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Take what you can get (?)
«But, and it's a huge but, you define yourself by the work you do, and perhaps you need to redefine what you're willing to take and where you're looking for it.»
Bookmarks  article  SethGodin  business 
november 2009 by nathanperetic
Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
«Clients want every activity they pay for to lead to a tangible result—a website that fulfills their business goals and satisfies their customers. But it’s our job to help clients understand that their proposed website’s overall success depends on the quality of input throughout the site design and development process, not the quantity of input.»
Bookmarks  article  AListApart  DavidSherwin  UX  business 
november 2009 by nathanperetic
TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend
"Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies, cars and beer. According to Nielsen, 46 percent of viewers 18 to 49 years old for all four networks taken together are watching the commercials during playback, up slightly from last year."
Bookmarks  tv  marketing  article  NYTimes  business 
november 2009 by nathanperetic
Google redefines disruption
"And while each of these disruptions are impressive in their own right, when I read this week that Google was including free turn-by-turn navigation directions with each and every Android mobile OS, I had an immediate feeling that I was witnessing a disruptive play of a magnitude heretofore unseen."
Bookmarks  article  google  business 
november 2009 by nathanperetic
How GeoCities Invented the Internet
«On Monday, Yahoo put GeoCities out of its misery, shutting down the last remaining pages on one of the Web's original site-hosting services.»
Bookmarks  article  Slate  GeoCities  Yahoo 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Google Maps Navigation: The First Killer App for Android 2.0
«Android 2.0 just got its first killer app: Google Maps Navigation. Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 will be available for free and will be part of the default Google Maps app on Android 2.0 phones. The service offers all the features that users expect from a modern GPS app, including traffic data, 3D view and turn-by-turn voice guidance. Because it's connected to the Google cloud, the app can also display street view images, satellite imagery and real-time traffic data. Google also implemented a voice recognition feature.» # Jealous for the first time since getting an iPhone.
Bookmarks  article  ReadWriteWeb  Android  Google  navigation 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
What does browser testing mean today?
«Before we send over our design files to the chaps at CannyBill, first a run through of the browsers that we have tested in the new design and some musings about what browser testing actually means today, in the face of an ever more diversified browser and device landscape.»
Bookmarks  article  AndyClarke  browsers  css 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Google Groups is Dead
«As far as I'm concerned, Google Groups is dead.»
Bookmarks  Google  GoogleGroups  JohnResig  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
«I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.»
Bookmarks  article  Harper's  MarkSlouka  life 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Mixed Feelings
«Direction isn't something humans can detect innately. Some birds can, of course, and for them it's no less important than taste or smell are for us. In fact, lots of animals have cool, "extra" senses. Sunfish see polarized light. Loggerhead turtles feel Earth's magnetic field. Bonnethead sharks detect subtle changes (less than a nanovolt) in small electrical fields. And other critters have heightened versions of familiar senses — bats hear frequencies outside our auditory range, and some insects see ultraviolet light.»
Bookmarks  article  wired  nature 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
What Startups Are Really Like
«What people wished they'd paid more attention to when choosing cofounders was character and commitment, not ability. This was particularly true with startups that failed. The lesson: don't pick cofounders who will flake.» # You here that, Jay?
Bookmarks  article  PaulGraham  startup  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Football, dogfighting, and brain damage
«A long time ago, someone suggested that the [C.T.E. rate] in boxers was twenty per cent,” McKee told me. “I think it’s probably higher than that among boxers, and I also suspect that it’s going to end up being higher than that among football players as well.»
Bookmarks  MalcolmGladwell  football  dogfighting  TheNewYorker  article  culture 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
«In the following table, Quirks Mode, Standards Mode and Almost Standards Mode are denoted by Q, S and A, respectively. When a browser only has two modes, the Standards Mode is marked as “S”, if the line height in table cells works as in Mozilla’s Standards Mode, and as “A”, if the line height in table cells works as in Mozilla’s Almost Standards Mode.»
Bookmarks  resource  doctype  html  webdev 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Browser support for CSS3 and HTML5
«For now though I thought people mind find it useful to know the state of support in the current browser market. I've taken all the A-Grade browsers and tested them one-by-one for their feature support . Needless to say it's produced some interesting results.»
