About The Site
My name is Steven Merrill. I'm a classical singer and technologist based in New York, NY.
This site is my personal blog. My initial post lays out this site's scope and also the etymology of the name, in case you're interested.
You can find my work a number of other places on the web:
- I write technical articles about Drupal on Tree House Agency's blog.
- Brian McMurray and I wrote web development articles (often about Drupal, Flash, and the mobile web) at cascadingStyle.
- I put up a personal portfolio in mid-2008, but it hasn't been updated recently.
- My singing portfolio was a great proof-of-concept of a Drupal-driven Flash site with full Google-indexable content underneath, but has similarly been somewhat neglected.
- I microblog on Twitter and ident.ica under the moniker 00sven.
Thanks for stopping by!
Microblog Updates
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Worked out twice. Ate beer ice cream and it was good. La vida es bueno.1 week 10 hours ago
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Dunkin' Donuts in Latin America doesn't have their (apparently not world-) famous coffee, only espresso drinks. Weird.1 week 1 day ago
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An article that elucidates a lot of my thoughts recently about development: http://ping.fm/wfDUD1 week 1 day ago
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Last night was a multicultural night. I butchered Spanish, drank Belgian, sang Italian and spoke German. Most importantly, I danced gringo.1 week 2 days ago
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Earth-shaking, indeed. http://ping.fm/SbSmW1 week 2 days ago
Linkblog
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Using vim to develop Drupal on nearly any platform.
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A bookmarklet that lets you see the box model in a browser without needing to open your favorite dev tool.
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The coolest way I\'ve yet seen to handle form labels and default values.
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The polar opposite of the \"keep the database in code!\" argument. Side note: I had no idea that stream wrappers were this powerful!
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Very cool API - all your API needs in one site, and free for low to middling volume. Rawk on!
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A presentation by @harryh that shows some examples of the Lift framework from Foursquare.
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Can\'t update something because your CVS server (like maybe Drupal.org) recently changed its passwords? This will do the trick.
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A smattering of cloud voice APIs.
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A great tool for writing and testing regexes and then getting the code to use them in JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby.