I’ve just finished watching Nate Koechley’s talk on professional Front-End Engineering on the YDN Theater: Nate Koechley: "Professional Frontend Engineering" @ Yahoo! Video You can download the m4v for your ipod and read the transcription on Eric Miraglia’s blog. I’ve seen Nate give this talk before in a shorter version at @media in London, but […]

Here’s an idea to help those people in your office move away from IE6 to realmore modern browsers. Install FireFox or Opera on their machine Remove the Internet Explorer icon Replace the Opera or Firefox icon with the appropriate following ones Tell them when there’s any confusion that “Microsoft updated their browser, it looks different […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Let’s start with filthy anti-propagandaa cool comic about macs: IE6 gets more bashings with code to crash ie and a lovely IE6 voodoo doll. I don’t approve of using the crash code, but it shows how messed up the rendering engine really is! In the future we will […]

Today the rate limitations of Yahoo APIs has been made much easier The access allowance to the APIs is determined by your IP. Say you have the IP of 10.37.129.255 then you calculate your access like this: Take the IP and remove all the dots, so 10.37.129.255 becomes 1037129255. Divide the result by 2009 Divide […]

Things that made me happy this morning: First up a definition of design: Design is 70% dealing with people, 3% the idea, 2% selling the idea, 2% the brief, 2% being pig headed, 1% printing, 3% eye for detail, .6% invoices, 2% coffee, .7% tracking, .1% warm glow, .6% panic, 1% 4am, .6% staring, .2% […]