Archive for September, 2007
First day out of the pit
So it has been a full day in my own office and unfortunately I didn’t get much time to myself. The Publications team was gone to a conference so we moved all of their desks and computers to their new working space. I was only in my office for increments of 5 minutes to check [...]
In: main · Tagged with: development, life, office, thoughts, work
Senior project gone too far
When does a senior project go too far? When you are doing a project that is in your profession? When you register a domain name for your “company”? When you create a logo for your “company”? When you consider creating t-shirts for your “company”? Or is it when you apply for a doing business as [...]
In: main · Tagged with: development, project, school, software, thoughts
PHPSimpl made it to del.icio.us popular "php"
We made it! Well sorta, small steps… PHPSimpl made it to the Del.icio.us PHP popular list. Its a small step but hey any recognition is good recognition. PHPSimpl del.icio.us information It have kinda fell off my radar, work has been crazy lately, my development time has been limited due to my new position and this [...]
In: main · Tagged with: delicious, inspiration, phpsimpl, software
Progressive Enhancement
Building for the lowest common denominator and then expanding upward. It sounds like a simple concept but most wed developers just can’t seem to grasp it. Not believing accessibility matters or being so inexperienced that building sites seems to just be a hack fest to make the “design” work in all browsers is the single [...]
In: main · Tagged with: css, javascript, optimization, programming, standards, xhtml
jQuery vs Prototype – Document Load: jQuery wins
Recently I started using jQuery instead of Prototype for my web applications. When I first started using a javascript library I picked Prototype because to be honest jQuery intimidated me, there was a lot of mystery about it. Well I took another look at it a few days ago and I was floored, boy I [...]
In: main · Tagged with: elegant, javascript, jquery, optimization, prototype, versus