Archive for 2006

  • Legos are amazingWhile talking to a certain fellow at an untold location, I heard a statement that semi-floored me. He mentioned that web programmers don’t really create systems. They do not program and design systems. They merely assemble things. My thought was that he was comparing web developers to a lego model building, direction following individual. This seems to really undercut what some, might I say phenomenal web developers do.

    While web developing can at time be mere assembly of modules, often it is developing processes and dealing with some complex logic. I am not attempting to say that we are genius C++ video game programmers, however, I think we deserve some credit. We are not lego-assembling, direction following idiots.

    What are your thoughts?

  • McGriddle Gone McRogie We all know that McDonald’s ain’t so good for us. However, some of us keep going back. I remember when I watched Super Size Me for the first time. I agreed with the film and it’s research. I previously had tried to stay away from fast food. For the most part, I still do. However, after watching about 2 hours of delectable french fries and burgers, I wanted one real bad. The film had the opposite effect on me. I had stayed away from McDonald’s so long, that it made me long for a grease-soaked, salty box o’ fries. It made me want a huge Coke. It made me want a McGriddle.

    Lets make one…

  • Consistent fonts for form items
    This article is written partly inspired by Nathan Smith’s article from Sonspring. The idea with his article is that most browsers by default display form items with a different style than that of the document. This is because by default, form items do not inherit the CSS rules for font-weight, [...]

  • Ok, so I’m a Macromedia (now Adobe) Fireworks junkie. But…slowly I’ve been leaning towards Illustrator. I’ve seen some of the stuff done with Illustrator and I think its pretty durn sweet. So, I have ventured into the land of Illustrator and I am not happy. I know I need to pickup [...]

  • So, usually I would take months to come up with some long-winded and very informative tutorial on CSS for my fellow blog readers. However, today I am not feeling that kind…yet kind enough to post this.
    I respect Apple for quite a few things. Design is one of them. I think [...]