Posts filed under “Process” 

Last night, I had a great conversation with Jeff Croft about the pros and cons of requiring a Facebook account for login. It's a trend that seems to be on the rise and I, personally, don't think it's a good long term strategy.

After a recent DDOS to one of the sites I run, I put together a simple Python script to check in on my sites and let me know if any of them return anything besides “HTTP 200” as the response code.

Git svn a great tool, but it's not without its limitations. One such limitation is its inability to translate Git submodules into svn:externals. Thankfully, Git offers an alternative that is comparable and plays nicely with Subversion.

In reaction to my latest article for A List Apart, on FigureHandler, many folks have boldly claimed that this sort of thing should be done server-side. Here are my thoughts on the matter.

There’s been some great discussion surrounding my latest article for A List Apart. It is amazing to see how some people get the idea of progressive enhancement and some just don’t (or perhaps refuse to).

You may recall that the DOM Scripting and Microsoft task forces, in collaboration with JS Ninjas, had been compiling a list of issues, needs, and wants for IE.next over the last few months (a list many of you contributed to as well, via your feedback). The list was to focus on what we wanted to see happen in terms of JavaScript support (as IE7 didn’t get much of an update in that area), but when it came down to it, there were other areas we really felt needed some love.

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.

On WaSP today, Derek wrote an incredibly poignant post about the NFB lawsuit against Target. In fact, I thought it so relevant to the interactive work we do at Cronin and Company (the ad agency I work for), that I forwarded a copy of it to everyone who works there. 

Eric has a very enlightened post for those of you out to document bugs in IE7 Beta 2. He also echoed my feelings that this is a beta people!