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” [...]
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Brad Fults
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 [...]
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Brad Fults
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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Brad Fults
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
I’ve joined the HTML Working Group at the W3C as an Invited Expert. I contributed to the WHAT WG and its Web Applications 1.0 (AKA “HTML 5”) spec, so hopefully I’ll be able to help out with the W3C’s renewed effort to update the HTML spec.
Going in, my fears lie mostly in bureaucracy or FUD [...]
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Brad Fults
Monday, March 12, 2007
I’ve set up my site feed to redirect to FeedBurner, so excuse any feed wonkiness if you please. We’ll see if it’s worth it.
That didn’t last long. FeedBurner apparently forgot how to get updates from my site, so fell apart. I wasn’t too hopeful anyway — I like to keep things in house and under [...]
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Brad Fults
Thursday, March 8, 2007
…if you call yourself a “web developer” you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing JavaScript. And if you don’t know JavaScript, you have absolutely no right to call yourself a “web developer”. [sic]James Bennett
I came across a post from James Bennett written last year that is absolutely brilliant. His points are right on the [...]
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Brad Fults
Sunday, February 25, 2007
What is your online banking password? I have 10 to 1 odds that say it sucks. You should probably do something about that. If you like money, that is.
Alex King wrote a couple of posts [1, 2] on using password hashing software to abstract your passwords out of your head, ostensibly increasing the level of security involved with the web sites you entrust your information to.
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Brad Fults
Sunday, February 25, 2007
I spent this afternoon implementing a new abstract overview of this site’s contents at the root. It’s an effort to break away from the essentially time-only perspective previously forced on the reader and instead to provide different perspectives for exploring content from all different times.
It may be worth noting that I haven’t tested it in [...]
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Brad Fults
Saturday, February 17, 2007
I’ve written previously [1, 2, 3] on clean URLs and URL design, but recently I stumbled across the Well Designed URLs Initiative.
I’ve joined the cause and am discussing the finer points of URL design on their mailing list. The founder, Mike Schinkel, has a good introduction/overview on his blog.
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Brad Fults
Friday, January 12, 2007
Usually when starting a new web site, a company will design the site for use in only one language. As companies grow, however, it is often prudent to internationalize the site and make it accessible in many languages. If the site is to become a large commercial success in countries around the world, this step [...]
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Brad Fults