Archive for May, 2008

New Version of the Motionbox EventHandler

Take a look at the new and improved Motionbox EventHandler (now on GitHub):
http://github.com/tobowers/motionbox-eventhandler/tree/master
New and improved compatibility (and requirement) for Prototype 1.6
Better extension of custom events and better ie6 and ie7 cleanup to work around a Prototype bug (which looks like it’ll be fixed).

RailsConf: UI in Rails

The talk is highly geared to working with designers that already know HTML and CSS. Unfortunately, that’s a limited subset. I’ve been lucky enough to work with a lot of them. I wonder how you convince designers not working in HTML to start picking it up.
One of my favorite points is that […]

RailsConf: 10 Things I hate about web apps

I gotta say… I’m a little unimpressed with this talk. He makes some valid points, but rather than working with the technologies available he went out and built his own client side app “Limelight.”
Ok, I’ll avoid the obvious: “You got to have distribution to make this viable.”
I think what he really dislikes about the […]

Rails Conf: Joel Spolsky

Joel today gave a pretty good keynote on the importance of aesthetics and technology today.
He pointed to the success of Amazon’s checkout page. His thought is that their checkout page is so well received because it allows users total control of the experience rather than the locked-in Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 process.
It’s […]

links for 2008-05-30

My DebugBar | IETester / HomePage
Let’s you use the rendering engines from all three IE browsers in one process
(tags: internet explorer internetexplorer ie test process rendering javascript debugbar jscompanion)

Don’t Overplan

208 Gradual Stiffening
[…]The novice by comparison, spends a great deal of his time trying to figure out what to do. He does this essentially because he knows that an action he takes now may cause unretractable problems a little further down the line; and if he is not careful, he will find himself with a […]

links for 2008-05-28

Better Gmail :: Firefox Add-ons
(tags: firefox plugin better gmail bettergmail email signature html rich)

links for 2008-05-24

dummied. endless_pageless: An unobtrusive pageless pagination in Rails plugin
(tags: pageless scrolling ruby scroll humanized)

links for 2008-05-23

YouTube - Adaptive Path’s Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for a…
(tags: video adaptivepath marketing user experience ux design google youtube)

The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces - ReadWriteWeb
(tags: readwrite read write web contextual websites ui interesting)

links for 2008-05-22

Lockdown
(tags: ruby security lockdown users groups access denied plugin rails)