Bookmarks  article  css 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
WEFT-less
«A quick refresher: following a different path than every other browser out there, IE requires a custom-created, rights-managed font file called EOT (Embedded OpenType). The syntax to safely serve up an EOT to IE was shown in that previously-mentioned post. What we’re covering here is, how in the world do you create an EOT file in the first place?»
Bookmarks  article  MezzoBlue  DaveShea  css  fonts 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Create Your Own @font-face Kits
«Click the "Add Fonts" button and select all the TTF and OTF fonts you want in the @font-face kit. Choose your options then click the download button at the bottom. Voila!»
Bookmarks  resource  css  fonts  FontSquirrel 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
after Firefox 3.6 – new font control features for designers
«For many years, “smart” font formats such as OpenType and AAT have provided font designers ways of including a rich set of variations in their fonts, from ligatures and swashes to small caps and tabular figures. The OpenType specification describes these features, identifying each with a unique feature tag. But these have typically only been available to those using professional publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign. Firefox currently renders using font defaults; it would be much more interesting to provide web authors with a way of controlling these font features via CSS.»
Bookmarks  typography  css  firefox  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
New Rules for the New Economy
«Ubiquity drives increasing returns in the network economy. The question becomes, What is the most cost-effective way to achieve ubiquity? And the answer is: give things away. Make them free.»
Bookmarks  article  KevinKelly  economics  technology 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Better Than Free
«The Internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, and every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. Yet the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on selling precious copies, so the free flow of free copies tends to undermine the established order. If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?»
Bookmarks  article  KevinKelly  free  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Apple goes live with HTML5 video
«Apple has a fair amount of video on their site, and now you will find it displayed via the video tag.» # Not a big change as they're still serving video via the Quicktime plug-in for non-Safari users, but even pushing the envelope slightly is encouraging for web developers.
Bookmarks  article  Ajaxian  html5  video  webdev 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Google Releases API for Website Optimizer: A/B & Multivariate Testing for All
«Google Website Optimizer, a powerful tool that allows website owners to split traffic and test the effectiveness and conversion rates for an array of variables, has traditionally required a lot of back-and-forth between any given site and the Website Optimizer interface. With the release of a new API, announced today, Google is allowing site owners to conduct multivariate and A/B testing from their own platforms. Part of Google Analytics, Google Website Optimizer (GWO) is a free tool that "handles splitting a website's traffic, serving different variations and crunching the numbers to find statistical significance."»
Bookmarks  article  ReadWriteWeb  Google  analytics  testing 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Advanced CSS Styling and the CannyBill redesign project
«Over the last few months, as I've learned more about HTML5, I've wondered about the advantages that I might gain by using it. Recently I realised that the question shouldn't be why use HTML5 but why not? From what I've learned from reading and by talking to people, the only reason that I can find not to use it is that without JavaScript, HTML5's added elements (section, article, aside, figure etc.) cannot be styled in Internet Explorer.» # A look at what's possible now with CSS and HTML5.
Bookmarks  AndyClarke  ForABeautifulWeb  css  html5  webdev  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Web Open Font Format for Firefox 3.6
«In Firefox 3.5 we included support for linking to TrueType and OpenType fonts. In Firefox 3.6 we’re including support for a new font format – the Web Open Font Format, or WOFF. This format has two main advantages over raw TrueType or OpenType fonts.»
Bookmarks  article  webdev  css  typography  Mozilla  firefox 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Usability Testing: It's not a Myth
«Hoekman makes a number of great points on how to improve usability test, and how usability tests can have other advantages. However, his final conclusion ignores exactly why some of the teams in the comparative usability tests performed so poorly. They performed poorly not because usability testing can’t «identify problems and point a team in the right direction», but because the teams that performed poorly made horrible mistakes in their tests.»
Bookmarks  IgnoreTheCode  LukasMathis  usability  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Cultivating Your Competition
«Well, here’s a reason: the people you employ create your success and they’re not always satisfied to sit on the sidelines when they see innovation occurring in their industry. If you’re not going to let them participate in the innovations and improvements they’re seeing almost every day, they’re going to leave you in order to do so.»
Bookmarks  article  AndyRutledge  DesignView  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The Reality of Illegal TV Downloads
«Just stop treating the live broadcast as being sacred: it is merely one showing after the content has been made available. Instead, provide your own episode downloads at the same time as the TV broadcast. Make it attractive with additional extras for your hungry audience, like director commentary or deleted scenes. By all means offer a free ad-supported plan like Hulu for those who don't mind having their shows and brains invaded by rabid commercialism.»
