About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I wrote this up earlier this year and thought – maybe you know of a similar project that could get this idea off the drawing board…. This community news platform is designed to collect and disseminate information in the public interest for communities too small to be effectively served by a traditional daily news source …
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One of the apps I’m working on was using Rails’ caches_page to speed up performance and reduce server load. It worked great until we added new formats via within the respond_to block. If there wasn’t a format specified in the request – the caches would get all messed up. Well sometimes. Making it a difficult …
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This morning, I had an idea for a iPhone app. After drawing up a couple of sketches on paper – I dove into the internets to look for existing code, sample projects, or at least some tutorials that might get me started. While I did find an extremely simple sample project that did something similar …
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Earlier this week – a message came through the web font mailing list referencing VRML. A painfully slow, barely usable, 3d modeling-for-the-web technology that I experimented with VRML during my time with Jeremy and da5d. And I hadn’t heard of since. Shortly after my adventures in VRML, CSS 2.0 supported custom web fonts as we …
If you’re not able to attend tonight’s IgniteMpls event, or just want a preview of my 5 minute talk…. QWERTY History Why QWERTY was Invented QWERTY @ Wikipedia Christopher Lanthan Scholes: Wikipedia, Find a Grave Antique Typewriters’ Flickr Stream Alternative Keyboards Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Colemak Fitaly Opti GKOS Two Stick Frogpad Maltron
After too many sleepless nights, I’ve finally got Safari to render pre-gzipped fonts. All the fonts in Kernest are pre-compressed on the server (in addition to saving a little bandwidth, it also saves a little disk space and a couple hairs of server performance). I started with this post by Darren Rush on how to …
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On Thursday March 4th – I’ll be transforming my The iPhone, iPad, and the End of QWERTY post into a 5-minute presentation at the 2nd IgniteMpls event. Should be great fun. See you there. Now, which keyboard layout to create the presentation in.
I just received confirmation that my ‘Ban Helvetica: The Brave New World of Web Fonts’ presentation has been accepted into MinneWebCon on April 12, 2010 at the University of Minnesota. I’ll be covering; optimizing fonts for web use, browser compatibility, licensing, and answering your questions. Registration is a very reasonable $200.
One of the ongoing undercurrents of my thinking is the concept of acknowledged expertise. A concrete example – we’re the worst people to write our own résumé. Talking with people we’ve worked with is better. Having others describe us and what we do is far more accurate – if only because there are more of …
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Too much of the popular economics news paints an economically adversarial picture between the US and other countries of the world. Aside from the obvious issue that all economies are tied together because economic behavior doesn’t like to be restricted by arbitrary boundaries, the US economy is unbelievably larger than other countries. 3x bigger as …