Shell scripts, JavaScript pedantry, CSS fixations, Java debugging, and the rest of the polyglotism.
Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS Yahoo!’s CSS-based grid system for flexible, componentized layouts… (tags: Yahoo webdesign webdev reference essay framework CSS) VoodooPad online documentation (tags: VoodooPad reference) Locomotive (tags: OSX Ruby Rails dev freeware software todo)
Marmaduke Explained Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke; e.g., “Marmaduke is being cock-blocked.” (tags: comic humor parody blog) 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards via A List Apart: an article on how to think like a CSS web developer and use CSS and standards (“for real this time”) (tags: CSS html todo webdev […]
How to make a Life Poster via The Mike Matas Blog (tags: iPhoto hack blog photography tutorial) Stoplight Lifehacker Download of the Day: an OS X app behavior customizer (tags: Apple Mac OSX software todo hack freeware) XML editor – XML Editor & XSLT Debugger (tags: java xml software xslt)
yFiles – Java Graph Layout and Visualization Library (tags: todo java graphics graph editor visualization dev)
fleep.com Awesome deep house mixes from a DJ in Japan… (tags: blog music mp3 house) The Magical Number Seven A good essay (article?) that talks about human attention spans and puts it into a scientific context; understanding this goes a long way for understanding usability principles – – especially when it comes to things like […]
From the “Wow, why didn’t I think of that?” department: The Tao of Mac explains “Yaki” (the “anti-wiki”): …the content store is a folder tree. Each Wiki node is represented my a folder containing a plain UTF-8 text file, with metadata in a pseudo-RFC:2822 format: […] I chose this approach because the file format is […]
Why I simultaneously love and hate web developers (via Musings from Mars » All The Lovely Browsers!): Regardless of why it’s favored, developers need to understand that when they fail to include Safari in their compatibility testing, they are basically thumbing their nose at Mac users. In my world, that’s not just a nasty thing […]
Continuing with the Xcode/Cocoa/Objective-C lessons. Tough being your own teacher. Generously free mini-book PDFs help though. Successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2. (Did you notice? Me neither.) A. finished an experiment today. And with awesome results apparently. She’s probably calling you right now to tell you all about it. currently playing: Roots Manuva “Fever” > Sneaker […]
In an effort to familiarize myself with Xcode, I’ve concocted a couple of projects upon which to cut my teeth. Currently I’m delving into it by way of an AppleScript droplet micro-app that I’m calling “DropSync” for now. The general principle is to drop files onto it and have it sync them to a remote […]
aListApart with a timely article on using forms sensibly OnGoing on the evils(?) of <!DOCTYPE> mark-up