Why I Sold Zappos
Why I Sold Zappos : Tony Hsieh, recalling nearly a decade of financial ups and downs and the meeting with Jeff Bezos that eventually led to Amazon
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“I turned off comments in the last redesign of powazek.com because I needed a place online that was just for me. With comments on, when I sat down to write, I
Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 Phone Call
Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 Phone Call :
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I’ll be doing a 5 minute microslot on CSS filters at the next Oxford Geek Night on July 21st. CSS filters is the practice of linking to your stylesheets in different ways in order to control how different browsers and their versions get your CSS . It’s something I get quite a lot of questions about when people look at my source code, so I thought I’d explain it via a presentation! The OGN microslot is the ideal format for it. If you live nearish to Oxford, and haven’t been to Geek Night yet, do come and see what you’re missing. It’s a free event (sponsored by local gents/superstars Torchbox ) in the Jericho Tavern in Oxford… Read the rest here
Londoning
The @media conference has been a constant star in the UK web standards community since 2005. This year, the baton was smoothly passed to those awesome aussies, John and Maxine of Web Directions, creating the hybridly-titled Web Directions @media that took place in London last week. Before the conference proper, there were two days of workshops in the Hogwartsian location of the superbly-named Goodenough College . I spent a day on Getting semantic with microformats and HTML5 . I think it went pretty well. I came to the conclusion that it’s easier to explain everything about microformats than to explain the new outline algorithm in HTML5. … Read the rest here
The Evolution of the World Cup Ball
The Evolution of the World Cup Ball : Photographs by Jens Heilmann. Click each to enlarge. What may be really interesting to some of us is that these photographs were taken with a vintage-style, large-format analog camera. Fast-forward to 3:40 in this video to see it in action. … Read the rest here
The Evolution of the World Cup Ball
The Evolution of the World Cup Ball : Photographs by Jens Heilmann. Click each to enlarge. What may be really interesting to some of us is that these photographs were taken with a vintage-style, large-format analog camera. Fast-forward to 3:40 in this video to see it in action. … Read the rest here
Principles of Icon
I’ve never over-run on a talk. Ever. Usually I embarrasingly finish around 10 mins early, leaving plenty of time for questions. Until last week at Future of Web Design that is. When it came down to the last 5 minutes, I realised I had a lot more to go, and had to really hurry the last couple of sections. Thankfully the feedback so far has been positive, but I promise this will be (probably) be the last time I talk on this subject. … Read the rest here
Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration
Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration : Commercial agreements with big names like FontShop , Veer , and now an open-source effort with Google. Jeffrey Veen on the latest news: We
Handcrafted CSS Nashville: The Rebound Contest
With early bird pricing for Handcrafted CSS Nashville (a full-day workshop presented by myself and Mr. Ethan Marcotte ) winding down, we thought we’d run a little contest to giveaway two free tickets to the event on June 21st and other prizes. Ethan has all the details on how to enter : a Dribbble playoff of the beloved Baskerville italic ampersand. You don’t need to be a Dribbble member to enter! In fact, we’ll be giving away two Dribbble invitations as part of the contest. Hit us with your best shot, and hope to see you in Nashville next month ! … Read the rest here
Announcing A Book Apart
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
I’m very pleased to present A Book Apart , a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman , Mandy Brown , and myself. Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers , by the indomitable Jeremy Keith . If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one. I’ve read it three times and love how approachable it is. You can read more from Jeffrey about how we chose our first title , or from Mandy on how A Book Apart works as a publisher . … Read the rest here
Seattle Memories
It’s been a week since I got back from An Event Apart Seattle 2010 , and I’m still aglow about it. I know it’s something a cliché for conference organizers to say “it was the best show we ever done did!” but damn . It really was. That’s down to the speakers, of course. … Read the rest here
Turning Web Video On Its Head
Here’s some fun. (For a sufficiently nerdy definition of “fun”.) Launch Safari 4 or Chrome 4. Drag Videotate to the bookmarks bar. Go opt into the YouTube HTML5 beta . Find your favorite YouTube video. … Read the rest here
Mobile Web or Objective-C?
Mobile Web or Objective-C? : Peter-Paul Koch, in response to my post yesterday: As readers of this blog know I
Well that went
As I’ve said before, the quality of the acting in new Doctor Who has often gone some way to disguise the lack of a decent story. In particular, David Tennant’s swansong “The End of Time” was a big confused mess of abandoned plots and ‘reset buttons’, but it shone whenever there was one to one dialogue. It wasn’t a satisfactory end to his reign by any means. It’s not as if Russell T Davies can’t write good Who stories – ‘Gridlock’ and ‘Midnight’ show us he jolly well can – he justs gets a bit overexcited when it’s finale time. It’s like a Royal Variety Performance, Who style… Read the rest here
Screencasting: Lessons Learned
Handcrafted CSS Nashville
I’m pleased to announce Ethan and I are bringing the Handcrafted CSS workshop to Nashville ! We’ll reprise of the one-day course we organized last September here in Salem, Massachusetts and again last November in London with Carsonified . As always, each attendee will get a copy of the book ( Handcrafted CSS: Video Edition including the DVD ) and we’ll spend the day walking through much of its content and more. This event was a great success in New England and Old England, and we’re thrilled to bring it south, to Tennessee. So join us on June 21st at the historic Hermitage Hotel right smack in downtown Nashville (steps away from the famed Ryman Auditorium and other sights). For more info on the event and to book a place (there’s a max of 100 spots), visit the Handcrafted CSS Workshop site . … Read the rest here
Not Supported
Leave it to PPK to come out with a bold statement like, " CSS vendor prefixes considered harmful ". Moreso, It’s time to abolish all vendor prefixes. They’ve become solutions for which there is no problem, and they are actively harming web standards. The problem is that they are necessary. Look at Safari’s implementation of border-radius compared to the rest. I still can’t remember if it’s border-radius-topleft or border-top-left-radius . … Read the rest here
SXSWi: Surprisingly Good
Tumblr Migration and Malware Update
cameronmoll.com was hacked pretty severely sometime (or multiple times) in the last few weeks. Because of this, many of you have seen malware warnings when visiting this site recently. I apologize. All of this put into motion a series of events, many of which had already been planned for months