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I’ve been doing a fair bit of yakking lately, all recorded for posterity. First off, I had a chat with Tim from Design Critique on Ajax design considerations , mostly recapping what I talked about UI13 last year. Jeremy Keith on Ajax design considerations on Huffduffer After that, I had a natter with Ross from Web Axe , this time focusing on practical web accessibility . Web Axe Episode 75: Jeremy Keith interview, Google Wave on Huffduffer Then Andy , Rich and I paid a visit to the Boagworld crew out in the back of beyond where we had a free-for-all five-way chat about Clearleft and Headscape . … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

During the short time that I was at dConstruct , I nipped out with Paul and Marcus to record a quick interview about HTML5. That interview has now been published in the latest episode of Boagworld , complete with transcript. Just to show how fast HTML5 can move, on the very day that we were chatting about the content model of the footer element , the spec was duly updated. Boagworld 184: html5 on Huffduffer Speaking of podcasting and dConstruct… Thanks to always excellent Drew , the audio recordings from the day are starting to roll in. You can keep an eye on the podcast page or simply subscribe to the podcast to get all the aural goodness. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

During the short time that I was at dConstruct , I nipped out with Paul and Marcus to record a quick interview about HTML5. That interview has now been published in the latest episode of Boagworld , complete with transcript. Just to show how fast HTML5 can move, on the very day that we were chatting about the content model of the footer element , the spec was duly updated. Boagworld 184: html5 on Huffduffer Speaking of podcasting and dConstruct… Thanks to always excellent Drew , the audio recordings from the day are starting to roll in. You can keep an eye on the podcast page or simply subscribe to the podcast to get all the aural goodness. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

So, remember when I posted all those episodes of Simon Singh

Adactio Go to the source

So, remember when I posted all those episodes of Simon Singh

Adactio Go to the source

The newest episode of Radiolab has the highlights from one of their occasional live events. This one revolves around the deliberately contentious premise of television vs. radio. AV Smackdown

Clagnut Go to the source

This time last week I was on a United Airlines flight returning from Orange County, where m’learned colleague James Box and I were presenting at the UIE Web App Summit . We ran a workshop on Wireframing and Prototyping for Highly Interactive Web Apps in which we covered the various joys of Post-its, paper and jQuery, and presented on Using Interactive Prototyping for a Richer Web Experience in which we extolled the virtues of HTML as a design tool. On the flight home we watched Frost/Nixon , a dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. As the credits rolled, we looked at each other and unanimously claimed the film to be ‘bloody brilliant’. Particularly marvellous were the superb portrayals of the protaganists by Michael Sheen and Frank Langella respectively. I heartily recommend it. … Read the rest here

Clagnut Go to the source

Back in January I was part of a double bill with Jon Tan , entitled Skillswap goes typographic . It went down really well so I thought I’d better tie it all together here. My talk was on “Facing up to Fonts” the blurb for which went as follows: Browser support for the typographical aspects of CSS is gradually increasing. Things are on the up. Richard will be trouncing the myth of web-safe fonts, demonstrating how to go beyond bold, detailing the technicalities of font embedding and exploring the commercial and ethical minefield therein. The introduction of font embedding in particular is a long-awaited step in the right direction… Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Last Friday I played in Coudal Partner’s Layer Tennis in a east coast vs west coast brawl with Derek Powazek , a friend and one of my favorite web designers. I thought it might be fun to give some background on the match. The view from my desk during the match. For those uninitiated with Layer Tennis, the premise is simple: two players trade a Photoshop document back and forth, each player has 15 minutes to iterate on the previous “volley” however they see fit. The matches are played live on Friday afternoons, and people follow along and comment via Twitter… Read the rest here

