Feedmarker Blog

Feedmarker has been rewritten in Ruby on Rails. It’s basically the same application, although I’ve stripped out some stuff people weren’t using (maps, groups, etc.).Feedmarker is now open-source. You can download the source here.There are sure to be some bugs, as this is fairly new and untested code, so please feel free to e-mail me [...]

Excerpt from this article in Forbes about the ecomics of prostitution:
Economists have been equating money and marriage ever since Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker published his seminal paper “A Theory of Marriage” in two parts in 1973 and 1974 …Becker allowed nonmonetary elements, like romantic love and companionship, to be entered into courtship’s profit and [...]

It started with LightboxJS by Lokesh Dhakar; he created a script you could use to overlay images on your page. Then ParticleTree modified the script to let you create a modal window. Then PJ Hyett posted a stripped down, simplified version of the script.I liked all of those, and I think the lightbox/modal dialog [...]

A lot of people were visiting the free ajax wordsearch creator, taking screenshots of the puzzles they made, and then putting them on their sites.

That was OK, but I’ve made it better: now you can create a wordsearch that you can solve online and even put on your own site.

Here’s an example:

So head over to [...]

When I started working on the Free AJAX Wordsearch Creator (freewordsearch.teacherly.com), I thought it would be a handy tool for teachers to quickly and easily create wordfinds for their students. The idea was to offer a free tool teachers would like, and in the process drive traffic to Teacher! (www.teacherly.com), my easy online grading application.So [...]

Looking through the records in the Teacher! database, I realized that some people are using numbers instead of names to represent their students. That’s fine by me; one of my design objectives with Teacher! is to get the application out of the way. That means it doesn’t care how you choose to refer to your [...]

As I work towards opening up Teacher! (www.teacherly.com) to the public, I’ve been thinking about the best way of doing it.In the past, when I’ve launched an application, I just opened it up to everybody right off the bat. No betas, no invitations, just sign up and try it out. I think that was a [...]