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Using CSS transitions can be quite fun. But what’s not fun is when you want to transition something that needs to use display:none or visibility:hidden (or really, any non-transitionable property). For example, let’s say you have a dialog. When the user clicks on the close button, you want the dialog to fade out — a simple transition from opacity:1 to opacity:0 . The problem is that the element is still there, even though you can’t see it… Read the rest here

Things I’ve learnt about cycling in my first year…

2011 was the year that cycling replaced the “search for the right media centre” as the main blog topic at The Hickensian. I’ve been pretty much starting from scratch in terms of knowledge, and gleaning information from all sorts of sources. Here are just some of things I’ve learnt this year: There are Rules . 87 of them in fact. … Read the rest here

Reflective

It is once again that time of year where I reflect on the year that has passed and contemplate the year the come. Professionally On a professional level, this has been a fantastic year but still not without its ups and downs. This year capped my second and final year with Yahoo!. Yahoo! has been a great experience for me and exposed me to an environment that I hadn’t worked in before. I was able to work with large teams on a large scale across multiple products. To know that I had a big part to play in the success of those projects is very rewarding. … Read the rest here

Retreat 4 Geeks 2012

Eric Meyer Go to the source

As the year draws to a close, I find myself casting an eye back on the past twelve months. There are two events that stand out for me: Mobilewood —the get-together in the woods of Tennessee that led to the Future Friendly movement and Hackfarm —the Clearleft outing to Herefordshire that resulted in Map Tales . I learned a lot at both events. I think there’s enormous benefit in getting together with your peers for days of intense geekery—it’s quite the learning experience. Looking ahead to next year, there’s one more such event on the horizon. Aaron started up Retreats 4 Geeks last year and kicked it off with an outstanding week in the woods with Eric . … Read the rest here

The Survey, 2011

Back on Tuesday, A List Apart opened the 2011 edition of The Survey for People Who Make Web Sites , the fifth annual effort to learn more about the people who work in the web industry. If you haven’t taken it yet, please do so! It should take about ten minutes I’m proud to have been a part of this effort since its inaugural launch back in 2007. It’s a major undertaking, mostly in analyzing the data and turning that into a detailed report, but it’s more than worth the time and effort. Before the Survey, we really didn’t know very much about who we were as a field of practice, and without it we wouldn’t have as clear a picture of who we are today. There have been growing pains, of course, chief among them UCCASS , the survey software we’ve been using since the outset. Its limitations and lack of updates finally pushed us to find another platform, and we chose to move over to Polldaddy . … Read the rest here

Speaking, not hacking

I spent last week in Belfast for the Build conference , so I did. The fun kicked off with a workshop on responsive enhancement which was a lot of fun. Toby has written a report of the day outlining all of the elements that came together for a successful workshop. The day of the conference itself was filled with inspiring, uplifting talks full of positive energy …except for mine. My talk— All Our Yesterdays —had an underlying sense of anger, especially when I spoke about the destruction of Geocities. If you heard the talk and you’d like to explore some of the resources I mentioned, here’s a grab-bag of links: Stock and Flow by Robin Sloan. … Read the rest here

Thinking about CSS Architecture

With all my work at Yahoo!, I’d been thinking more and more about CSS architecture. I really sat down and took the time to analyze my process. What’s the most flexible but straightforward way to do it? How does this fit in with the team process and how does this work in comparison to how other people are doing it? I started making notes and eventually started writing up my thoughts… Read the rest here

Improving Reality

Much as I enjoyed myself in Tennessee , it was shame to miss some of the Brighton Digital Festival events that were going on at the same time. I missed Barcamp and Flash On The Beach . But since getting back I’ve been making up for lost time, soaking up the geek comedy at The Caroline of Brunswick last Wednesday with Robin Ince and Helen Keen . I also went along to the Improving Reality conference on Friday, which turned out to be an excellent event. The title was deliberately contentious, inviting a Slavin -shaped spectre to loom over the proceedings after he closed dConstruct with his excellent talk, Reality is Plenty wherein he placed his boot on the head of Augmented Reality, carefully pointed his rhetorical gun at its temple and repeatedly pulled the trigger. But AR was just one of the items on the menu at Improving Reality… Read the rest here

