There are many services out there that offer widgets you can embed into your own web site layouts.  How do you know which ones are the best?  Well, I am not an expert. Since this is the Internet though, I can pretend.
Here are my top 10 favorite widget related web sites.
Widgetbox – Tons of free [...]

Firefox isn’t the only thing celebrating it’s fifth birthday this year.  This very blog, Mitchelaneous.com, is also now half a decade old.  As one of my oldest web sites still in existence, I have much love for the web site that really inspired me to write more.

Thanks to the powers of the Wayback Machine, here [...]

I am always looking for great web development resources to share, but this time around I am going to give you a link that also highlights the best of the best when it comes to designer or developer tools.  Corkdump.com is one of the best resource web sites for webmasters.

They provide resources for:

CSS/XHTML
JavaScript/AJAX [...]

Over the past few weeks I have reviewed a ton of blogging script software selections.  Some are good, some are just ok – and some, well I might not have a reason to use them, but you might.

Dotclear – Great Blogging Alternative
Easy Blog Publishing with Zomplog
Eggblog, the Free PHP MySQL Blogging Script
Beautiful Blogging with Textpattern
Database-less [...]

Textpattern is another one of those great blogging scripts that often gets forgotten about with the surge of popularity that WordPress has had over the past few years.  It is a elegant, flexible and easy to use content management system that is both open source and free to use.

The requirements are pretty basic to [...]

If you are in the search for a PHP-powered blogging application that gives you an easy gateway into running a blog, online diary or even a complete web page – Serendipity is a free script worth checking out.
Looking over the fresh install instructions, the process looks pretty straight forward.  You upload, configure and get [...]

Nucleus CMS is like WordPress’s less popular friend, that does all the same things but doesn’t get the same love from the public.  A light, flexible and secure publishing platform, Nucleus CMS is definitely worth check out if you are looking for an alternative blogging platform.
The Nucleus CMS install process isn’t rocket science, so that [...]

While a little light on documentation, Eggblog looks to be a nice alternative blogging script for those of you who might not want to follow the fold and use WordPress or one of the other more popular solutions out there.
Some of the features of Eggblog are:

easy to use web-based administration to add, edit and [...]

There are a lot of blogging tools out there under the sun.  One that does not get much credit, but I think is pretty nice is Dotclear.  An open-source web publishing software, Dotclear has been around since 2002.  The project’s purpose is to provide a user-friendly tool allowing anyone to publish on the web, regardless [...]

Thus far I have to say that WordPress 2.6 looks like a pretty awesome upgrade.  Just did a few upgrades myself, but haven’t had time yet to play with everything that is new…

I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz [...]