In my quest to understand all things interface related I stumbled across this TED Talks video of Beau Lotto. His insight into optical illusions and how our brain processes the visual information it receives is well worth the 15 minute watch.

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I’m not big on negativity, but that’s how I feel about it. I’ve expressed my displeasure with the WordPress.org plugin repository before, (it’s gotten slightly better since then) but now it’s time to gripe about the theme directory — and it sucks.

I’d like to post a few themes from Bustatheme.com to the directory, but I have a few issues as does nearly every other WordPress theme developer that offer premium WordPress themes for free. There’s a reason we all offer our themes from our own sites: We work hard and strain our brain of all its creative juices when producing AAA themes and we’d like to benefit from that hard work.

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Let me preface this post with the fact that I am not an iPhone App reviewer, and I didn’t take the time to check out every possible option for every function I needed. These are the iPhone Apps I bought for the purposes listed below. If you have another App that does the same something better, let me know in the comments section.

For IRC: Rooms
One way I stay constantly connected to my developers is through IRC. If you don’t know what it is, don’t worry about it. All you need to know is that if you need IRC on your iPhone, you need Rooms.

For FTP: FTP On The Go
As far as an FTP client for the iPhone, FTP On The Go is pretty much your only choice. At $9.99 it’s on the upper end of the price spectrum, but well worth it in my opinion. Manage multiple FTP accounts: download, edit and upload. My only complaint with this app is the built-in text editor: There is (currently) no option to turn off word-wrapping which means any structure you have to your markup is useless and it makes editing files more dubious than it already is.

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I’ve been wanting to make a simple script that was entirely self-contained for a while now, but I haven’t been sure on exactly what I wanted to do. Something I’ve done more times than I care to count is write code that reads a directory and displays the files in some form or fashion. It’s something I know inside and out so I figured why not make a directory listing script that uses icons to represent individual file types and embed those images into the script itself. So I started coding.

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Warning: If this post sounds much more sinical than usual, it’s because the lack of attention this particular area of software has received from the OS community is unacceptable and half-arsed attempts make it all the more frustrating.

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So this is kind of cool. SkeletonCMS has been included on OpenSourceCMS.com.

I’ll definitely have to spend some time to flesh it out, but since it’s an official OSS project, those of you who would like to contribute to the Skeleton flat file CMS please leave me a message.

You know when you start off reading your morning feeds and happen to click on a link, then another, then you have no idea how you got to the site you ended up at but you’re glad you did? Such is the case with todays afternoon dose of rss for me and it landed me on everystockphoto.com. This site is awesome. Think iStockPhoto without the i – that is if i somehow stood for “costs money”…

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