December 2010
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Mark Dotto: How I Use Coda →
A great overview of how he uses Coda - which is basically how I use it, although I created different shortcuts. I’ve been using Coda for over a year, I think, and I have yet to get tired of it like I usually do with software I work with daily.
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Finding a Use for Tumblr →
I love when people are condescending towards technology and services that they do not care to use. Twitter gets the brunt of this - “Ugh, I just don’t understand Twitter!” “Oh, like I want to read every time someone eats a sandwich or brushes their teeth!” It’s comical, but infuriating all at the same time.
Reading this Times article reminded me that Tumblr...
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Oh, this is just a "holla" at my web developer...
Ever have that one (or two, or twenty) design/dev project(s), freelance or in-house, that made you want to set yourself on fire and/or jump naked into a vat of freezing cold gas station coffee?
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Those Annoying Promotional CDs Cost AOL a Ton of... →
My family didn’t have a computer until Christmas of 2000, during my sophomore year of high school. We got dial-up and AOL because we had so many of those “annoying promotional” discs around. My first screenname was Booyah5678 and my password was Science1 - both created by my stepmother’s mentally numb brother.
We were only allowed a half hour of computer use a day, if...
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WatchI took this from the train, today, as the sun was setting. Next time someone tells you New Jersey is all ugly, tell them to go screw.
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MobileRSS HD 3.0 update rips off Reeder's iPad app... →
They must be smoking cat nip at Nibirutech, being a major RSS app developer and releasing a ripoff update like that. I mean, come on.
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How did we survive the Web without tabbed...
Me: Remember when we used to have zillions of separate browser windows open?
Him: Yeah, when I first saw tabs on Firefox, I pissed my jeans.
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Burroughs Corporation was a business and computing company that later became Unisys by way of merger. Unisys licensed it’s LZW algorithm, which is used in the encoding of the GIF format (amongst others), with the creator of GIF, Compuserve.
This was a controversial move, since it made the popular format commercial - requiring a fee if it were to be used for profitable purposes. This...
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Everybody’s doing it…web arts and crafts. →
I do have a quick response to one5oh’s mentioning the outplayed exclamation of “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” when it comes to Web arts and crafts. It’s definitely something that I read and hear developers say all the time - and almost always condescendingly. I don’t know if it’s because they don’t have the time to experiment themselves,...
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Using CSS border-image to make a neat wooden frame
CSS border images work in the most bizarrely beautiful way, with a single image being sliced into 9 pieces and used to surround our wonderful content with whatever we please (so long as we’re using compatible browsers-this worked for me on Firefox, Chrome and Safari on the Mac-but we can use regular borders as a fallback).
One thing I wanted to try out was making a wooden frame out of a “wood...
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The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee →
In a nutshell, Apache is separating themselves from the JCP after Oracle accepted the latest Java specification - a specification, mind you, that basically sets in stone Oracle’s intentions to make Java fully proprietary. It’s an eye opening move in the game of business and open technology.
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Delicious is shockingly on Yahoo's "Sunset" list. →
This is not the type of sunset you want to wake up at 5am to experience.
Update: Someone recommended Pinboard to me, and I think it’s great. You should get it soon, though - the price is $0.001 * the number of registered users, and this Delicious news has already shown a jump in the price today.
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Mac App Store Launching January 6th. →
nerdcast:
“The App Store revolutionized mobile apps,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”
Steve’s usage of the word “PC” really hammers home, I think, the type of user this Mac App Store is really for. Non-Mac owning iOS users.
I feel like...
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Making a head explode into confetti with CSS3 is...
I was couch-ridden these past few days with the worst cold ever (I can judge, because I once had Mono for 2 months longer than I was told I was supposed to). It left me with little motivation and focus to do real work-also it was the weekend-so I caught up with my RSS feeds, played around with this site’s layout & style, and experimented with CSS3 to see if I can get a head to explode...
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Jimmy Wales might have met his match in the...
I’m still rooting for my boy Wales, even though I turned off the Wale-ifying script (that got real annoying, real fast). Wales has a wider selection of banners, and Wikipedia’s usefulness to me (and most everyone) blows WikiLeaks’ out of the water. All of that black space in Assange’s banner is awkward and he has a very diabolical look to him. To be fair, though, Assange...
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"jQueery: The gayest Javascript library around." →
Seriously, Google search “jqueery” right now.
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“The information superhighway or infobahn was a popular term used through the...”
– LOL @ “infobahn,” everybody.
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Holler.
I can’t wait until my Tumblr RSS feed starts working again and floods my Twitter stream.
Update: It happened.
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MarsEdit update and Tumblr Photo Posts →
I use my WordPress install to upload photos and insert them in my non-“Photo” Tumblr posts. The latest update to MarsEdit foiled my process, though, by automatically turning posts into “Photo” types whenever I tried to insert an image into, for example, a “Text” post. I hope the update that fixes this comes as fast as developer Daniel’s response to my...
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Golden Ratios and Advent Calendars
I think that “Advent calendars” are a really bizarre phenomenon in the Web development world because of the fact that the field is totally irrelevant when it comes to Christmas. Many (not all) of the blogs are underwhelming and many (not all) people only go balls2thewall about them because it’s another place to spam the comments section with their portfolio site’s links,...
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Site development, growing pains and hateraidin' on...
Moving Baristanet to WordPress was my first dive into WordPress 3.0’s multisite feature, a full-speed nosedive at that. 3.0 had only been released in the middle of my development of the site, but from using the beta version I knew this necessary feature was coming. The night before the “big launch” I pulled the proverbial switch and added the multisite-enabling code to .htaccess...
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World AIDS Day - Hydeia Broadbent: 26, Living with...
Here is a great interview by CanIGetAManWithThat.com, of the beautiful Hydeia Broadbent (seriously, she’s cute as hell), who was diagnosed with AIDS when she was 3. It’s a topic that’s close to my heart, especially today on World AIDS Day.
HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease in women ages 15 to 44 worldwide, according to the The American Foundation for AIDS...