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"I love this! I hate digging my phone out of my pocket for a text message that I probably won't respond to. Most of the texts I get are reminders from my calendar or emergency notifications from NYC, so more useful on the watch as well." - Megan Taylor

"But, as the article referenced states, habits are already formed by the time students get to college. The mind is already beginning to set in the pattern that was dictated by prior education. So the high school experience is still very much relevant." - Megan Taylor

BackPress is a PHP library of core functionality for web applications. It grew out of the immensely popular WordPress project, and is also the core of the bbPress and GlotPress sister-projects. - Megan Taylor

"That's a damned good point. How many potentially good stories get published as crap because the journalist just wasn't interested in the topic? I actually never meant to be a reporter - I was/am aiming for programmer/journalist. I started writing more because that was a major problem potential employers had with my resume - plenty of online experience, not enough writing. Now I find that writing is a better way to keep my foot in the door while I learn and grow and figure out what I really want to be doing." - Megan Taylor

"I don't think anybody has a right to judge anyone else's career or job choices. Especially in this country's current state. While I'm still pursuing journalism and have my finger in several pies, it's not my full-time job. Not by choice, but if I held out for a job in journalism I'd be homeless by now. Sometimes reality just sucks." - Megan Taylor

In this kickass Wordpress article there are 24 total resources that will show you how to design and code Wordpress themes from scratch. This includes 9 design and coding tutorials, 12 Photoshop mockups, 2 Wordpress e-books, and even a developers “Cheat Sheet”. - Megan Taylor

"Hip hop was an innovation back when it was created as a new form of music. That's not what's innovative about this project though: the innovation is in the combination of technologies to connect the real world to the virtual world." - Megan Taylor

The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post. - Megan Taylor

Docsplit is a command-line utility and Ruby library for splitting apart documents into their component parts: searchable UTF-8 plain text, page images or thumbnails in any format, PDFs, single pages, and document metadata (title, author, number of pages...) - Megan Taylor

A hyperlocal news site for WordPress. This add-on for Elemental includes custom widgets for Google Adsense, Maps, YouTube, local Twitter updates, weather and more. - Megan Taylor

Framework includes all 3 layers of front-end: structural, presentational and interactive what makes it the true all-in-one solution for your next front-end project. - Megan Taylor

StatusNet is the open source micro messaging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain. With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand. - Megan Taylor

YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it. There's a WordPress plugin available for YOURLS, making integration with your blog a snap: create short URLs and tweet them automagically as you publish blog posts. - Megan Taylor

Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations - Megan Taylor

derek willis' class - Megan Taylor

In this article we are going to learn about the basics of HTTP headers and how we can use them in our web applications. - Megan Taylor

It takes very little technical knowledge to make your first plugin! - Megan Taylor

how using PHP’s include function for common elements can speed up development time. - Megan Taylor

content sliders, image galleries, navigation, forms and tables - Megan Taylor

"I haven't had occasion to use Joomla yet. Going by Craigslist job ads, it has become pretty popular, so it's on the list of stuff to learn. Some day. When I have, you know, free time. :)" - Megan Taylor

"Thanks! I won't be using Drupal for this particular project, but it can never hurt to know another CMS, so I'm sure I'll be figuring things out eventually." - Megan Taylor

"My fight with Drupal has been postponed. I bashed my brains in for a couple of days, and then got word that the client had approve Magento as an alternative. Since all the e-commerce features I needed come out of the box and the theming is much easier, I'm going that route this time." - Megan Taylor

Regular expressions can be scary...really scary. Fortunately, once you memorize what each symbol represents, the fear quickly subsides. If you fit the title of this article, there's much to learn! Let's get started. - Megan Taylor

Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screencast in seconds. - Megan Taylor

Today we begin Part 1 of an 8-Part series on building a web application from absolute scratch to a complete product. - Megan Taylor

With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level. - Megan Taylor

solution to Magento installation login problems. - Megan Taylor

In this tutorial, you’ll learn step-by-step how to design an awesome band website that any rock and roller would be proud to call their own. The theme is grungy and worn-and-torn and we’ll use a handful of freebies along the way. - Megan Taylor

The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a network of law firms, law school clinics, in-house counsel, and individual lawyers throughout the United States willing to provide pro bono legal assistance to qualifying online journalism ventures and other digital media creators. - Megan Taylor

Goal: To make a simple, elegant, highly-flexible, drop-in twitter list widget that anyone can use on their website/blog/profile/whatever. The Twitter List widget is almost identical to the search widget except you use widget_list.js instead of widget.js, set jtw_list instead of jtw_search, and jtw_widget_refresh_interval is in minutes instead of seconds. - Megan Taylor