I’ve been reading Clay Shirky’s writing on social patterns in new media for a few years now, and I love this quote from this video (15 mins):
(Found at Lifehacker)
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Joel Spolsky has written a screed on what he sees as “the mother of all flamewars”. He’s right at least, in that there has already been a bit of froth over the flip-flopping “web standards support in IE 8” announcements …
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I found an odd bug in Rails today. Odd, in the sense that it's not so much broken, as working in a way that's different than one would expect.
In a controller, one uses respond_to to present the appropriate response, as determined by the requested mimetype …
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Prior to version 3 (now out of beta in Leopard), Safari was one of few mainstream browsers that didn’t do anything when the user clicked on a HTML input elements label text.
Most browsers treat a label-click as an element-click – that …
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Two great tastes that go great together…
Erm, I mean, ummm…
I’m working on another new web project, and I’ve discovered that my BrowserCam membership has expired. So, I created a new project at Fundable.
Fundable has …
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NPR has a fantastic story about Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corp, known online as utube.com. More than occasionally mistaken for YouTube.com.
Anyway, they are suing Google/YouTube for the costs associated with being a typo away from the phenomenon …
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It’s been a busy week, working on a fancy/complicated Web project. Here’s a smattering of things I’ve learned:
float clearingI have been using a variant of ALA’s Practical CSS Forms…
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I've been swearing like a foul-tempered pirate at IE a lot this week. This was one of the problems, something that seems to be a bug in the popular Prototype framework. Hopefully, my posting it here will save someone else much frustration.
So, I have …
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Five demos at DemoCamp last night...
James' DictaBrain demo had a great "elevator pitch" quality to it: Ever call your answering machine to leave yourself a message, just to get your thoughts out of your head? DictaBrain improves …
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Maybe you have to have been working with Ruby for awhile, maybe not, but I have to share:
My new blob
I am at the moment setting up my Unbuntu conputer for Rails - the Rubby language W.W.W. framewok for making W.W.W. sites. Rubby is a great conputer …
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