bradKELLETT

I’ve been using a little bash script I wrote that will automatically minify any Javascript and CSS files recursively in a directory with the YUI Compressor, and I thought I’d share it with the world. With the script, you can chose to minify just Javascript (with the -j option), just CSS (with the -c option), [...]

I’ve been doing web development for many years now, and over time I’ve discovered a few tools that make my life easier. I’ve used these in personal projects and recommended them to others, and I thought I’d share them here. While I’m a web guy, most of these can quite easily be used for other [...]

I have been using the new Brightkite location-aware social network (invite-only at this point) a lot over the last few days, and one of the very common questions I hear is how I do check-ins from my mobile phone, since at this point only U.S. carriers are supported for their SMS service. The (not so) [...]

Read about some changes and updates. The general response to my hesitation on the release of my Twitter timeline export tool was that I should, indeed, release it. So I have. The tool now carries one of the most attractive names around: TweetDumpr. With it, you can export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV [...]

Update: I have now released the tool. As part of developing the Twitter Stats application, I created a standalone script that will dump a user’s entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file (comma separated value, readable by spreadsheet applications such as Excel), including the tweet text and the post time. Initially, it was my intention [...]

After a suggestion from @abacab, I have created a little Twitter trivia bot. This bot posts a random fact from RandomFacts.org to its Twitter account every hour. There are some really interesting things coming through on it, so if you like trivia, give @triviabot a follow. I will be adding more features soon, such as [...]

I have created a Google Code page to house the source for Twitter Stats. Both the web version and the command line CSV-output version are available through a straight download or SVN. While the other contributors and I don’t have a problem with derivative works (the code is released under the GPLv2 license), we would [...]

For all those Twitter lovers out there, like me, I’ve put together a little script based on the work found here to calculate some statistics from your Twitter timeline and present them using the Google Charts API. Statistics include: Tweets per hour of the day Total Tweets per day of the week Total Tweets per [...]

(Yes, an update. I know it’s been a while, but I will try to blog more regularly.) While I understand Google had to do a lot behind the scenes to ensure that actions mapped into Gmail properly, it has been a long wait for long-time Gmail users like me to get IMAP support in Google’s [...]

I have been running with a sidebar (the aptly named Desktop Sidebar application) ever since I started using a dual monitor setup many years back. The added productivity from having so much at your fingertips certainly makes up for the small loss of screen real estate. I have tried a couple of different alternatives, but [...]