.

Popularity: 5% [?]

I was using wp-twitter but I ended up changing my username on Twitter and everything blew up.  I tried a few others like TweetPress but I was not impressed.  So far TwitterPost seems fine.

Popularity: 7% [?]