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Hicksdesign Go to the source

There’s something warm and fuzzy about seeing The Rissington Podcast available via the iTunes store on iPhone and Touch. What’s more, the show isn’t dead either – we’ve had to re-record the last show 3 times before we got the sound quality right, but we now have an episode 18 in the bag, ready to edit. Give us another week and we should have a new show for you, answering questions from as far back as June! Gulp! John and I were also interviewed by BBC Radio 5 last week, for ‘Pods and Blogs’, which goes out at the ‘Radio Quiet’ time of 2:30am. You can hear the slightly cringey, result here . … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

It was such a long time ago that I spoke at Geek in the Park on the subject of “Pixel Pushing”, and I’m finally getting around to posting the resources now! Tardy. If anyone still wants it, the talk is available in the following formats: Slides in PDF format (8.5mb). The audio of the talk is available on the official site A HTML Transcript by CastingWords (sponsored by Opera ;o) ). Reading back the original transcript was quite painful, as it highlighted how many times I say “so…” and (laughs) amongst other waffle. It’s all good self-critical feedback for future talks though. All links mentioned are on delicious . … Read the rest here

SimpleBits Go to the source

I returned from Tokyo on Monday. I gave a talk at the Web Directions East conference. I’ve never had a simultaneous translation of a presentation before. I hope it went OK. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Huffduffer is written in HTML5 . For the most part, this is no different to writing in any other flavour of HTML, just with a simpler DOCTYPE . For the time being, I’m not using any of the new structural elements like section , article or footer . I am, however, making use of the audio element. Browsers that don’t understand this element—that would be most of them—aren’t left with nothing. … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

A while back, I woke up one morning thinking, John Resig’s got some great CSS3 support in jQuery but it’s all forced into JS statements. I should ask him if he could set things up like Dean Edwards ‘ IE7 script so that the JS scans the author’s CSS, finds the advanced selectors, does any necessary backend juggling, and makes CSS3 selector support Transparently Just Work. And then he could put that back into jQuery. And then, after breakfast, I fired up my feed reader and saw Simon Willison ’s link to John Resig’s nascent Sizzle project. I swear to Ged this is how it happened. Personally, I can’t wait for Sizzle to be finished, because I’m absolutely going to use it and recommend its use far and wide. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Back in April, I wrote: I’ve been thinking about maybe putting together a podcast — just an RSS feed — that points to interesting inspirational talks, sort of like Jon’s Found Sounds podcasts but for spoken word instead of music. Well, as soon as I started trying to do that I discovered that, contrary to what Tim Bray says , creating an RSS feed by hand is a pain in the ass. So I decided that I would automate the task of creating an RSS feed complete with enclosures . Then I realised that if this was going to be useful to me, it might well be useful to other people looking to create podcasts of found sounds. So I made a website: Huffduffer The term Huff-Duff derives from the abbreviation HF/DF. It refers to a technique, widely employed during World War II, to triangulate the position of radio transmissions. … Read the rest here