Poe’s law states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. This article “Typekit: Remaking the Matrix” was linked around yesterday by people I respect. A lot of dumb things are published on the internet, and [...]
Mr. Stephen Fry helps out around the office by announcing to my colleagues which development environment is about to be updated.
Update to the update: I’ve made a slight modification to the HTC script to handle mouse-over / hover events better. By “better” I mean “it handles them now.” Thanks to the reader who suggested it. Some time ago I wrote up a hacky way to work around an annoying IE9 bug. The full write-up has [...]
Facebook is starting a Political Action Committee. (Facebook, and most major tech companies employ lobbyists – Facebook has been ramping up their presence in DC) Facebook is scaring Dave Winer – Dave Winer writes about ‘frictionless sharing’ – a feature of where sites who partner with Facebook can automatically post to your news feed (and [...]
Shawn Blanc saw the same study I did and found this great looking Mac app for scheduling those breaks.
Architecture firm – ai3 – has remodeled their office to look like the interior of a television space ship. Fancy. 2001 A Space Odyssey + Star Trek = ai3′s SuperGroup Office – Core77.
Cornell University Ergonomics study recommends that standing at your desk for computer work isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It’s a short article – here’s the nut: Stand up after every 20 minutes and move for 2 minutes. Sitting all day is obviously bad for you, but standing all day isn’t much better. [...]
The Boston Globe had redone their web site with a very nice, clean, reading-focused layout that takes advantage of modern CSS techniques. If you’re using a modern browser, try resizing your browser window to roughly the size of an iPhone. The layout will reformat based upon the screen size. This is a super neat-o method to [...]
I found this little trick today for tricking legacy IE into using RGBA colors – that is a color defined with transparency. It seems to work fairly well, with some caveats, specifically potential font weirdness. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/how-to-use-rgba-in-ie/
I’ve been doing a little work at home with jQuery and jQuery Mobile recently; at the jobby job we use ExtJS widgets and components. Comparing the two has me thinking. Each of these javascript libraries represents a different philosophical approach to developing web applications. jQuery Mobile is an extension of the jQuery library, and similarly [...]
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