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February 9, 2007

Sumo!

Javascript Microformats goodness.

I didn't get the memo about Pipes but it looks promising.

It's like an Erector set for the Internet.

February 19, 2007

When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Eek, eek.

February 25, 2007

"...an OpenID is not an account."

Now, how long before it's encrypted with PGP or something similar?

February 26, 2007

Call it what you like, it's still Frontpage.

And it's still going to suck.

February 27, 2007

Where our standards went wrong.

It's been all downhill since we lynched the blink tag I tells ya.

"Content is not locked away in a swf. The swf should/could be simply the way of displaying the content."

Interesting.

February 28, 2007

A new Ning.

I'm doubtful but I hope the work we did helped.

March 23, 2007

Happy Cog Philadelphia is looking for a monster truck driver.

And you only have to work on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

March 30, 2007

Web Standards Stole My Truck.

A slide show.

April 5, 2007

CSSVista.

Jim, this is the app we were talking about on Monday.

April 9, 2007

Google 411, a demonstration.

I have a hard time believing that this will always be free.

April 10, 2007

Bork Bork Bork!

"Feeoo veb peges oor meeel es spukee by zee Svedeesh Cheff."

April 16, 2007

Paul Ford on creating the new Harpers website.

Must read for anyone in the business or otherwise interested in such events.

April 17, 2007

Adobe enables Flash to add DRM to content.

Is this good or bad? I can't tell.

April 18, 2007

PNG color mismatch on the web: an easy fix.

Nice work Hefter.

April 22, 2007

RSS and Subversion.

A little project for a rainy day.

April 23, 2007

I love Panic, especially when the relase more software.

Coda. Get it. Don't think, just buy.

April 24, 2007

The baseline, reworked.

It's a CSS hotrod.

May 2, 2007

A community for skilled developers.

Do private communities really work?

May 3, 2007

Silly season.

For Jessica.

May 11, 2007

Why, exactly, is ALA sitting in a blog search engine?

It's a magazine dudes, not a blog.

May 23, 2007

Bookmarklet to find latitude longitude in Google Maps.

After a long search, finally a good solution is found.

May 24, 2007

Building community-focused apps with Rails.

Also serves as a great guideline for building online communities.

May 25, 2007

Vote Blinksale!

And vote often!

May 31, 2007

How do you handle day to day operations?

I mostly bark orders while chewing on cigars.

Adobe ColdFusion 8.

Wow, does anyone use this anymore? Maybe for legacy projects?

Creed Thoughts.

1up: A view of the Stanley Nickle!

June 5, 2007

Movabletype 4 is here!

Also unveiled, the MT Open Source Project.

June 6, 2007

Common pitfalls of building social web applications.

For David.

June 13, 2007

For our new project manager, who starts Monday morning.

Come prepared!

June 18, 2007

Versions: Beats the command line.

Beta me.

June 19, 2007

Content Specialist?

Uh, why not just ask for a web developer?

June 21, 2007

Expression Engine 1.6 is here.

Don't forget to snag the Pages module while you're at it.

June 25, 2007

Combining RSS feeds from two weblogs in Movable Type.

For later.

Basecamp gets OpenID.

And a multiple account switcher? Sweet! Thanks guys!

July 4, 2007

NYT is looking for a Front End Technologist (free beard and crystals included).

I'd hate to see what they call their Flash designers.

July 7, 2007

Thirty email templates from Campaign Monitor.

It's a bonus link for them but I figured it's a resource that should not be missed.

July 9, 2007

Happy Cog needs some managing.

Cigar smoking and large 1970's lapels not required, but a plus.

July 15, 2007

Half of the podcasts for @media 2007 are now available.

Thanks guys!

July 26, 2007

Foldspy.

Nice idea. I generally do this before a site goes to HTML though.

"The position involves interfacing with a team back in the states as well as being the right hand person for our clients web needs in Iraq."

Pay $240k a year. Really.

July 27, 2007

Understanding community development strategies.

For the guys at Red 5.

MT goes to the trouble of making an iPhone version of their control panel.

The time would have been better spent improving their service.

August 5, 2007

Syncotype your baselines.

Nice work Rob. Thank you.

August 7, 2007

Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards.

Sounds like the perfect reality show.

August 8, 2007

Dammit, I thought this was going to be in San Diego.

Oh well, at least Jet Blue flies there.

August 10, 2007

"If the wireframe starts as a wireframe and then morphs into the actual design, go for it."

The sentence that inspired Jumpchart.

August 13, 2007

"Are you all just dumbed down by the fact you've got a job or what?

Tell me. Let's fix it. W3C, WaSP, whatever. We have problems."

August 16, 2007

MT4 has landed.

Along with a nifty new website and interface.

August 22, 2007

"...users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons."

They also sit and shake hands of rewarded properly.

August 23, 2007

Eric Meyer is the new John Madden.

Nice work dude.

September 1, 2007

Seven lies about information architecture.

Thanks for the notes Luke. Priceless.

September 4, 2007

Creativity is an Everest.

"...the only finishes available to you are either giving it all up one day or dying on the cliffs."

September 7, 2007

Oakley is looking for a web developer.

We could almost be neighbors.

September 11, 2007

iPhone-specific web development is misguided.

"I'm just asking for more balance."

September 12, 2007

How to make Gruber hate your app.

Goto 10.

September 22, 2007

Glider.

Ethan, check out the snap-back behavior.

Continue reading "Glider." »

September 24, 2007

CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3.

Crazy.

September 26, 2007

US Department of State is using Expression Engine.

Get that on the homepage Leslie.

October 29, 2007

Flat button syndrome.

Thanks Safari 3.

October 31, 2007

Mozilla Labs Prism.

"Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we're not building a proprietary platform to replace the web."

November 4, 2007

OpenSocial.

Saved for an upcoming project.