January 2009
22 posts
Just had a DIY fit and cut my own hair. Result: Awesome. Hope to be able to borrow good camera and post result to Flickr later.
Är det nån som har en bra term för “Call to action”-element i design (dvs t.ex. “köp nu!”-knappar på en webbsida) på svenska? #svpt
wireframing.
So. Very. Tired. Worked, break, worked some more, went to se old ex play a concert, came back, worked 2 hrs more on card sort prep docs.
Gripe of the day: Filenames. Why oh why do people name for example PDF-files that they publish on the web weird or cryptic things, or let them have random strings as filename, created by the CMS? (I’m looking at you, ASP .NET!)
I’ve always been a bit of a pedantic file namer myself, and if I intend to share the document with any wider audience I often use some form of very...
…on the other hand I’m going to a Springsteen tribute concert tonight, might sound corny but I’m quite excited b/c of weird lineup.
Wishing I was in Brighton so I could attend #skillswap chez @clearleft with @clagnut and @jontangerine. Alas, I’m not. :-(
trying to get better at unit testing and testing in general. Trying out TDD using doctests in python. Fun!
CRM systems and the like scare me, for some reason.
Speaking of testing, this looks pretty amazing: http://www.getwindmill.com/ - Automated website testing through Python.
…and then I thought “Wouldn’t it be nice to integrate Windmill w. Djangos test framwork?” & BAM! I happen to see this http://bit.ly/3ewvvc
Note to myself: Idea for blog post, “All the various ways of clearing a float, their pros and cons”.
I intend to explain to myself and others exactly why & how the fiddling with overflow (both “auto” + width & “hidden”) works.
Also why it’s a bad idea to use “.clearfix” on every element and it’s grandParent.
OH: “Did you know that most of the important battles in the war in Korea were fought using Karate?” - Martin, watching a Korean movie #svpt
Right, been working (somewhat seriously) for almost 12 hours today. Time to call it a night.
In addition to the developer-friendly goodness from the previous post, Sitepoint also releases this: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/27/introducing-firescope-the-sitepoint-reference-tool-for-firebug/
Drool! Looks really handy, will also recommend this to my web dev students.
The sitepoint reference section has redesigned, and finally launched the Javscript section. Yay! Teh interwebz have sorely missed a central location for JS info, documentation and browser compatibility charts etc. Good stuff is at http://reference.sitepoint.com
If this doesn’t make you happy and grateful, you need help (via @jannygirl, via @jcroft): http://barefootmeg.multiply.com/video/item/56
Neato. I’ve felt for a while that a) I sometimes need to save things (thoughts, shorter stories etc) to my “lifestream” that wouldn’t really fit into a blog per se.
That, and the fact that my blog never seems to get finished… Anyhow, now I have this dashboard widget to post stuff from. Sweet, I think I might use this quite a bit…
Louis CK tells it like it is. →
This is funny as hell, standup comedian Louis CK (writer for Letterman, Conan etc) talks about how short our attention spans and memory are: we are living in the most awesome of times, yet we are the dumbest and most spoiled generation ever. I especially enjoyed the part about the guy getting pissed off about free WiFi not working on the plane:
“This is bullshit, man” - Dude,...
… Ok, but what do I do with all this fucking lemonade afterwards?
Started a tumblelog
Yup. Gone started me a tumblelog alright. Yeah. I gone and done it, goddarnit.
I’ll probably use this mostly for gripes that are to long to fit into a twitter update, heh…