Look for a few changes coming to this area. :)

Thankfully though, I have some good news. With the aid of that massive project, I can even tell you in a t-shirt:

If you click that t-shirt, you'll be taken to the first site that is using the technology I've been putting together between the rest of my responsibilities at work. To put it in a nutshell, T-shirts.Dyetub.com lets people make and share custom t-shirt designs.

T-shirts are pretty freakin' cool, so a website where you can design your own should be pretty freakin' cool, too. Of course, there are other sites out there where you can design a t-shirt but they want you to actually buy the shirt, not just show off your neat idea to your friends. So things like hotlinking are actively discouraged instead of embraced.

If you've ever had an idea for a t-shirt, go make it. Not sure how? Watch a quick movie to learn how. And be sure to let me know how it goes for you. :)

To focus my efforts I am temporarily suspending my tracking of all things industry-related. I've also moved all my RSS feed subscriptions from Safari to Google Reader (thanks to the excellent Automator script for exporting Safari RSS feeds to an OPML file!).

The idea of moving my bookmarks online has been nagging at me for almost a year so it's good that I had an excuse. :)

Bad News

The bookmarklet provided during the sign up process (v3) and the one I downloaded from the help section (v4) both failed to work in Safari. Each threw a syntax error.

Bad Bookmarklet v3:

javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/post?v=3&url='+ encodeURIComponent(location.href)+ '&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title.replace(/^\s*|i\s*g,''))

See the problem? The regular expression in the title.replace bit is missing the closing "/" plus it has the critical flaw that it removes all the spaces from the entire title, Not just the ones at the beginning and the end.

Bad Bookmarklet v4:

javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/post?v=4;url='+ encodeURIComponent(location.href)+';title='+ encodeURIComponent(document.title.replace(/^\s*|\s*g,''))

Same problem here, the only difference between versions is that this passes the variables via javascript instead of in the URL. Probably to deal with extraordinarily long URLs and titles breaking the maximum character length of the URI field.

Corrected Code (Just for fun, I'll call it v5):

javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/post?v=5;url='+ encodeURIComponent(location.href)+';title='+ encodeURIComponent(document.title.replace(/^\s*|\s*$/g,''))

Here we go! We've added our closing "/" and dropped in the dollar sign into the second condition to mean "only remove extra spaces from the end of the title."

Oh right, the link

Gregg's Bookmarks

Comment Spam

• Akismet Why? Because it's bundled with Wordpress, silly.
• Challenge I loath the idea of using a CAPTCHA because of accessibility concerns. I chose Challenge over other plugins because it allows me to provide PHP eval'd questions of my own. Once the bots get smarter at reading the standard question, I can generate my own variations.

Formatting

• PHP Markdown Of course, PHP Markdown is only possible because of John Grubers work building Markdown.

Fancy Shmancy Stuff

• IP to Country I still get excited when I realize that the people I am conversing with online (through forums, blogs, email, whatever) are from all over the world. :)

What's left to do? Add some comment spam plugins, jazz up the template, and post some entries. :D

Wondering what the entries will be about? This isn't going to be one of those blogs that has a highly focused niche topic like "news and commentary for red fuzzy widget enthusiasts." My only productive goal is to maintain a repository of solid PHP and regular expressions code snippets. Not for you my reader mind you, but for myself as I am constantly losing and rewriting code.

Beyond the technical, you can expect the occasional rant about SEO or Search Engine Marketing, frank discussions about choices I make every day about website usability and design, and the occasional link to an unusual site. Everything will be neatly categorized and you can always just subscribe to the category feed that interests you. (If wordpress doesn't allow this already, I'll be hacking together a plug-in to do so.)