I had a few extra minutes last night and today and added a few things to this script including Direct download links (with :hover for easy selection)

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This is a small post made in hopes it reaches a JavaScriptdeveloper, who in turn passes it along to another, then another, so-on-and-so-forth…

I use jQuery with nearly every project. While I find it easier and easier to roll my own JavaScript, I’m not one for reinventing the wheel. If a plug-in exists that does what I want, I’ll use it. The first thing I do is check if they have a packed version (size matters). If not, I pack my own. My problems start when developers don’t have a packed version already available. Chances are, if they don’t have a packed version available, it’s because the JavaScript packer breaks their code. Not because it’s bad code, and not because there is something wrong with Dean Edwards packer, but because when code is packed certain operations are changed if the code isn’t written perfectly.

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I’m tired of using the word “awesome” to describe things that are awesome so I went with majestic instead. Awesome, huh?

Rather than get techy about Google’s new AJAX Feed API I’ll focus on their much easier to understand wizard for creating a very simple AJAX Feed widget. To do that though, I need to cover the AJAX Feed API so much to say that it’s a way for you display snippets of an RSS Feed – or multiple RSS Feeds – on your website without doing anything more than click a button.

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This is the second time I’ve written this article so it’ll be much shorter now. Damn you back button!

I’ve been using vBulletin to create a webmaster social network at MySpacePros.com for the past month now and while it has all the features I need, I can’t imagine using vB for a social network that wasn’t aimed towards webmasters. As awesome as it is, it’s a beast to work with. What would I use then? WordPress. Or more specifically, BuddyPress. Take that last sentence with a grain of salt though, because I’ve never actually seen it in action. This is all just speculation.

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This is an update to a post made earlier today.

Last week I posted a Cushy CMS review that received quite a bit of attention. A few people expressed interest in the flat file CMS that I mentioned I use internally, so I wanted to post it. From this point on I’ll refer to it ask Skeleton.

You can grab it here: Skeleton: flat file CMS

I’ll make this short since I’m no font creator, but this is too cool not to talk about.

Fontstruct is a flash based font creation tool that allows you to point, click and create fonts using a number of preset shapes and tools. It’s crazy easy to use and I felt right at home the moment it loaded. It’s as powerful as many other full blown font creators and as simple to use as MS Paint.

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When the myeeos project began, the lead programmer was given the chore to find the best social networking platform out there and build the back end for the future social network on it. After a few days of deliberation the recommendation to use phpizabi. For good or worse, that’s what we began developing myeeos with. There are some things about phpizabi I really like a lot, but some things I don’t like so much at all. The platform that myeeos now runs on in great in its own right and does have phpizabi roots, but that’s about it. I’m not interested in re-reviewing the few products I think are worthy of testing in search for the perfect social networking script.

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