TwitColors.com

UPDATE: Great news for designers! TwitColors now allows you to download a certain user's color scheme in .ACO format. You can find the download link below the user's color listing.

A few days ago I made a blog post stating that I'm working on a bunch of projects that I really hope to get online asap. Well, I have a good news for both you and me. One of them is online.

The project I'm talking about now is TwitColors, a new way to explore Twitter from a colorful perspective.

It basically analyzes the Twitter profile image of a given person and brakes it to up to 10 unique colors which are then matched to a database of thousands of already discovered colors and Twitter users and generates it's color scheme as well as tops for the most and least used colors in profile images among different tweeps.

Example color schemes: http://twitcolors.com/encu, http://twitcolors.com/loic

But enough with the talk. Go and check it out at http://twitcolors.com

Projects

When I said there is a lot coming I wasn't kidding. And I say it again: I've got a lot coming up in a short while.

Aside from my work I've been developing 4 other personal projects. This projects are in their early age but I am almost sure at least one will see the day light quite soon.

I can't tell you much about these four projects but I can tell you that they're pretty different. They range from G.A. [ as in General Audience ] to D.O. [ as in Developer-Only].

This being said I hope you can now understand why I will not be able to keep the interesting posts coming around here, since I'm focusing my efforts on raising these for babies. :-)

Chyrp. Why?

Until two days ago when I thought about a blog I thought about WordPress (no, not because I didn't know any other alternatives but because I considered it to be the best). But every time I installed WordPress I found myself installing a whole shitload of plugins and widgets and then realizing that I do not need them and removing them.

Leaving the time I was losing doing so aside, the fact is that WordPress is quite poorly written. Having both structural and object-oriented code, huge classes that you do not actually need and the like. It was quite a memory hog.

If I used all that features I would have gladly gone with WordPress once again. But then I discovered Chyrp. I would call it a barebone blog cms. Why? Because when you first install it, it's quite blind. It has a few (and just a few) features and that's all. But that was almost everything I needed.

Installing it is a breeze. You might want to enable a few modules to give it a little more functionality but that's all. You'll end up with having a good blogging system, that's both functional and fast (ok, it could be even faster by optimizing it a little further). And when I say functional I say it has everything I need at the moment.

There is only one downside to Chyrp: the number of themes available is quite small, but the upside to this is that the default theme that comes with it (and which you can see over here) is really nice (or at least I like it).

I'll be sure to dive in and tune it a little bit more, just to see how fast I can get it to be. Oh, and my error log is empty (and I'm having my error reporting set to E_ALL).

Hello

After thinking a lot whether to start blogging again or not I decided I should give it another chance, since the only thing stoping me from doing it was... the freaking lack of time :-).

Won't say anything more about it now, you'll see what this is going to be about. But please remember that this will be dedicated to development related talk only :-)