Spun

Spent a few days playing with the awesome Ubiquity Firefox extension, and yesterday I dove into developing my own command. Here’s the result: a Google search of Lifehacker’s archives that shows up in-panel in Ubiquity, like this:

The code itself is Javascript that uses a jQuery template for results. It’s heavily ripped off from the existing Google search command (with the site:lifehacker.com operator thrown in). If you haven’t tried out Ubiquity, here’s my introductory tutorial.

Thanks a million to Sean Lynch at the Fairleads blog for walking through building scaffolding in Ruby on Rails 2.0; it was a huge help in my first week of RoR programming.

Yes, I knew that popular, cheap domain registrar GoDaddy always used sex to sell their services, and yes, their bullying upsells always bugged me, but yesterday’s Super Bowl ad shot my “Stop doing business with GoDaddy” to-do to the top of my list. But where to transfer to? I polled my Twitter friends on which registrars were the best alternatives. Here’s a spreadsheet of the full vote tally; turns out the least expensive, top vote-getter was Namecheap.com.

Now that I’ve got a bit more free time on a day-to-day basis, I’m doing more development, so I’ve got more dev-related links that need a parking spot. Expect more posts at this blog, which has been newly upgraded to the impressive WordPress 2.7, starting now!