Post Archive 

I received an email announcement yesterday that WestHost (my host of choice) is going to be offering Ruby on Rails for install through its Site Manager. I guess it means that, sometime this month, my tutorial on the subject will no longer needed.

We feel bad about missing Grey Tuesday, CSS Reboot and all the April Fools shennanigans (too much work, not enough sleep), but we finally found something we can join/support in with little to no difficulty: CSS Naked Day.

While building a Flash game, I wrote some code to alternate through squares on a grid system and it seemed rather slow. My code made use of the % (modulo) operator and, thinking that was the cause, I went in search of a better solution. I blew the dust off the Bitwise operator (&) and researched what it actually does. As it turns out, this little bit of programming’s past can be quite handy.

The fine follks over at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are looking for a designer/developer to join their 5-person Intranet team. This year, they will be redesigning their employee intranet and moving from a static website to a role-based portal.

So, upon returning home from SXSW and cracking open the new issue of Seed, I read something I wish I’d known before “ Having sex is the best way to prepare for a speech.”

I had a fantastic time at SXSWi this year. It was great to catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and see what everyone’s been working on for the last year.

Kel and I landed in Austin, TX this afternoon. We’re here for SXSWi. It’s like an annual pilgrimage. Molly calls it “geek camp,” but I think of it more as a time to actually see the people I spend so much time with virtually.

Apparently I missed the release of Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition. It hit bookshelves February 23rd.

As opposed to just adding it to the comments in my original post, I decided to post the continuation of my email conversation with the unnamed executive at my former employer about the Target.com lawsuit as a new entry.