Backyard Office by Deeds Design : Earlier today a former colleague tweeted he’s beginning the build for a backyard office. I’ve contemplated doing the same before, and I finally have a home with a enough yard to make it a possibility. Coincidentally, I just stumbled on the above-linked slideshow showing the backyard office of architect Sarah Deeds. It’s absolutely stunning. I’m convinced to give a serious look at building my own. … Read the rest here
Backyard Office by Deeds Design : Earlier today a former colleague tweeted he’s beginning the build for a backyard office. I’ve contemplated doing the same before, and I finally have a home with a enough yard to make it a possibility. Coincidentally, I just stumbled on the above-linked slideshow showing the backyard office of architect Sarah Deeds. It’s absolutely stunning. … Read the rest here
In the reset revision draft I posted Monday , I got tripped up by some last-minute changes and I’m going to think out loud (so to speak, as it were) about possible solutions. The problem is that the presence of a in the first rule means that focus outlines on hyperlinks are removed. Thus in commenting out the :focus rule I restored default focus styles to form elements, but not hyperlinks. This wasn’t a problem up until roughly a day before I published, but last-minute tinkering brought it back. I’d say that’ll teach me not to tinker, but I hate to lie. I’ve come up with the following solutions. … Read the rest here
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An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. : Thomas Hawk: In your letter to your employees you say, it
Let’s face it, testing multiple browsers on multiple systems isn’t very practical. But it’s still a fact of life for the web developer. What I’m about to show you is how I manage testing in multiple browser versions. About three years ago, I used to do all of my development on a Windows laptop. I had an old Mac G3 tower, an Ubuntu server, and a Windows 2000 server… Read the rest here
I ran into this rather odd rendering in Firefox 3.6. I had a fieldset with content following it that was nested inside a list item. <ul> <li><fieldset> … </fieldset> <p>Additional information.</p> <li> </ul> The odd behaviour became quickly evident when my list bullet would not line up next to the fieldset, as expected. Instead, it lined up with the content that appeared immediately after the fieldset. I haven’t found an easy fix for this except to remove the fieldset entirely. … Read the rest here
24 ways: An Introduction to CSS 3-D Transforms : Really thorough and fairly technical. If you
I just got my first Mac with a solid state drive. If you’ve heard anything about SSD performance, you won’t be surprised to hear that it’s fast. How fast? Well, I filmed a video. … Read the rest here
Spacelog : This is fascinating. Original NASA transcripts from early space exploration. The transcript formatting reads like blog comments or a Twitter conversation. Every comment has a permanent URI
After using the Boxee Box for a few days, I had the itch to restore it to the factory version of 0.9 and see how that performed. The process was surprisingly easy, with the exception of issues connecting to my N wifi network. It didn’t like either a 2.5ghz connection, or a 5ghz, and would only connect to G. Once past that, I got to experience what the Boxee Box could’ve been. The interface looked fantastic, my local content was more important again, music and photos were back in the main menu and there were all the apps that were missing. Online videos played full screen, meaning the BBC iPlayer was usable again. … Read the rest here
Despeinada : A lovely new typeface by Ricardo Rousselot. Despeinada means
CSS3 for Web Designers is the latest release from A Book Apart which also recently released HTML5 for Web Designers . Having received a copy of this lightweight book in electronic format, I promptly loaded it onto my iPad in preparation for a flight. The book proved to be so brief and easy-to-read, in fact, that I was through its 130 pages before I even boarded my plane. Therefore, I took some time on my flight to write up my thoughts on said book. … Read the rest here
Jason Santa Maria Go to the source
We’re back at it with a brand new A Book Apart from web design mastermind, Dan Cederholm: CSS3 for Web Designers . What’s more, no waiting for pre-orders this time around, you can grab the book right now , in both paperback or ebook formats. The books are just finishing up at the printer and should ship out on Monday, the ebooks are available this very moment. What’s it about? CSS3 opens up many possibilities we’ve had to bend over backwards to achieve in the past… Read the rest here
A couple of months ago I traveled to Reykjavik as a guest of Iceland Air to speak at a web design conference they were sponsoring. My talk was all about delivering exceptional customer service so it’s ironic that I received some of the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced at the hands of their UK team. It all started when my bags got lost of the return journey. Loosing bags seems an unavoidable part of modern air travel and I’d had lost bags successfully returned in the past so wasn’t that worried. I simply logged the loss at Heathrow and two days later my bag was found and delivered to me. However upon receipt of the bag I noticed that it was lighter and decidedly less bulky that I remembered… Read the rest here
A brief followup to “ A Question of Degree “: I received the following message from the person who first asked the question: I just spent the last hour or so reading through the comments and, let me tell you, I can’t express how much they helped me! It is now clearly obvious to me that finishing my CS degree is the way to go. A CS degree can make me a better web developer by teaching me about algorithm design and analysis, performance issues, and just how to think like an engineer. Also, since the web changes constantly, a degree will help me embrace those changes. It will always be there for me to fall back on if the web industry doesn’t work out for me. Thank you to everyone who contributed to the discussion, either in the comments here or elsewhere on the net. You made a positive difference in this world… Read the rest here
The Boxee Box launch party happened in NYC last night, and with it, was the first look at the Boxee 1.0 software. When Boxee first appeared in alpha, this is what it looked like: It was OK, but I wasn’t a big fan of its aesthetics. However, early this year they unveiled the Boxee Beta interface, with IA work by Whitney Hess . I was won over. It had warmth, atmosphere and character. The main navigation icons were really well done, and gone was the quirky typeface that didn’t have big screen impact. … Read the rest here
I’m not usually the type of person to talk about who I follow or why I follow someone on a social network. And yet, here I am writing a blog post about it. Okay then… I’ve always liked Twitter . I like it’s simplicity. I also like that there’s the ability to do a one-way association by following somebody without requiring a reciprocal association… Read the rest here
My thoughts regarding Instagram as Flickr
