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Well, before we’re a month removed from the conference, I thought I better sum up my thoughts on the matter. SXSW is all about networking, professional networking that is (not TCP-IP, Ethernet stuff…). The sessions were “okay” as some pointed out, though I think the reason for that was not so much the mediocrity of […]
People met – Steve Smith – Met briefly on the bus home from bowling. Reminisced a bit about tables/css layout and how terrible tables are. – Molly – Bryan Veloso – Jim Renaud – several members of the Facebook team – Jeremy Hubert – He’s not a designer, but has great looking business cards. Odd, […]
People met: – Matt Mullenweg – Ryan Carson (who is a true stud) – Eric Meyer (again) – Peter Paul Koch (who was interested in my last name) – Nathan Smith, Cody Lindley, Ryan Hargrave, Nathan Logan, Phil Coffman Things learned: – I’m severely uneducated – I need to sketch more – Grids are good, […]
I have been creating Web sites using Web Standards, Valid XHTML/CSS since Spring of 2003. Over 3 years now. It was a wonderful change in my career. I remember some early CSS reading where someone posited the following: Imagine a world where CSS had been implemented properly by browsers when it came out as a […]
As you may have noticed, I rebooted for May 1. It was about time I get an original design. (Many thanks to Green Marinee for serving me well for the last several months.). But as usual, I am trailing in behind the masters, I hope the gap is closing, but I fear it isn’t. My […]
7:51am – After a rather pleasant train ride through the suburbs into the city, I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in the downtown Marriot drinking a $4 hot milk drink (with a little caramel and espresso flavoring. (a.k.a., the Caramel “Macchiato†which isn’t actually a Macchiato and is barely caramel…). It was amazing to see […]
I just got back from spending the last several days in Shreveport, LA. I took a team of 13 volunteers from our church down to assist in whatever way we could. We ended up working at the Red Cross shelter at Hirsch Coliseum. You can read about the experience at my personal blog. My contribution […]
I work with several very good server admins who let me play on their hardware for very little money. I am very grateful for them and owe them both a debt of gratitude (as well as some money to help them upgrade their setups). Thanks Russ (that is: Wombat) and Mike (Konsole), and special props […]
Over the last 5.5 years as a Web developer, I have picked up several “axioms” that have made my job easier. Today I was reminded of two of them while helping a friend work through some layout issues. Josh Cramer’s First Rule Of Web Design: “It only does what you tell it to do.” Josh […]
I Have been developing Web pages for almost 5 years now (we are coming up on my anniversary). Today I did some looking back to how I got here. I spent the first three and a half years in relative naivet�, basically learning the rudimentary basics of HTML syntax (by using WYSIWYG programs); learning which […]
I had a strange day. I attended the University of Iowa Web Camp in Iowa City today. I went because Eric Meyer was giving the keynote: an updated version of The Standards Payoff (in brief: why you should design sites with Web Standards). I mean, Eric Meyer is THE CSS GURU. CSS is something I’ve […]
To: Spire USA Time: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:43 AM Hello, I received my new Nova 2004 bag on Tuesday May 18. It is a beautiful bag, looks like quality material, excellent positioning of pockets, perfect size, great suspension and padding; in short, I was very excited to start using it. Imagine my shock and […]