Posts filed under “Potpourri”
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Now Read This I
I find a lot of cool links throughout the week and I usually bookmark them on some service, like Pinboard, but for some reason I never considered posting them to the blog. I’m recitfying that as of today.
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Knock on Wood (Pulp)
One of my books went musical. And on my birthday no less.
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HTML5 & CSS3 on the Appalachian Trail
We’re very excited to announce that our flagship training series, Retreats 4 Geeks, is returning in 2011! We’ll be kicking things off April 8th with 3 days of HTML5 and CSS3 with Eric Meyer and our own Aaron Gustafson.
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Thank you for a wonderful 2010!
As we near the end of our 10th year (we can hardly believe it’s been a decade already!), we wanted to take a few moments to thank you—our clients, our partners, and our friends—for continuing to challenge, inspire, and employ us.
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We Built a Chrome App
Yesterday saw the launch of the Chrome App Store and, along with it, an app we created called the wikiHow Survival Kit.
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Genius Design: Users are Humans, Too
Attending Web Directions USA in Atlanta last week gave me a healthy dose of the open web, from IA to data organization to HTML5 & CSS3, but what struck me the most were presentations about interface design strategies.
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Honored
Late last week, the nominees for the 2010 .net Awards were announced and I was amazed to find myself nominated for not one, but two awards.
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Brooke Valentine’s Celebrity Girl Fight Game
If you made something that was used by over Ten Million people, would you/it be a success?
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iPhone Controlling Flash with TUIO and UDP
I am in the middle of constructing a FTIR table and, until my lasers arrive, I decided to get some output from my iPhone. After all, it’s a great touch screen and a change from building apps in Flash, which I know better.
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RIP XHTML 2
This decision by the W3C to not renew the charter for the XHTML2 Working Group has, rather unfortunately, brought out the worst in the Web standards community. Personally, I have mixed feelings about the decision.