Bookmarks  article  Acko  StevenWittens  television  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson
«FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Prince­ton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, this country’s most rarefied community of scholars. Lately, however, since coming “out of the closet as far as global warming is concerned,” as Dyson sometimes puts it, there has been noise all around him.»
Bookmarks  article  science  FreemanDyson  NYTimes 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The Boom of Doom
«The business of doom and gloom is booming these days and there are a lot of doomsayers peddling their wares. If you are paying attention to them you’re doing yourself and your family a grave disservice. If you are going so far as to seek out the doomsayers in their pessimistic publications, you are inviting your own failure and you’re an embarrassment to your generation. In that case you clearly deserve every bit of misfortune that will inevitably befall you; it is only fair. That is how nature works and nature is always fair. The future and viability of your design practice is not determined by where you take it in good times. It is determined by where you take it or where, by giving up, you let it go. Period.»
Bookmarks  article  AndyRutledge  DesignView  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy)
«How can you apply Getting Real-ish ideas inside a big company? Here’s an idea: Go rogue. Pick something and do it under the radar. Create something in a few weeks that normally takes a few months. Do something in a way that works better than the status quo (or shows the promise of working better), Then you won’t need to convince anyone with words — the results will speak for themselves.»
Bookmarks  article  37signals  business  GettingReal 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
«As companies grow they invariably get more such checks, either in response to disasters they've suffered, or (probably more often) by hiring people from bigger companies who bring with them customs for protecting against new types of disasters. It's natural for organizations to learn from mistakes. The problem is, people who propose new checks almost never consider that the check itself has a cost.»
Bookmarks  article  PaulGraham  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Gmail Preferred By Students, But Nothing Beats Texting
«Today's high-school and college students got their first email account at an average age of 13. Most students have had one of their email addresses for 8 years and have an average of about 2.4 addresses each. But if you really want to reach these students, you should forget email. Send a text message instead.»
Bookmarks  communication  ReadWriteWeb  article  socialmedia 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Challenges to a new design initiative
«There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.»
Bookmarks  Machiavelli  UdayGajendar  usability  change  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Newt Gingrich: Let's End Adolescence
«It's time to declare the end of adolescence. As a social institution, it's been a failure. The proof is all around us: 19% of eighth graders, 36% of tenth graders, and 47% of twelfth graders say they have used illegal drugs, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan. One of every four girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a recent study for the Centers for Disease Control. A methamphetamine epidemic among the young is destroying lives, families, and communities. And American students are learning at a frighteningly slower rate than Chinese and Indian students.»
Bookmarks  article  NewtGingrich  policy  BusinessWeek 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
When The Browser Doesn't Cut it: Basecamp's Lack of Mobility
«But there is one problem. Basecamp is browser native. I want mobile native. And ReadWriteWeb's VP of Content Dev Marshall Kirkpatrick tweeted today that he wants a Basecamp AIR app. Either way, it's clear that browser-only doesn't cut it anymore for Basecamp.»
Bookmarks  article  ReadWriteWeb  37signals  mobile 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Bipartisan 'Socialism'
«The seepage of government into everywhere is, we are assured, to be temporary and nonpolitical. Well.»
Bookmarks  politics  article  GeorgeWill 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Amazon CloudFront: Outlook for CDN Is Cloudy (and That's Good)
«In a day and age where more and more applications are built on the Web, availability and scalability are critical concerns for the companies developing these apps. And that has made the business of content delivery an extremely lucrative one. Unfortunately for smaller players, the pricing of content-delivery services has been prohibitive at best, leaving more traditional CDNs out of reach for small to medium size businesses. With CloudFront, Amazon hopes to tap this under-served market.»
Bookmarks  article  ReadWriteWeb  cloudcomputing 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Why is 37signals so arrogant?
«Use Southwest Airlines as the model. When customers demanded reserved seating, inter-line baggage transfer, and food service, they refused (and only now, are reluctantly providing semi-reserved seating). Why? It is not because they ignore their customers. On the contrary, it is because they understood that their customers had a much more critical need. Southwest realized that what the customers really wanted was low fares and on-time service, and these other things would have interfered with those goals.»
