Send email in plain text - not “formatted” or HTML. Your font is hideous and your gratuitous spacing is offensive. Don’t even get me started on background images. Convey your message with punctuation, letters, words and sentences. If something is *really important* you can use asterisks, like that.
Keep it short and to the point - [...]
How to Write Email
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Event Handling with input & label Redux
Friday, October 12, 2007
This is a brief follow-up to Faulty Firing (see that post for the description of the tests) with updated results in the latest browsers.
Firefox 2.0.0.7 (Mozilla 1.8.1.7) & Firefox 3.0a9 (“Minefield”)
mousedown, focus, mouseup, click, change
focus, click, change
blur, focus, click
Internet Explorer 7
mousedown, focus, mouseup, click
click, focus
change, blur, click, focus
Safari 3.0.3 Beta
mousedown, mouseup, change, click
change, click
click
Opera 9.5 [...]
9rules Takes a Dive
Friday, October 5, 2007
I’m going to keep this short and sweet. 9rules, the community I was admitted to based on the quality of my site content, has recently made a change in policy. This quote sums it up:
…participation in either the new member area or my.9rules is required for all members…
Tyme White
Essentially, in the interest of “fairness”, only [...]
New Print Stylesheet
Monday, September 10, 2007
I never got around to writing a print stylesheet for posts when I redesigned this site the last time, so I went ahead and did so tonight. It’s very minimalist and uses a serif font for printed readability (Georgia to be exact).
I’ve tested the output in Safari and Firefox on some of my more complicated [...]
Technorati Cosmos Links Display for WordPress
Friday, August 17, 2007
Sometimes when I write an article I know that there is a low potential value for comments directly on the article. In these cases, I close comments and encourage linking to the article from other sites, hoping to encourage more thoughtful replies and a richer discourse. Well that’s great, but it’s not much of a [...]
Google Maps Driving Directions Game
Friday, July 27, 2007
Pamela Fox of the Google Maps API team recently released a driving directions game based on the Google Maps Driving Directions API. It’s neat, but, especially in areas with which I’m intimately familiar, the routes I choose are far better (more direct, faster) than what Google chooses.
It would be pretty awesome if they built a [...]
On Facebook, Gardens and The Open Web
Friday, July 13, 2007
Recently, Jason Kottke wrote about how Facebook is “a step sideways or even backwards (towards an AOL-style service) for the web”. Essentially, he argues that because nearly all data on Facebook is in their “walled garden”, inaccessible by Google and other non-members on the open web, the service is ultimately doomed. [...]
Will MySpace Change the Future of The Web?
Saturday, May 26, 2007
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“Lil Robb”
You know it when you see it. It used to be called “AOL speak” or “chat lingo” and now it’s recognized mostly from “the MySpace crowd” [...]
My Ideal Web Development Software Stack
Saturday, May 5, 2007
I do a lot of developing for the web, which makes sense seeing as though I’m a web developer. If I were developing with my ideal set of tools, the following things would be in that set:
Serving
FreeBSD 6 or Mac OS X Server
lighttpd — serving static files and running a reverse proxy
Apache 2
mod_python
Python 2.5
Django
Authoring
HTML 5
CSS [...]
Panic’s New Product Launch: Gorgeous
Monday, April 23, 2007
A Mac software company, Panic, just released their newest product: Coda. I am thoroughly impressed by the extreme attention to detail and quality paid by those developers on both the website and the product itself — it’s nothing short of a work of art.
That said, I don’t think I’d use Coda myself because I already [...]
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