http://www.siliconchisel.com    Open-Source Web Development Mon, 05 May 2008 00:26:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WordPress 2.5 was released this week and it was so nice that I decided it was worth converting my old Joomla installation over to WordPress for the main Silicon Chisel site. Another incentive is that my personal blog is also in WordPress - as well as a few other sites ... http://www.siliconchisel.com/news/wordpress-conversion-underway/ Many years ago I was a heavy Mac user, as well as a Mac developer. Then I was more or less forced to adopt the Windows PC - partly for economic reason, partly because I entered the PC game industry. Recently, though, I acquired a MacBook Pro and am loving it. ... http://www.siliconchisel.com/news/hello-world/ A new version of the successful psychotherapist directory - Find-a-Therapist.com - was launched this week. It features a complete rewrite from the ground up for speed, ecommerce support, and deployability across multiple platforms. A sister site for psychotherapy information - Find-a-Therapist.info - was launched as well. http://www.siliconchisel.com/news/find-a-therapist-v2-launch/ I've added a nice CSS template for the StikiPad online Wiki service to the files area. It uses the "Classic" layout style - just duplicate that in your "My StikiPad", then paste in the new CSS and update the reference to it in the Layout. http://www.siliconchisel.com/news/stikipad-template-css/ Last month I completed development work on NewOrleans.com, the site for the city of New Orleans. This was a massive rework of a legacy site, some parts of which had been around for many, many years. The new deployment's core is the Joomla CMS. Supporting are phpAdsNew for banner ads, ... http://www.siliconchisel.com/news/neworleanscom-2/ After the dot-com bubble burst, it seems like all things Internet fell into a kind of malaise. Investors were scared to take risks, jobs were few and far between, and in general the Internet was being treated like a utility - a step below phone service, but above trash ... http://www.siliconchisel.com/articles/web-20-and-ajax-everything-old-is-new-again/ At its core, meebo is a multi-protocol, AJAX-based instant messaging client. It handles all the major IM channels through on a web page. No ad-infested bloat-ware application to load. This month they also added the "Meebo Me" widget which lets you see visitors on your site as chat clients in ... http://www.siliconchisel.com/reviews/email-chat/meebo/ This is a nifty little package I put together using a CSV parser to grind through plane performance data and a slick Flash-based charting package. It allows players of the MMOG "Aces High" to compare their favorite fighter planes in a variety of categories. [ Visit Site ] http://www.siliconchisel.com/silicon-chisel/projects/aces-high-performance-charts/ You're working on a Photoshop template and 7 versions ago you had a layer in it with the client's logo with just the right shadow effect. But since then you've cleaned up all the unused layers and can't find it anymore. Or you're working on a site and your CSS used ... http://www.siliconchisel.com/articles/version-control-its-not-just-for-hackers-anymore/ http://www.siliconchisel.com/silicon-chisel/portfolio/logo-formulafotocom/