Linked List: January 30, 2009

Friday, 30 January 2009

Brent Simmons’s New Web Publishing System ★

I love stories like this. The system Brent just built for himself sounds a lot like the system I was this close to building for myself when I started Daring Fireball: a template-based system that runs locally on the Mac and pushes static HTML pages to a remote server. I went with Movable Type instead not so much because I liked it better than the home-grown system I had in my head, but because it was finally starting to dawn on me that my programming projects always take a lot longer to complete than I think they will.

There have been many times since 2002 that I’ve regretted not building my own publishing system from scratch. But, now that I can post and edit to Movable Type from my iPhone, I have a major reason to be happy that I have a system that doesn’t run on my Mac.

How ClickToFlash Works ★

Peter Hosey:

Speaking of everybody’s favorite WebKit plug-in, here’s how it works. This should help you understand how it fails on some sites, and maybe aid you in contributing to its development.

Hosey has contributed some cool stuff to ClickToFlash. One thing I’m noticing about GitHub is that it seems to be the first open source community through which multiple forks of the same project feed back to one another.

‘I Don’t Know What Hand-Wringing Is’ ★

Greg Sandoval looks back at Rolling Stone’s 2003 interview with Steve Jobs regarding Apple’s then-nascent music business.

Fraser Speirs on the Flickr Support in iPhoto ’09 ★

Fraser Speirs:

As you may know, Apple added Flickr uploading to iPhoto ‘09. As you may guess, I was a little perturbed at this since I pay my mortgage by selling, er, a Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto. I acquired my copy of iLife ‘09 yesterday and decided to dive deep on how Apple have implemented Flickr integration in iPhoto ‘09. Here are the results of my investigation.

He admits he has a stake in it, but he makes a strong case that iPhoto’s built-in Flickr integration leaves a lot to be desired.

Zumobi ★

My thanks to Zumobi for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Zumobi is a mobile development house offering a bunch of apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including “Inside Xbox 360” and “REI Ski and Snow Report” (both of which are free) and “Pro Football” (which is currently on sale for $2 for this weekend’s Super Bowl).