SELECT a.user_id, a.email, a.firstname, a.lastname, a.created, b.name AS team, c.name AS locale, d.name AS role FROM users AS a LEFT JOIN (roles AS d) ON (a.role_id = d.role_id) LEFT JOIN (teams AS b CROSS JOIN locales AS c) ON (a.team_id = b.team_id AND b.locale_id = c.locale_id) ORDER BY a.created

Now turn to the left and repeat.

• Coda: Integrated preview, SVN, FTP, terminal, and an attractive site management component make this a powerful and unparalleled IDE.
• Transmit: A versatile FTP client, also from the Panic team.
• Splunk: Log indexing and search tool I used extensively at my last job. Proven quite useful in monitoring Apache & PHP logs - or anything else you throw at it.
• CSSEdit: An innovative CSS editor with great preview and inspection features.
• SQL Buddy: Web-based MySQL admin similar to phpMyadmin but AJAXy, faster and more attractive.

That was really more of a shout out.

• Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• MySQL Cookbook by Paul Dubois

This post was inspired by Oaktree Creative. NOTE: I know, I didn’t take a picture of the stack, but that’s OK.

The previous menu was a fancier image map with a tag-cloud-like feel written in Franklin Caslon alternating between CAPs and lowercase. Attractive, sure, but something about the presentation made me nervous, and it wasn’t just the text-indent: -99999999px; property - itself a point of contention in some circles. No, my qualms were accessibility and extensibility (not just a CS term anymore) and how the menu played with the Feng Shui of the current layout.

Given the technical and minimalist approach to my site, I decided the new menu had to be purely textual and should not break if I ever wish to add new pages. Nevertheless, I did not want to compromise style for efficiency. After some tinkering I decided on the simple horizontal list you see above. Subtle, yet accessible, punctuated by a dash of obscurity - “ou” translates to “or” in Portuguese. Enjoy.

#!/usr/bin/perl

foreach (1..100)
{
    print $_ unless $_ % 5 == 0 || $_ % 3 == 0;
    print "Fizz" if $_ % 3 == 0;
    print "Buzz" if $_ % 5 == 0;
    print "\n";
}

Suffice to say my impromptu script was not quite as articulate. Also, I chose green.