Bookmarks  article  DonaldNorman  design 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Why the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web
«A couple weeks ago on Twitter I said: “I still maintain the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web. Has been for years.” A few people agreed, but most didn’t. Some thought it was a joke. I wasn’t kidding.»
Bookmarks  article  design  business  37signals  JasonFried 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
College Stops Giving Students New Email Accounts: Start Of New Trend?
«Officials at Boston College have made what may be a momentous decision: they've stopped doling out new email accounts to incoming students. The officials realized that the students already had established digital identities by the time they entered college, so the new email addresses were just not being utilized.»
Bookmarks  article  education  ReadWriteWeb 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode
«At Microsoft, he says, there must be a shift from the traditional model of software to what he calls software plus services. As slogans go, it's not particularly catchy. But the sentiment is clear: Just packaging software, collecting the money, and then producing a new version a few years later (whether people want one or not) is no longer a sustainable business plan.»
Bookmarks  Wired  Microsoft  RayOzzie  article  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
If It’s Too Social, You’re Too Old
«I recently came to this conclusion: as an interaction designer, if I’m not actively using social networks, then I’m just not doing my job. It’s obvious to say, but social media is the evolving, messy, inexorable and probably bright future of this business.»
Bookmarks  KhoiVinh  Subtraction  socialmedia  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
How to lose
«It seems to me that this is the perfect opportunity to be a statesman. This is when you earn the right to be seen as a trusted advisor, not a self-interested shill. Two months or two years from now, when you interact with that person or organization again, we'll remember that you were the one who spoke up on behalf of the competition, the one who helped us find a better fit, the clearly disinterested advisor who helped us choose between the two remaining good choices.»
Bookmarks  article  SethGodin  marketing 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Pie In The Sky
An experiment in creating pie menus for Ubiquity
Bookmarks  article  NottheUser'sFault 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Google Labs Adds More Gmail Goodness: Gadgets for Calendar, Docs
«Wouldn't it be great if you could keep an eye on your other Google apps - like Calendar and Docs - without having to open multiple tabs or traverse from window to window? Now, thanks to the latest feature releases from Google Labs, you can. Introducing Google Labs Calendar and Doc gadgets for Gmail.»
Bookmarks  article  ReadWriteWeb  google 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Yahoo's New Application Platform Is Heavy On Social Features
«The new platform, dubbed Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS), represents an attempt to unify all of the company’s services using the same technology. The end result is a massive overhaul of its user-facing services, many of which are modeled after the most popular features of social networks like Facebook and MySpace.»
Bookmarks  article  yahoo  webmonkey  socialmedia 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
«If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth -- even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.»
Bookmarks  OrsonScottCard  article  politics  journalism 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Collateral Damage
«Interestingly, this conclusion isn't based on any personal preference or subjective analysis. I'm not saying that Windows Mobile is bad, just that it is probably doomed. It's a simple matter of market economics.»
Bookmarks  article  BobCringely  microsft  mobile 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Coding Horror: The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
«That's why even the hardest of hard-core programmers should be paying attention to people like Seth Godin. Steve was referring to marketing in the broader, more timeless sense of getting other people interested in your ideas.»
Bookmarks  JeffAtwood  CodingHorror  article  marketing 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The sad truth about marketing shortcuts
«This is why I don't have a podcast, a video channel, any activity to speak of on Facebook. It's why I don't use Twitter or travel the country visiting bookstores. There are many places to be, and it's tempting to act like those non-profits and race after the next one. But it doesn't work.»
Bookmarks  SethGodin  marketing 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The Wave
«Whatever you’re doing to market your company, I ask you to press “pause.” As I noted earlier, it’s beautiful out there today. Go for an espresso—perhaps even treat yourself to a double-shot. Lean back in your chair and ask yourself if you’re actually saying something that people care about. If not, I ask you to start looking for a wave. You never know; you might just find some gnarly surf out there.»
Bookmarks  EricKarjaluoto  ideasonideas  article  marketing  business 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Designing with Data
«We, the people who design software, must keep in mind that we are not designing for an art gallery. Simply creating beautiful things is just not good enough. We are designing products that will be used by humans who want to reach specific goals. We can’t just make stuff up and hope that it’s good enough. We need to do usability tests, we need to make sure our products are accessible, we need to make sure users can actually reach their goals. Statistical analysis is just one of the tools at our disposal.»
