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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 […]

Internet Explorer only supports 32 stylesheets

Just so you know: If you have styles that look like they’re not being applied and you have a large number of css files, IE 6 and 7 only support a maximum of 32 stylesheets (through any method: javascript, @import, or link).

Rumsfeld totally incompetent (surprise?)

How Much Did Rumsfeld Know? - TIME
Secretary Rumsfeld then pulled out a two-page memo and handed it to me. “I wrote this after a promotion interview about two weeks ago,” he explained. “The officer told me that one of the biggest mistakes we made after the war was to allow CENTCOM and CFLCC to leave […]

Using git to solve problems locally before checking in

Wow… I just had a great git experience.
I had gone down a track of development that was critical for something I’m doing. I ran into a bug that I couldn’t solve without reverting tons of files. Oh oh in subversion land… especially after checking in all those changes.
However, with git it’s easy. I […]

Custom JavaScript events using the Motionbox EventHandler

YUIBlog has a very nice writeup on using custom events to build components.
The Motionbox EventHandler will offer the same capabilities they talk about to the Prototype developer.
The idea here is that you very loosely couple all your components and fire custom events between them to communicate. You do not register callbacks on individual components, [...]

Worst Internal Microsoft Video

I got this off of Vitamin News.
The thing about this video that makes it truly horrible is its relatively high production value. Microsoft spent a fair amount of time and money producing this crap. Worse it's for a bad product. I know M$ has the money for this, but to be publicly just throwing it [...]

Amazon beta tests persistent storage for EC2

Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier
[...]our forthcoming persistent storage feature will give you the ability to create reliable, persistent storage volumes for use with EC2. Once created, these volumes will be part of your account and will have a lifetime independent of any particular EC2 instance.
These volumes can be thought of [...]

Zappos, Southwest and Twitter

Logic + Emotion has a nice little write-up about Southwest airlines and Zappos doing good work on Twitter.
He hints at how the ad industry keeps trying to monetize, etc. This goes back to what I've been saying for a while: be honest, be true, and be all about the "talking." The rest [...]

Vimeo development roadmap

Making the Vimeo
Making the Vimeo Our Developmental Roadmap
So, what are we up to? We always have a lot of great new features and improvements in the oven, so we've teamed up with Toyota to bring everyone a little sneak peak into what we're cooking up. Now you can check out what we're working on, [...]