Projects

Dan builds things. He writes code. He talks into a microphone. What follows is a list of the projects, sites, and podcasts Dan is a part of, as well as a collection of links to the software he has developed.

Websites

Playgrounder

Playgrounder is a web magazine helping parents and kids find the very best stuff. We dig up the best toys, games, gear, clothes, DVDs and more. New items are posted daily.

Cork’d

Co-created with Dan Cederholm, Cork’d is a free service for reviewing, sharing and discovering wine. Acquired in 2007 by Gary Vaynerchuk.

Overlapr

A handy little app to compare peoples’ Twitter followers and friends.

The A List Apart CMS

Created the Ruby on Rails-based content management system behind one of the web’s most popular and longest-running online magazines.

Shows, Podcasts, and Screencasts

Rails Envy Podcast

Co-host of this Ruby (and Rails) focused podcast, starting with Episode 90.

The Talk Show

The world’s best podcast. Co-hosted with John Gruber of Daring Fireball.

Tack Sharp

A podcast about photography, offering an amateur’s and professional’s take on gear, technique, and more. Co-hosted with James Duncan Davidson.

PeepCode

Creating screencasts like Meet the Command Line, Meet Mercurial, and Advanced Command Line.

Software

Enkoder Form

The Enkoder web form helps protect email addresses by obfuscating them using JavaScript so that only real people using real browsers will see them.

Enkoder for Mac OS X

This application offers the same functionality as the Enkoder Form, as a free download for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Shrimp

Shrimp is an ExpressionEngine plugin providing URL shortening functionality.

Enkoder Rails Plugin

The Enkoder plugin is an extension to the TextHelper ActionView helper to provide the Enkoder functionality to a Ruby on Rails application.

Image Rotator

This PHP script will rotate an image from a pool of images every time a web page is visited (or reloaded). Unlike JavaScript-based image rotators, this is a server-side script and the rotation happens when the page is loaded.

FlickrTouchr

A Python script to grab all your photos from flickr and dump them into a directory, organized into folders by set name, an extension of the original script by Colm MacCárthaigh.