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Anyone have a clue invite for NBC Universal?
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Yet another article about gPhone rumors.
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Free textures for use in artwork.
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Critical Rule #8: Understanding people is a lot more complex than following rules, but it’s a starting point.
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“Seemingly random questions have become commonplace in Silicon Valley and other tech outposts.” Personally, I find these questions insulting to the interviewee since they won’t be solving brainteasers regularly at the job.
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“Jeffery Zeldman discussed the soft skills that enable designers to get great work out in the world.”
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“Often-cited information architecture rules and highlighted counter examples that exposed why these rules might be better suited as design considerations.”
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“Lou Rosenfeld’s Search Analytics talk at An Event Apart outlined ways designers and developers could utilize search query logs to uncover insights about their site’s audience and needs.”
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Wikipedia entry for the working man’s holiday.
Month: August 2007
Training the Trainer (T*t) in Tucson
It’s not every day a well-known, highly regarded Web professional gives away their hard-earned knowledge and precious time for free. Nonetheless, that’s what my good friend, Molly E. Holzschlag, is doing in her Train the Trainer (T*t) workshop series.
For almost every weekend starting in mid-September and ending in October, Molly is hosting six educators for the free two-day workshop in Tucson, Arizona.
If you happen to get one of the 24 golden tickets to her workshop, you’re a lucky one as the workshop itinerary is impressive:
- Day One
- HTML & XHTML intensive. Principles, best practices, issues of concern
- Lunch discussion: Open discussion of issues and concerns to group
- CSS Theory Part I
- Day Two
- CSS Theory Part II, contemporary design considerations
- Lunch discussion: Open discussion of issues and concerns to group
- Standards workflow, SEO, basic Accessibility, intro to Microformats
- Dinner and drinks at a local Sonoran Mexican restaurant including vegan & vegetarian as well as a wide range of other options
On the last T*t workshop that takes place October 27–28, I’m flattered to aid Molly in presenting my talk on IE7 and CSS, “Releasing CSS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IE7”.
Also, I’m looking forward to the lunch discussions where I hope I won’t make the participants poorer by giving them my two cents regarding any Web design or development questions or concerns they might have.
For more information, check out Molly’s post about Training the Trainer.
Hope to see you there!
links for 2007-08-30
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Joseph Smarr’s talk at Yahoo! about using JavaScript for Web 2.0 applications.
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Google and Yahoo! are rumored to be in development of respective phone operating systems. While expensive, 600 dollars today for an iPhone that works sounds a lot better than a cheaper phone that’s vaporware.
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“Whether you are new to performance testing, or looking for ways to improve your current performance testing approach, you will find insights that you can tailor for your specific scenarios.”
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Seth Godin talks about making numbers interesting for a presentation.
links for 2007-08-29
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“Are you becoming frustrated trying to make your Mac OS X machine act as a proper email server? Have you been considering turning your Mac into an email server but you were not sure where to start? Are you intimidated by sendmail?”
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“Art of Office is for Mac users pushing the boundaries of what can be done in Mac Office.”
links for 2007-08-28
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Arson or accident? Well, that narrows it down.
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Interesting snippets about Internet-age business. I liked the concept that proximity kills productivity.
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It’s off to a good start. The HTML needs a bit more semantic touch up.
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A simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
links for 2007-08-27
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I agree that an interrupted day can help fulfill one’s goals, but we live in an era where constant interruptions are the norm. Realizing this, how does one get quality work done?
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The video won’t be visible until next month due to exceeding bandwidth. However, he does give some hints as to how to create the effect in the post. Time to experiment on my own and come back and compare notes in a few weeks.
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“Pico is a computer interface that can move electromagnetic pucks, merging the digital and physical worlds.”
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I’ve tinkered with Dapper in the past, but didn’t find it as quick and easy as they said. I checked the service out today. They’ve come a long way in a short amount of time.
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“The out-of-work computer programmer had stumbled on to one of the bigger inside jokes on the Internet, and at the same time, stumbled into his next job.”
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Clean design prevails, but anarchic MySpace will always have a special place in my heart.
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“No self-respecting hipster would ever enter this contest let alone being a hipster in the first place. So we are forced to assume that our contestant’s participation is strictly ironic.”
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“Allows you to add a Cover Flow™ effect (including reflection) to images on your Web pages.”
links for 2007-08-24
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“Event delegation refers to the technique of reducing the number of event listeners attached to the document by attaching just one listener to a containing element and testing in the handler where that event has bubbled up from.”
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“TubeStop is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that disables the autoplay on YouTube videos. This means that you can open multiple YouTube videos in tabs in the background without them all starting to play at once.”
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Why spend a little money for an old console game, when you can spend a lot of money for a phone and old games?
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“And this isn’t just for you, Mr. do-my-logo-for-a-hundred-dollars, this is for everyone who devalues the work of good graphic designers.”
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It’s a nice effect, but today’s kids want the JavaScript-enhanced animation, too.
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A white or pink noise generator.
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“The novice asked the backup master which files he should backup…”
links for 2007-08-23
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A simple CSS trick that helps with tabular data displays.
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A tutorial on CSS rollovers.
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A large list of tools to help freelancers (or anyone in the Internet era) be more productive.
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Bloggers are doing the reporting that journalists should be doing. Maybe journalists should move to a different media that’s not limited by owning a printing press or an FCC license.
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“The accident took place on Monday. On Tuesday, witnesses saw a service crew splashing white paint over the name “China Airlines” and the plum flower logo on the aircraft’s tail.”
links for 2007-08-22
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“This is a quick PHP script to help generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css.”
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View space with updated version of Google Earth.
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“This time, for some reason, I decided to take a look at my underlying assumptions.” Sounds like famous last words to me.
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Paper by Shai Avidan of Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and Ariel Shamir of The Interdisciplinary Center & MERL
links for 2007-08-21
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It’s been a while since I had to convince anyone of switching to CSS. Are we still in the 90s?
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Free and fairly robust screen capturing tool for the Mac platform.
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“It’s codenamed Moviestar, because it includes H.264 standard video support – the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players.”
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“A lot of people ask me where they can get good-quality images, so I thought it would be good to have one post that I could bookmark and send out to people.”
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A rundown of the Web services that provide support for third-party application development. Next step is profit.
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Convert HTML text to wiki markup. Finally, I can start using wikis now.
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“A Design Description Document (DDD) is, essentially, a slide deck that shows detailed use cases alongside wireframes or comps in an effort to detail all the interactions in a design. And it has quite a few major benefits.”
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Funky Web application
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Tripoli is a CSS standard for HTML rendering. It adds the CSS base you need to skip the typographic basics and get on with design customization while relying on a solid, cross-browser backend.