Urban Giraffe

Latest Software Release

• Redirection 2.1.15 - New Ajax and Japanese

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  WordPress SEO Plugin Comparison

  March 22, 2009

  

  I realised that I've added a lot of functionality to HeadSpace without actually making any kind of announcement about it. To make up for this this I decided to produce a comparison chart showing HeadSpace in relation to other popular SEO orientated plugins. This is not a chance to poke competitors in the eye but just an erstwhile attempt for me to show exactly what HeadSpace can do and how it stacks up to other plugins. It's also a good excuse to make sure I can tick as many boxes as possible - HeadSpace is now in its fourth year and although development is still going strong, it is easy to get stuck in your own world and not see what is happening outside.

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  Localization Thanks

  March 9, 2009

  I try and make a point of localizing all software I produce so that it can be used by as many different people as possible. Last year I wrote some articles (Translating WordPress Plugins and Localizing WordPress Plugins) detailing how to localize a plugin and theme from both a developers and translators point of view. Since then my plugins have been receiving a steady stream of translations and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who's not only helped produce translation but also pointed out areas of my code that were not yet localized.

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  Querious

  March 8, 2009

  A few days after I wrote about Sequel Pro, a link from Daring Fireball leads me to Querious, a commercial OS X based MySQL management tool. At a glance it seems to offer everything that Sequel Pro has, along with the ability to manage users and permissions.

  Hot on the heals of this The Apple Blog has a Sequel Pro vs. Querious showdown. The conclusion is similar, and the comments make for interesting reading with links to further tools.

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  Sequel Pro

  February 16, 2009

  

  Back in 2007 I wrote about CocoaMySQL, a small GUI for MySQL that allows you to manipulate and manage MySQL databases through a native Cocoa application. Since then development of CocoaMySQL died off and it has since been abandoned. A shame really as it did have several frustrating quirks that spoiled an otherwise great application.

  Recently I came across Sequel Pro, a fork of CocoaMySQL that has big plans to stabilise the core code and turn it into a multi-engine database management tool (with support for SQLite and PostgresSQL scheduled for the future). Despite being available since early 2008 I’ve seen very little mention of Sequel Pro.

  In terms of functionality Sequel Pro seems to be an almost exact match for CocoaMySQL, only with a smarter interface and less annoying quirks. The account management is still inconsistent, and lengthy operations still lock the interface up, but otherwise it’s a good step in the right direction and has already replaced CocoaMySQL as my SQL tool of choice.

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