Lists like this one makes me very happy. Wonder how I can encourage more people to make them :)

The #iusethis channel on irc.perl.org, while we were sleeping:

05:28  * perigrin hugs marcus
05:45 < jrockway> you reversed it, i think :)
05:45 < perigrin> yeah but your iusethis helped me recover most of what I had
                  installed when I lost my hdar drive
05:46 < perigrin> hard even

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This is how a live iusethis count with a logo currently looks. However, I am unable to include that in any blogs I have tested so far. Any suggestions for better ways to make dynamic content that bloggers can include in their posts? For example, I'd like for them to be able to use this in a header for an app review, or to blog what apps you are using. The only thing that springs to mind is making dynamic images, but that seems like a very crude way to implement such a feature. I understand the security concerns here, but I'm still a little frusterated with the limitations.

Dear lazyweb, please help? *sigh*

(This will be the first in a series where I show how I solved some of the issues in making http://osx.iusethis.com/) Iusethis uses a common layout style with one main pane, and a smaller right-hand sidebar. We've made it so it is easy to reuse these sidebar items by putting them in a /sidebar folder in our template directory. Then we can just do stuff like [% PROCESS sidebar/didyouknow.tt %], and presto, you have a box like the one you can see on SQLitemanager for instance. This box was implemented 100% in the TT view, so that it doesn't require anything from the controller. To pick a random number, I use the TT Math plugin like this:

 [%USE Math %]
 [%SET tip=Math.int(Math.rand(10))+1%]

This assigns a number from 1 to 10 to the TT tip variable. Now it's just a simple matter of using a TT switch:

[% SWITCH tip %]
[% CASE 1 %]
You need to floss more often
[% CASE 2 %]
Don't Panic 
[% CASE 3 %]
...
[% END %]

And that's it, really. Hope this comes in handy for someone :)

I am very surprised and pleased by all the comments on our question about removing core apps. Guess we should involve users more in the development process.