Music From a Dry Cleaner

Andy Budd Go to the source

Music From a Dry Cleaner : Diego Stocco: Almost everyday, on my way to a local bakery, I walk in front of a dry cleaners. When they have the front door open, I hear a lot of interesting sounds coming from their work equipment. Eventually, the different mechanical and steam sounds sparked something in my mind, so one day I asked the owners if I could record a piece of music by using their machines as musical instruments. The closing line in the video is just perfect. … Read the rest here

The X-factorisation of the Web

Over the last few years I’ve noticed a strange and disturbing trend amongst web practitioners. There was a time—not so long ago—when passionate individuals would blog about their work for no other reason than to share their discoveries. The more prolific of these individuals built up an online reputation and became seen as experts. Some of the more articulate ones were asked to write books or present their thoughts at conferences, and received a modicum of success. After years of sharing their knowledge freely, some were able to capitalise on their notoriety by securing jobs at interesting companies or setting up small agencies. A few even managed to make a living off publishing books and speaking at conferences, although how they managed this is anybodies guess… Read the rest here

600,000 for charity: water

We’ve just unveiled this parallaxified mini-site as part of Authentic Jobs’ 6th birthday celebration. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Michael Botsko on the site. I had my hands on the design, while he wrangled the markup. There are a few imperfect details remaining to be polished, but overall I’m really pleased with the end result. Lest I focus unduly on the design, allow me to encourage you to take note of the site’s message: I need your help… Read the rest here

Update

The Brighton Digital Festival kicked off with a one-two punch of geek conferences: dConstruct and Update . Update was a labour of love from Aral who worked hard to put together an eclectic, slick event. It was mostly aimed at iOS developers but there was a lot of other stuff in there too, including a range of musical performances. Some speakers, like Matt Gemmell and Sarah , talked specifically about iOS design and development while others, like Cennydd , spoke of broader issues. In my opinion the most important talk of the day was delivered by Anna who laid bare the state of Britain’s education system—and by extension, Britain’s future… Read the rest here

Makers in Brighton

While I was compering dConstruct , I interspersed the between-talk banter with information about some of the events taking place under the banner of the Brighton Digital Festival . It’s a busy month, to put it mildly. The day after dConstruct, Brighton played host to a Mini Maker Faire in the foyer of the Brighton Dome. I went along in the morning to check it out and MY HEAD ASPLODE! It was splendid. So much creativity, so much fun and so many lovingly-crafted gadgets, all under one roof. It was immensely popular too… Read the rest here

charity: water Birthday Event

charity: water Birthday Event : Though I wasn’t able to live blog/tweet as much as I hoped, yesterday’s visit to charity: water’s offices for their birthday celebration was memorable nonetheless. Here’s a recap of the day in moving pictures shot by charity: water. … Read the rest here

dConstruction of the Fables

dConstruct is over for another year. It was, once again, a day packed full of far-reaching ideas and thought-provoking presentations. Even if you didn’t necessarily agree with everything a speaker had to say, you certainly got plenty of food for thought. I was playing compere for the day, which was an absolute pleasure. I thoroughly enjoyed every talk, though some of them polarised the audience. It was interesting to see some people rate a talk as their favourite—Don Norman’s or Kelly’s, for example—only to have the very same talks dismissed by other people… Read the rest here

HOW Interview with Yours Truly

HOW Interview with Yours Truly : Bryn Mooth interviews me leading up to this November’s HOW Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco. Speaking of, the early bird registration ends this Thursday, September 1. Save an additional $50 on top of that with discount code CAMERON. Hope to see you in San Fran. … Read the rest here

IE8 bug with max-width and overflow

Just a quick documentation of this interesting bug. This only happens in Internet Explorer 8 (but not 7 or 9), which was interesting. If you have an element with long text but it has white-space:nowrap to prevent text wrapping with a max-width and overflow:hidden to clip the overflowed text, then a floated container (which should collapse to the width of the content) will collapse to the width of the text as if it was not set to be clipped. The use of text-overflow:ellipsis has no effect on this. … Read the rest here

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