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Douglas Crockford — Javascript Pimp
I attend part 2 of the 5 part free Douglas Crockford Javascript lecture series at Yahoo! that can be found here. It was worth the appearance on a Friday night as part 2-3 focus on the “meat” of Javascript. Being a non-guru, this is most interesting to me as of the moment. I imagine that the “ninjas” as Crockford calls them will love the forward looking part 4 and 5 of the series…
+ More...Sneak Peek
Today, Westminster launched a website for one of our clients — SFCPA. Here is a sneak peek at it. Will follow up at Westminster where we will hopefully do a case-study of some sort.
+ More...The Future of the Interwebz
I attended another lecture at Google with the founders of Ajaxian, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith — who were to discuss the future of the web. Honestly, they basically talked about some mobile, HTML 5 and some programming frameworks basically. They feel the mobile web will be tremendously fascinating as it will have the most potential. They both liked where javascript was going with jQuery taking the lead and both worked together at Mozilla labs on Bespin which runs on the holy canvas tag. For those of you who don’t know, Bespin is a Mozilla Lab web code editor that exists and lives in the cloud…
+ More...Visiting the Google Mothership
I attended the latest GTUG (Google User Technology Group) event and was saddened to hear that the speaker for the night was injured in a bike accident. I hope he’s OK. This meeting was supposed to be about Google’s new real-time search features and mobile search (features debuted around December 7th of last year).
OOCSS Article
So I wrote the article and now I feel a lot better about OOCSS. I think the main thing to take away is more flexible HTML structures and how they co-exist with CSS components. Also, localization is somewhat evil.
+ More...The Truth About Object Oriented CSS
Nicole Sullivan is a champion of Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) and I was initially fascinated by the concept but the more I delve into here ideas and its practical applications — the less impressed I become.
+ More...Weird Pictures of Me - Part 1
I’ve been forgetting to post the Halloween costume I made for myself this year. Here I am next to some co-workers with better costumes…
Hint: I’m not a cigarette.
Answer: LLORGGE (backwards)
+ More...Designerly Holiday Cards
One of our clients sent me a very striking Kate Spade brand holiday card. It is of course a general purpose snowflake card… but it’s so well done!
+ More...BayJax With John Resig - jQuery and Javascript Testing
Attended the BayJax event with John Resig and I learned some techniques for javascript testing. A lot of it was was over my head with “deep browser tracing” and etc. but I pulled some practical lessons from it (hopefully). Above is a link to his presentation; “Understanding JavaScript Testing” - which I believe is the same or a similar presentation to what I saw last night.
Twitterers — follow John Resig @jeresig.
+ More...Wow, I REALLY Get Twitter Now
I met Pete Karl at the An Event Apart SF 09 opening night party and he told me about the A Feed Apart website his crew at Lion Burger made. The web app basically aggregates tweets with specific hashtags onto a simple to use website interface.
+ More...Eric Meyer is a Real Person
I assumed the W3C made up this “Eric Meyer” character as some sort of friendly mascot like Frosted Flakes did with Tony the Tiger to sell CSS but apparently he is a real person!
+ More...Neon Signage Typography
I always liked to see the craftsmanship on these neon signs because if you look closely — they do vary.
+ More...Second Varnish For The Win!
The worries about the second varnish not being noticeable were unfounded — the printer did a proof and they look great. Still sneaky, but clever sneaky rather than “mistake” sneaky. They will probably be all run after the long weekend and in my hands towards mi-week.
+ More...Business Cards Sneak peek
I haven’t had a business card update since 2006, so this will be a long-time coming. For those of you who know, the old set was sparse and I experimented with them by doing crafty things such as cutting, drawing and even stitching on them. Stitching be the most successful of the techniques and the one that taught me how useful a really snazzy card can be. It’s a instant conversation started and within a few months, I know the usual routine of what people say and can tell “the story” behind it.
+ More...TypeSett Refresh
TypeSett is freshly updated this weekend to coincide with the printing of the business cards tomorrow. The cards will be a 3-color, 2-side, metallic PMS bundle of coolness hopefully. Images to come tomorrow.
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