Archive for April, 2008

Client side validation for free (as in beer)

Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Live Validation - Easy Client-side Javascript Validation
My library of choice is livevalidation, which has a Rails companion too - if you are using Rails form helpers and standard validation on your models, you don’t have to touch anything just install livevalidation (=drop it to your javascripts folder, it’s […]

Sorry if you noticed the bad formatting

Seems that Wordpress will add
tags inside of object tags even if you’re using the regular editor (admittedly - I’m not on Wordress 2.5).
However, that does very bad things to your layout.

Getting blur, focus and change (in ie) events to bubble using the Motionbox Event Handler

UPDATE: We have solved this out of the box in the Motionbox EventHandler now:
You might notice that blur, focus and change events do not necessarily bubble. At Motionbox we use the following hack to subscribe to all form fields at dom ready and then fire custom events so you maintain the same [...]

Don’t fuck with love - the music video

I don't know who put it together, but this animation is kind-of like a live-action popup. The song is good, but the video makes it.
http://video.ifc.com/medialab/523/128/dfwlifc.swf

links for 2008-04-16

Upcoming | ReadBurner
(tags: nice looking really simple site)

Insanely great video (documentary?) about a crazy ramp in small town Europe

This documentary is insanely awesome. I can't tell if it's real or not. It's about a moderately sized ramp that everyone says is "huge." in a small town in Germany?
Anyway - it's hysterical. You can link to it here.

links for 2008-04-15

cityofsound: Monocle: design notes
(tags: toread monocle magazine webdesign kottke cool long blog jump font design web)

Seth Godin on building a personal brand.

Seth has a nice little post on using Twitter and blogs. Since seeing him talk about Meatball Sundae, I've been more than a little inspired in our new enterprise: Jump Canopy. We already have one product: Critboard. This blog has been a little "practice" for me before we go into [...]

OpenID using your google account

http://openid-provider.appspot.com/
This lets your users use their Google ID to log into any OpenID consumer. It seems that the google accounts page is supporting this now someone has implemented OpenID using Google's new AppEngine. That means Yahoo, AOL, Google all support OpenID... with pledged support from Microsoft. Why bother implementing your own system [...]

Helvetica in interface design

Cocoia Blog » Swiss Interface Syndrome.

"Why, 50 years later, is [Helvetica] still so popular?”
Erik stares into space a few seconds, pondering, sighs, then answers:
— “I don’t know… Why is bad taste ubiquitous?”

This is a really great article about mixing fonts in Mac OSX interface design. I like the last bit the best though.