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Code Snippet: Preprocessing Moveable Type import files for WordPress

[ 6.17.09 ] by Doug

We’ve moved a couple of clients from older Moveable Type installations to Wordpress and each time Wordpress doesn’t handle the text paragraph formating from the Moveable Type import file. Here is a quick script we created to convert the BODY and EXTENDED BODY sections of the Moveable Type import file to HTML paragraph formatting.

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Sorry, you missed me!

[ 6.1.09 ] by Cheryl

Delivery services can't catch me

I’m sitting at home today, waiting for the FedEx guy. This is a common story for me lately. I ordered a new iMac last week, and although the one-unit iMac appealed to my need for simplicity and fewer objects, it has arrived so far in three boxes, on two different days, through two different parcel carriers and three different shipping methods.

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Processing: Merging code and design

[ 5.11.09 ] by Doug

Last week the local software developers group that I am a member of hosted a talk by Ben Fry, the co-creator of Processing. Ben holds a doctorate from the MIT Media Lab where he was a part of the Aesthetics + Computation Group. ACG’s purpose is to “…work toward the design of advanced system architectures and thought processes to enable the creation of (as yet) unimaginable forms and spaces”. In other words, very cool stuff.

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iCook therefore iPhone

[ 5.6.09 ] by Sam

One of the perks to living a double life (one as Tierra’s office manager, the other as an aspiring pastry chef), is that you get to see important aspects of one from the perspective of the other. Case in point: the iphone. We make apps, talk apps, make up apps and trade apps at work and help guide our clients in the process of creating their own iPhone apps. Tierra is well versed on what’s up in the app world.But I never expected to find the iPhone to be a must have tool in kitchens all over New York City…

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Continuous PHP Profiling

[ 4.28.09 ] by Doug

Donald Knuth, the demi-god of computer science, famously once said “We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.” Though often quoted it is easy to misunderstand what Knuth was saying – its not that you should ignore performance until the project is complete, tacking on an “optimize code” task at the end, rather it’s that your design should not be complicated by performance considerations from the start.

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Another CSS Music Video (sort of)

[ 4.23.09 ] by Todd

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.

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Our Favorite WordPress Plugins

[ 4.23.09 ] by Todd

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With all of the WordPress deployments we have developed for our various clients, we’ve seen a recurring trend with the plug-ins we tend to use. While we do develop our own custom plug-ins at times, we also rely heavily on the global WordPress community and the free offerings from several talented developers. Below are some of the WP plug-ins we’ve not been able to live without.

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99% Perspiration

[ 4.22.09 ] by Jennifer

991 Last week I had the good fortune of attending the 99%Conference, hosted by Behance and Cool Hunting. The name comes from Thomas Edison’s saying, “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” – very appropriate for a conference focused on execution rather than ideas.