08

Feb

HAML Sucks for Content

This actually taught more about HAML than the documentation.

05

Feb

Flash 10.1 optimized for Mac OS X

With Flash Player 10.1, we are optimizing video rendering further on the Mac and expect to reduce CPU usage by half…

Well! That’s exciting news. I’m looking forward to a better Hulu experience.

via John Nack on Adobe

04

Feb

Maybe I don’t hate Microsoft so much.

The company’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has continued to deliver huge profits. They totaled well over $100 billion in the past 10 years alone and help sustain the economies of Seattle, Washington State and the nation as a whole. Its founder, Bill Gates, is not only the most generous philanthropist in history, but has also inspired thousands of his employees to give generously themselves. No one in his right mind should wish Microsoft failure.

via The New York Times

21

Dec

Human Scale

I like the last paragraph where he applies “Human Scale” to website design.

06

Nov

Ampersands (&'s) in URLs

Another common error occurs when including a URL which contains an ampersand (“&”):

<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>

This example generates an error for “unknown entity section” because the “&” is assumed to begin an entity reference. Browsers often recover safely from this kind of error, but real problems do occur in some cases. In this example, many browsers correctly convert &copy=3 to ©=3, which may cause the link to fail. Since &lang; is the HTML entity for the left-pointing angle bracket, some browsers also convert &lang=en to 〈=en. And one old browser even finds the entity &sect;, converting &section=2 to §ion=2.

To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use &amp; in place of & when writing URLs in HTML:

<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&amp;section=2&amp;copy=3&amp;lang=en">...</a>

Note that replacing & with &amp; is only done when writing the URL in HTML, where “&” is a special character (along with “<” and “>”). When writing the same URL in a plain text email message or in the location bar of your browser, you would use “&” and not “&amp;”. With HTML, the browser translates “&amp;” to “&” so the Web server would only see “&” and not “&amp;” in the query string of the request.

via htmlhelp.com

15

Oct

14

Oct

Bloggers can’t write

Most blogs aren’t very good.
Bloggers can’t write.

The writing isn’t the only thing that makes blogs bad; the lack of consistency isn’t helping either.

And I am a victim of this too. Blogs are kinda of a chore when you know that no body is going to read them. Maybe if there were more appreciation for the work put into blogs then the writers would care enough to put more time into them. Or maybe it’s the other way around. If writers put in more time, then people might care to read them.

Just a thought … (and a personal note to myself).

07

Oct

Google A/B testing feels too minimalistic

05

Oct

The advice hasn’t changed

1999 – Build it and they will come. (a.k.a. field of dreams syndrome)

2004 – Build it for users, not search engines, and they will come.

2009 – Build it for users, optimize it for search engines, create content for link bait, promote it through social media, reoptimize it for conversions and they will come and convert.

The advice hasn’t changed. There are just a few more pieces.

via SEOmoz

18

Sep

How about kicking the shit out of the old guys?
via 37signals