Posts Tagged ‘development’

Technorati

Monday, September 15th, 2008

I claim this Technorati Profile for the Queen of Georgia Drive.

That’s all I have to say about that, but I would also like to say hello some old friends with a CSS hack roundup. There’s the old voice-family Tantek route. There are IE conditional comments. Then there’s * html and *:first-child+html. Finally, this blather.

  • property: value; /* hello erbody */
  • #property: value; /* hello Internet Explorer */
  • _property: value; /* hello Internet Explorer 6, you dog…*/

I consider it a major victory to use none of the above, but I just had to untangle this last one, so I’m slapping this sticky note on my forehead. The octothorpe (#) filter can also be done with a period (.). Fun times.

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Don Chambers and GOAT

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Congratulations to local musicians Don Chambers and GOAT on a fine redesign. The art Don provided is great and I’m grateful to Jenn for including me on the project.

donchambersmusic.comGiven an atypical navigation, there’s the option of slicing it up crazy and chucking alt values at it. But not for Don, are you kidding? This called for a Staropramen served in an Old Style shot glass. If running around naked with your style sheets disabled is your thing, that’s ok.

Now go buy you some music.

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Walkability

Saturday, August 16th, 2008


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An Event Apart

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

I flew into Boston a bit sleep deprived from attending a concert. I was in “fan” mode, and prepared to apply a rock and roll metaphor to An Event Apart. The speakers delivered skillfully, so my expectations were met.

What set it apart was how engaged the speakers and attendees were. I simply hadn’t anticipated the energy and healthy level of participation. Accessible, friendly, social, enthused…that we were.

Some mobile blurbiage from the event, cleaned up a bit:

Waiting for the start of day one. Saw Eric Meyer at breakfast.

A/V booth: “Introduce yourself!”

E.M.: “I’m just an MC. Call me J style.”

“Tell them Eric Meyer says you need more.” -in response to my question about style sheets sans context. Now I’m empowered.

Douglas Bowman sat with us at lunch. Then Doug spoke on scale.

Excellent talks all around. We went to the party at Stix, hosted by Media Temple. Fun. It was Jason Santa Maria’s birthday. Talked to Christopher Fahey. Afterward Mirick, John and I met Borys. We went out for Tuna tartar and what not.

A great day 2 that ended with getting my name drawn for critique with Jeffrey Zeldman on stage (no really). Spoke more after with Doug, Christopher and David Sleight, whose cadence reminds me a bit of Chris Brown. Then Mirick, John and I went north for some Italian food. Va bene.

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