Bookmarks  IgnoreTheCode  LukasMathis  design  statistics 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax
«But though all of the major DVCS’s have features that set them above the previous generation of centralized systems, none stands head-and-shoulders above the others as Subversion does among the last generation: each of them was designed for a specific purpose, and each of them will serve those with different habits, workflows and development styles differently.»
Bookmarks  git  mercurial  article  dvcs 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Getting Started with Git on Mac OS X
«Git is not an evolution of SVN. It is entirely different. Git is a distributed revision control system – everybody working on a project has their own full copy of the repository and its entire history.»
Bookmarks  git  mac  osx  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Modernizr
«Have you ever wanted to do if-statements in your CSS for the availability of cool features like border-radius? Well, with Modernizr you can accomplish just that!»
Bookmarks  css  javascript  html5  resource 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Verizon Droid Is The Real Deal
«The Droid poses a different and more significant challenge to the iPhone than any other phone to date. The Palm Pre could have been that challenger, but it lacked the Verizon network, and users were unimpressed with the hardware. According to people who’ve handled the device, the Droid is the most sophisticated mobile device to hit the market to date from a hardware standpoint.» # When my contract with AT&T is up in another 18 months, I should have a few great options. I could be swayed from the iPhone by the right combination of features.
Bookmarks  android  motorola  Verizon  google  droid  mobile  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
CannyBill design process, package contents | For A Beautiful Web
«On top of this, I have found that developing my own package of conventions and library items makes designing in a browser as easy, I would argue easier, than plugging in a third-party framework like 960gs or Baseline. So what is stuffed into my package?»
Bookmarks  css  AndyClarke  ABeautifulWeb  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
jQuery Approach
"Approach is a jQuery plugin that allows you to animate style properties based on the cursor’s proximity to an object. It works in a very similar manner to jQuery animate, however it animates over distance instead of time."
Bookmarks  jquery  resource  ScottRobbin 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
What problems does Google Wave solve?
«I believe this is partly Google’s fault: they released Wave to geeks and hackers and social media folks first. But Wave is not a geek/hacker tool, or a social media tool, it’s a corporate tool that solves work problems (more on that later). On the other hand, they never claimed it would be a Facebook replacement or a Twitter killer. Google calls wave an “online tool for real-time communication and collaboration”. The way Google should have advertised Wave is: “it solves the problems with email”.» # I thought this was obvious. Apparently it wasn't.
Bookmarks  wave  article  google 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Collaboration is not Communication
«Google Wave is - in its current form - “next generation wiki”, not “next generation email”. That’s way unsexy as a marketing slogan, but would emphasize collaboration instead of communication.» # And that is why I need a Wave invite. Working in separate locations would be infinitely easier for Jay and I if I could get one.
Bookmarks  google  wave  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Microsoft's Competition for Windows 7
"But so here’s a thought: What if the reason why most PCs are still running XP has nothing to do with whether Vista is “good” or “bad”, but rather is the result of indifference on the part of whoever owns these untold millions of XP machines, be they at home or in a corporate IT environment. I.e., that switching to Vista, regardless of Vista’s merits, seemed like too much work and too much new stuff to learn; that the nature of the PC as a universal commodity is such that most of them belong to people who value “old and familiar” more than “new and improved but therefore different”. If that’s the case, Windows 7 may not do any better than Vista. Perhaps Windows 7’s competition isn’t so much XP as it is apathy."
Bookmarks  daringfireball  JohnGruber  mac  pc  windows 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Coding Horror: The State of Solid State Hard Drives
"The transition from magnetic storage to solid state storage is nothing less than a breakthrough. It's already transformative; I can only imagine how fast, cheap, and large these drives are going to be in a few years. So, if you've ever wondered what performance would be like if everything was in RAM all the time -- well, we just got one giant step closer to that." # My next laptop will have an SSD. Bank on it.
Bookmarks  CodingHorror  JeffAtwood  pc  hdd  ssd  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
"Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned."
Bookmarks  DerekPowazek  SEO  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
eCSStender.org
"Say goodbye to the browser-specific properties and hacks cluttering your files and say hello to lean, mean CSS. With eCSStender, when you write the rules, browsers pay attention."
