Posts by Jamii
A Few Favorite WordPress Plugins
These are some of the plugins I enjoy using when building WordPress websites WP Help – A great plugin designed to create a collection of posts only visible from the dashboard. I use it to document things about the website. Envira Gallery – The free version of this image gallery plugin works nicely out of…
Read MoreSpice Islands Spaghetti Sauce Seasoning
This spice mixture was a staple of my father’s spaghetti recipe, so I was really distressed to hear it had been discontinued by the Spice Island folks. The excellent website site Epicurious has a copy of the mixture recipe from the spiceisland.com website and posted a copy here. But, because I’m paranoid I’m creating a…
Read MoreMy Dad’s Spaghetti Sauce
Many Sundays at our house my father would make spaghetti. The fragrant scents of tomatoes, garlic and red wine would fill the house for hours while the sauce simmered to perfection. This isn’t really a recipe that you type up and give to someone. It’s best learned like I did, at my father’s side watching…
Read MoreSouthwestern Minestrone Soup
This is based on a fairly classic Ministrone recipe modified with the New Mexico adage “it’s always better with green chile”. And I just really like pinto beans better than kidney beans 🙂
Read MoreThis is an amazing project!
This will have to be an Ingress Portal 🙂
Read MoreUdorami
Udorami is a social list building site. The project consists of a WordPress site for ease of editing, a CakePHP webapp to manage lists, and collaborations, and a javascript bookmarklet that loads on any webpage allowing you to easily add information to lists.
Read MoreArt Cards
Art Cards – Started out as an iOS app to display information for a yearly art tour that happens in Abiquiu, New Mexico. The project migrated to having a website, and a back-end app that could supply data to both the WordPress front-end and to the iOS app. Built in CakePHP. My contribution to this project…
Read MoreIngress FAQ for not quite beginners
Once you’re been playing Ingress for a few months you begin to see things that are confusing. Here are some common questions. How can someone have more than one L8 Resonator on a portal? This was a great mystery to me the first time I saw an L8 portal with resonators all owned by…
Read MoreIsraeli Salad
This salad is light and full of flavor. It is good with everything! I’ve even had it as a side with scrambled eggs for breakfast. The mint adds a refreshing quality.
Read MoreThe Bobiverse
I’m pretty sure if you’d told me I’d like a book that starts with a guy dying, then waking up as a disembodied artificial intelligence I would have scoffed. Yet, these books are great! Funny, full of action, and lots of creative problem solving. There are three books in the series so far. They follow…
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