Last night I presented a 5 minute microslot on CSS Filters – excluding older versions of IE from seeing your CSS , and feeding extra styles to specific versions of IE and mobile browsers. The slides (with presenter notes) are now available to download from the new Speaking section. Comment on this … Read the rest here
Khoi Vinh Resigns as NYTimes.com Design Director : A good friend and long-time inspiration for me, Khoi is moving on: It wasn’t an easy decision. I’ve been at The New York Times for four and a half years now, four and a half years that will doubtless figure prominently in my life for years to come. There were some rough patches, as there are with any job, but on the whole it’s been the best job I’ve ever had…. In the short run, I’ll be doing lots of stuff on a smaller scale: personal projects that I’ve been tinkering with, a few public speaking appearances, a bit of writing (including finishing a book I started earlier this year), some short-term work for companies with whom I’m friendly, and more. … Read the rest here
Just before noon (Eastern U.S. time) today, An Event Apart Minneapolis sold its last available seat. That’s three events so far in 2010 and three sell-outs. If you were hoping to join us in Minneapolis but hadn’t registered yet, we’re sorry we won’t see you there! You can contact our Event Manager to get put on the waiting list, or you can join us for one of the remaining two shows of the year: Washington DC and San Diego . There are strong reasons to prefer either one. In Washington DC , we’ll have our second-ever A Day Apart , a full day of in-depth learning with Jeremy Keith and Ethan Marcotte taking on the topics of HTML5 and CSS3, respectively… Read the rest here
“In the End, We Are Our Choices. Build Yourself a Great Story.” : Jeff Bezos, speaking to Princeton’s Baccalaureate Class of 2010: I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice…. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices… Read the rest here
Like many others before me, I’ve moved the weblog portion of SimpleBits over here to Tumblr . I did this for many reasons. I like that there’s one f!@#$ing template. That’s it. I don’t miss comments… Read the rest here
All of a sudden, people have been asking me to yak about myself and stuff that I know (or at least think I know). These things tend to come in waves, and right now I’m surfing like a search engine’s crawlerbot. I don’t think that metaphor made any sense at all. Anyway, here’s what I’ve had to say so far: The Geek Talk: Eric Meyer — a brief e-mail interview I did a week or so back. Want to know my favorite color… Read the rest here
Star Wars ABC : Speaking of Flickr, this Flickr photoset is just fantastic. Kid-friendly illustrations by Michael Fleming of the alphabet using Star Wars characters. Michael’s entire photostream , for that matter, is likely to break your Favorite button. … Read the rest here
Bounce : The lightweight version of ZURB’s Notable app. Both allow you to capture websites and share feedback on them. Speaking of jobs (previous post), ZURB is seeking an Interaction Designer for its San Jose offices. Relocation assistance offered. Help create killer stuff just like this. … Read the rest here
So Anand Giridharadas has written a piece about the word so , tracing its ascendency as a sentence-opener to Silicon Valley: And “so” suggested a kind of thinking that appealed to problem-solving types: conversation as a logical, unidirectional process, proceeding much in the way of software code — if this, then that. This logical tinge to “so” has followed it out of software. Starting a sentence with “so” uses the whiff of logic to relay authority. Where “well” vacillates, “so” declaims. It declaims. … Read the rest here
Good vs. Great(er) Design : I’m not typically fond of publishing my slides without the additional context provided by audio or video from the presentation, as my slides aren’t meant to stand on their own. But I’ll do it anyway. This PDF contains slides from the updated version of my “Good vs. Great Design” presentation, given recently at LessConf and HOW Design Conference … Read the rest here
Sony Developing HD Camcorder with Interchangeable Lens : Speaking of solving problems, this concept could serve the average video enthusiast like myself rather well. I have a Canon 7D as well as a Canon HG10 . I still find myself lugging around the HG10 more than I thought I would, as it’s more portable than the 7D, has auto-focus, and less expensive to replace if lost or damaged when going places. So, this all means I sometimes carry two HD video cameras with me. Sony’s concept would allow me to carry just one and pop the lens on and off as needed. … Read the rest here
IE Mobile for Windows Phone 7 has decided to implement support for -webkit-text-size-adjust . They’ll also be adding their own duplicate vendor-specific prefix, -ms-text-size-adjust . That’s right, Microsoft will be adding support for another vendor’s non-standard implementation. Is this good or bad? … Read the rest here
Earlier this week I presented a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo titled “ HTML5 vs. Flash: Webpocalypse Now? ” which seemed to be pretty well received. That might be because I did my best to be unbiased about the situation both now and into the future, and also that the audience was very heavily weighted toward web stack practitioners. Seriously, out of 100-150 audience members, about six raised their hand when I asked who was developing with Flash… Read the rest here
I took part at an event held last week in the same building as the Clearleft office. It was called Debating the Digital Economy Act …except it wasn’t really a debate. Everyone was in agreement that the legislation is dreadful and that the way it has been rushed through parliament was a travesty. Nonetheless, it was still a valuable gathering. Instead of debating on the pros and cons of something that has no redeeming qualities, we tried to tackle the issue of what we can do about it. One of the best points of the night came from Pete who pointed out how important it was that we de-geekify the discussion lest we get brushed aside as pitchfork-wielding digerati… Read the rest here
I gave a presentation last week as part of the HTML5 Online Conference . There seems to be more and more of these virtual events in the style of Aral’s Head conference . This one involved desktop sharing and audio. Apart from some glitches with the Campfire backchannel, it all went pretty smoothly. … Read the rest here
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
In October 2009, the hashtag #lessconf began showing up repeatedly in my Twitter stream. The tweets were remarkably positive for something I’d heard nothing about previously. It turns out Steven Bristol and Allan Branch of Less Everything , the bright minds behind LessAccounting , were hosting a conference. Crush It! author Gary Vaynerchuk, Wufoo founder Kevin Hale and others spoke, and nearly 200 of you attended. This year’s LessConf 3010 resumes in Atlanta, Georgia, May 21–22… Read the rest here
“House” Finale to Feature Canon 5D Mark II Footage : Speaking of shooting stuff with a Canon 5D, the House finale was shot entirely with it. Episode airs May 17. (It’s been just over a year since commercial DSLR video cameras became available, and already “shot with Canon 5DmkII (or 7D)” is becoming commonplace; almost tiresome to repeat, in fact.) … Read the rest here
Let the games begin! Rich Thornett and I have been building Dribbble for what seems like years (oh wait, it has been that long). About a week ago, we quietly rolled back the curtain so the public could finally see what’s been happening in private beta. I’m pretty damned excited about this. Firstly, what is Dribbble? From the FAQ : Dribbble is show and tell for designers, developers and other creatives. … Read the rest here
The Mobile App Dev Rap Battle : Speaking of web vs. app… /via John Dilworth … Read the rest here