Wednesday, July 1, 2009 –
In the documentary, Sketches of Frank Gehry, architect, Frank Gehry has it figured out.
"I accept the projects based on wether I like them... the people, not the work."
— Frank Gehry
Art critic, Mildred Friedman expands on this thought.
"Frank has figured out that the most important influence on the design is the client. If there's a terrific client to work with, you get a terrific building; and if there isn't, you don't."
—…
Friday, June 26, 2009 –
One of my favorite presentations from last week's An Event Apart was by Daniel Mall. He talked about the allies of web developers. We, as web developers, have long embraced HTML and CSS. More recently, JavaScript crossed the line from an annoyance littering our markup to an unobtrusive hero. We started embracing JavaScript when it became easy to separate script behavior from markup. Jeremy Keith wrote about behavioral separation in…
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 –
This morning, Rob sent around a short movie from Google Creative Labs.
Google asks 50 people in Times Sq. what a browser is and most people aren't sure.
My initial reaction was surprise. How could these people not know what a browser is? Don't they remember Code Rush from 1998 when browser wars were king? There are web ads, blogs, even TV ads for Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and now Chrome. How…
Thursday, June 11, 2009 –
Last night, most of iMarc went to play paintball. There are some valuable lessons to be learned in that game — the first of which is, wear padding, because those paintballs travel 300 feet per second. Ouch. But the second of which is: have a plan and trust your team.
The first couple of games were fast and short. Most of us headed out into the arena independently, heading for cover and running forward ... and getting shot almost immediately.…
Thursday, May 28, 2009 –
iMarc is looking for a Junior Web Developer to help us build
PHP-driven internet applications.
Learn more about us,
view our work,
and meet the team.
We're located in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
The ideal candidate has a couple years of work experience building web
sites and web applications. A portfolio of personal, freelance, or
work-related projects is required. While almost all of our work is…
Sunday, May 17, 2009 –
Everybody has passwords they need to keep secret, but that also need to be remembered. Managing these passwords can be a pain and time consuming. For these reasons, a lot of people just decide to have one password for everything, which can be disastrous if your info falls into the wrong hands. I was one of those people who had mainly one password for everything. I knew that what I was doing was insecure, so I decided to look for a…
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 –
Email exchange today:
Robert, 16:00: some files in my drop box folder are owned by root and i can't delete them. can you assist when you have a few minutes?
Dave, 16:24: All set - I deleted your drop box.
Thursday, April 16, 2009 –
Steven Frank (developer at Panic, my favorite indie mac software house) just wrote a long, rambly exploration of the state of computing — mostly focusing on the fundamentals of user interfaces. The desktop personal computer interface hasn't changed significantly in over 20 years.
John Gruber says Steven offers an "explanation for why we’re seeing far more UI innovation on mobile devices than on desktop computers, despite the fact that they…
Thursday, March 26, 2009 –
Remember my CAPTCHA rant? While trying to buy NIN/JA tickets, I encountered the worst captcha yet: I don't know if it's bot-proof, but it took two coworkers to help figure it out. In what world is this a good idea?
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 –
Debug CSS is nothing new. Eric Meyer has been talking about them since the 1940's. Still, not many developers use them when building and testing.
I just added a debug CSS to a site that we're working on. Its purpose is to visually highlights 5 markup problems.
Images with a blank alt attribute value, i.e. alt="". This won't cause validation errors, but a blank alt doesn't help with accessibility either.
Images with a missing…
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