Monthly Archives: May 2010

Make Web Not War 2010 – a recap

With guitarpick dogtags, military paraphranalia and a notebook with the cover text “Why the f@&#* is Microsoft doing this?” Make Web Not War set a new standard for conferences. The first words out of my mouth as I stepped off … Continue reading

The Unholy Quatern at Web Not War 2010 in Montreal

UPDATE: The Unholy Quatern session I did at Web Not War 2010 was loosely based on an article I wrote for the Microsoft Expression Newsletter last year. To get a more in-depth walk-through of my work process and some more … Continue reading

Cool Author Box: Free WordPress Plugin

After designing and building the Fancy Profile Box for the Pink & Yellow Media site I published an article on how to recreate it as a cool author box in your WordPress blog. This tutorial spurred a lot of interest … Continue reading

Twitter force-follow exploit makes us all friendless

Last night our dear friends at Gizmodo released a simple exploit that allowed you to force Twitter users to follow you, an exploit already nicknamed “twape” (a combination of the words “twitter” and “rape”… classy). The exploit was ridiculously simple: … Continue reading

Build a fancy WordPress author box

If you have a WordPress site or blog with multiple authors it might be useful to create a custom author box for each of them so the readers can get more information about the author and see their other posts … Continue reading