Monthly Archives: July 2010

MacBook Pro Stickers

Posted on Thu 29 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

I stripped off all of the stickers from my MacBook Pro and started over. Now it has just a single sticker: I slid the WordPress sticker into the bite portion of the Apple logo, turned out to fit quite nicely.

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Twitter Salt Lake City Data Center

Posted on Tue 27 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

Last week Twitter announced they were working on a new data center in the Salt Lake City area. I live in Sandy, Utah (about 30 minutes drive south of SLC) so I saw plenty of local talk about this new … Continue reading →

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A New Focus

Posted on Mon 26 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

In the three plus years I’ve been working at Automattic the company has grown quite a bit. The number of services has increased and there are over four times as many people. And the growth of WordPress.com has been amazing. … Continue reading →

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FamilySearch – Granite Mountain Records Vault & Indexing

Posted on Fri 23 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

FamilySearch.org posted some interesting information recently. First up, videos about the Granite Mountain Records Vault: The vault is in Little Cottonwood Canyon, about 15 minutes from my house. Too bad they don’t do tours, I’d love to see that in … Continue reading →

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The Standards Chicken and the Egg

Posted on Tue 20 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

David Recordon commenting on the first Federated Social Web Summit, Standards are best served second: At times it felt as if people were starting with the technologies and protocols and only then trying to find a product that needs PubSubHubbub … Continue reading →

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Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress

Posted on Mon 19 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

Mark Jaquith has an excellent post describing Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress. Mark is one of the lead developers of WordPress and makes a living by doing freelance WordPress consulting (Covered Web Services). What Mark points out is … Continue reading →

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How Will You Measure Your Life?

Posted on Mon 19 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

Clayton Christensen (author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) spoke to the graduating class from Harvard Business School on How Will You Measure Your Life?. Here are a few pieces that I particularly enjoyed: On the last day of class, I ask … Continue reading →

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Star Wars Subway Car

Posted on Fri 16 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

“Galactic Rebellion for Dummies” :-) More info on the Improv Everywhere site.

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XHR / AJAX Performance – GET or POST?

Posted on Wed 14 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

During the summer of 2009 I posted about XMLHttpRequest (XHR) using multiple packets for HTTP POST, but HTTP GET requests only used one (in most cases). This led to several people recommending HTTP GET requests for AJAX when possible, to … Continue reading →

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Speckle May

Posted on Tue 13 Jul 2010 by Joseph Scott

Since seeing the first commercial for Despicable Me the kids have been talking about wanting to see it. My four year old couldn’t quite get the words right though, they came out as “Speckle May”. It’s become the family phrase … Continue reading →

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