February 22, 2010

Install GD on Mac OS X#

Excellent and helpful package put together by Marc Liyanage. Allows you to quickly install a pre-compiled version of PHP locally on your Mac that includes the popular GD image creation library. Be sure to disable the default PHP module before installing the package.

December 8, 2009

IE @font-face ClearType fix#

jQuery plugin that cleans up @font-face embedded Cleartype in IE6 and IE7.

November 2, 2009

@font-face Generator#

A really slick tool for compressing, exporting, and embedding web fonts with @font-face. Includes support for the new .woff format.

October 27, 2009

Convert WordPress to Subversion#

A well written tutorial on making the switch to a “Subversion powered” WordPress install.
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September 28, 2009

How-to: Lifestream with WordPress

Back in July of this year I re-designed our website here at Jestro. One important feature I wanted to implement was a lifestreaming / microblogging solution that made it easy to share links to interesting content along with regular blog posts. You may have seen a similar setup on some popular WordPress and non-WordPress blogs: Matt Mullenweg has been doing this for quite awhile along with the guys over at Signal vs. Noise (37signals), and Adii Rockstar just recently changed to a micro-blog.

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