Jason Santa Maria Go to the source

Last Friday I played in Coudal Partner’s Layer Tennis in a east coast vs west coast brawl with Derek Powazek , a friend and one of my favorite web designers. I thought it might be fun to give some background on the match. The view from my desk during the match. For those uninitiated with Layer Tennis, the premise is simple: two players trade a Photoshop document back and forth, each player has 15 minutes to iterate on the previous “volley” however they see fit. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Over five years ago, I put together a really simple tool that let you specify a foreground colour and a background colour. The tool would spit out whether it met the W3C guidelines for acceptable levels of contrast as part of AERT . A year later, I added convenient sliders for adjusting the red, green and blue (RGB) values. I decided to take a moment to update the tool with a couple new features. WCAG 2.0 The first of these is having the tool be able to calculate the contrast ratio as defined within WCAG 2.0 . The guidelines appear to be less strict than what was defined previously… Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Over five years ago, I put together a really simple tool that let you specify a foreground colour and a background colour. The tool would spit out whether it met the W3C guidelines for acceptable levels of contrast as part of AERT . A year later, I added convenient sliders for adjusting the red, green and blue (RGB) values. I decided to take a moment to update the tool with a couple new features. WCAG 2.0 The first of these is having the tool be able to calculate the contrast ratio as defined within WCAG 2.0 … Read the rest here

SimpleBits Go to the source

I’ve always loved the constraint of a 4-track cassette recorder. So when I first came across FourTrack , a simple recording app for the iPhone, I figured I’d give it a whirl. I grabbed my trusty ukulele and laid down a little tune I often play to the kids. The audio records right from the iPhone’s built-in mic. The quality is impressive. Then I grabbed my three year old son Jack’s toy percussion kit, and banged along to the uke track… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

One of the things that I’ve found mind-bendingly annoying about Leopard (besides its complete refusal to allow classic window management) is the “this file was downloaded from the internet, are you sure you want to open it?” dialog box. Yes, damn it: I just downloaded the file with the express intent of opening it. Stop bothering me. Keep it up and I might mistake you for PC . What’s even worse is that the dialog requires mouse input to get past. It would be just within the limits of acceptability if the dialog buttons responded to keyboard input; if I could hit command-O or something to invoke “Open”, then I’d probably keep the safeguard in place, because I could just charge past it with a quick twitch of the fingers. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

That’s right folks. It’s time for another screencast! This time, I thought it’d be nice to cover a little bit of Firebug. I’ve actually been meaning to put together a few screencasts on Firebug. If you like this one, definitely let me know and I’ll be sure to put some more together. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

That’s right folks. It’s time for another screencast! This time, I thought it’d be nice to cover a little bit of Firebug. I’ve actually been meaning to put together a few screencasts on Firebug. If you like this one, definitely let me know and I’ll be sure to put some more together. In this screencast, I take a quick look at how to use breakpoints in Firebug to help in your debugging endeavours. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

View from on stage as I’m preparing to speak at An Event Apart New Orleans 2008. I’ll be straight up with you: I don’t profess to be an expert speaker. I’ve had my share of presentations that have been total flops, along with some very successful ones. But if anything, I’ve done quite a bit of speaking over the past four years (see the summary on my LinkedIn public profile ), and therefore I’ve learned a few things about speaking along the way. Below are 20 things I’ve learned. Though this list is geared towards one-hour sessions rather than panels and workshops, some of the same principles apply… Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Four months after the curtain went down on dConstruct 2008 , the final episode of the podcast of the conference has just been published. It’s the audio recording of my talk The System Of The World . I’m very happy indeed with how the talk turned out: dense and pretentious …but in a good way, I hope. It’s certainly my favourite from the presentations I have hitherto delivered. Feel free to: listen to the recording of The System Of The World , read the hypertext document The System Of The World or look through the slides on Slideshare … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Four months after the curtain went down on dConstruct 2008 , the final episode of the podcast of the conference has just been published. It’s the audio recording of my talk The System Of The World . I’m very happy indeed with how the talk turned out: dense and pretentious …but in a good way, I hope. It’s certainly my favourite from the presentations I have hitherto delivered. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

So, with my scrapbooking system sorted, my thoughts now turn once more to my unsolved Media Centre thingy. To catch up: I’ve given up on the Mac Mini solution after it delivered nothing but a black screen for the umpteenth time. I’ve had various problems with it, all software related and fixable, but I was getting a bit fed up with the amount of administration it required. I spent more time in screen sharing keeping it ticking over than I did using the remote. EyeTV in particular threw up problems, from bizarre errors to app updates that caused it to crash at launch. … Read the rest here