Bookmarks  css  javascript  resource 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
An Event Apart
"An unofficial feed aggregator for An Event Apart"
Bookmarks  css  javascript  conference  twitter  resource 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
@font-face and performance
"This blog post summarizes Paul, Stoyan, and Zoltan’s findings plus some very important discoveries of my own."
Bookmarks  css  webdev  @font-face  performance  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The Great WebKit Comparison Table
On this page I compare 19 WebKits in order to prove that there is no “WebKit on Mobile” and to figure out which one is the best. My hope is that eventually I’m going to gain some insight in the “family tree” of all WebKits.
Bookmarks  css  html  javascript  ppk  resource  PeterPaulKoch 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
Revealing Mac OS X's Hidden Single-Application Mode
But it goes further. Lurking in the scary bowels of Mac OS X for all these years has been this little command, which brings back single-application mode. (Go ahead and try it - it's easily reversed.)
Bookmarks  mac  osx  tips  article 
october 2009 by nathanperetic
The League of Moveable Type
Bookmarks  typography  free  resource 
september 2009 by nathanperetic
OmniGraffle Wireframe Stencils
Bookmarks  resource  omnigraffle  ux  wireframes 
september 2009 by nathanperetic
How to Conduct Your First Client Call
Be fearless regarding understanding the competition. It's hard for you to focus on your strengths, in the eyes of a prospective client, without knowing the competitive landscape. "So, are you talking to any other designers/agencies for this project." Don't be afraid to say this. And don't be afraid to take it further. "May I ask which ones?" Guarded reply follows. "Oh, I don't need to know their names. I'm just looking for a clear understanding of what different options you are considering." Get any details that you can: size, type of work, and so forth. You can usually extrapolate names from that data, and have a rough idea of how to position your experience.
Bookmarks  business  article  DavidSherwin  ChangeOrder 
september 2009 by nathanperetic
SVGWeb Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer
"The package, called SVGWeb, consists of some javascript and an SWF (Flash) file. Thankfully, this is not an API, and there is no custom language or function calls to use it . You simply put your SVG content in your page as you would normally would (in a perfect world), and include the JS library which will detect if the browser has native SVG support or not. If it has support, it will essentially do nothing special. If it doesn't (IE), SVGWeb will take over and use Flash."
Bookmarks  svg  html  RustyBrick 
september 2009 by nathanperetic
Tagged
"The premise of HTML5 is maddeningly simple. Over the last few years, it’s become painfully obvious that the elements, attributes and behavior described by HTML4 is woefully out of touch with how developers are using it. The approach, as best I can tell, is to describe a new set of elements, attributes and behaviors that will be woefully out of touch with how developers are using it ten years from now."
Bookmarks  BigContrarian  JackShedd  html5 
september 2009 by nathanperetic
Git: Your New Best Friend
Bookmarks  sourcecontrol  git  sitepoint  article 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
Twitter Postings: Iterative Design
Bookmarks  design  JakobNielsen  ui  ux  article 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
WordPress Advanced Search
Bookmarks  Wordpress  search  plugins  article 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
Moving accounts from Quickbooks to Xero
"As I mentioned in my last post, last year we moved the business accounts for edgeofmyseat.com from Quickbooks to Xero. I’ve been asked for my opinions of Xero a few times recently and so thought I’d write this up here and it may be useful to others."
Bookmarks  quickbooks  accounting  xero  article 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
BBColors
Change colors in BBEdit and TextWrangler
Bookmarks  JohnGruber  DaringFireball  mac  texteditor  tools  article 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
Strolling to Conclusions
"Ask as many challenging questions as possible, and use those as the basis of your initial proposal and design discoveries. If there isn't a signed contract, you should be teasing out as much information as possible, not providing it in spades. (Unless you're showing relevant case studies.)"
Bookmarks  ChangeOrder  DavidSherwin  business  design  article 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
Design Business in a Nutshell
"Include in your overall cost of work common overhead costs, such as rent, phone, archiving your work, entering contests, and the cost of marketing and closing new business for your agency. If you don't, the time and cost you expend in closing new clients will go right out the window or be applied against the client project budget, which puts you in an even more slender box for doing the project profitably."
Bookmarks  article  ChangeOrder  DavidSherwin  business 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
Get Started with DNS
Bookmarks  article  reference  IT  carsonified 
august 2009 by nathanperetic
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