Yearly Archives: 2010

Practical CSS3: What You Can Use Today and How to Do It. Everywhere.

For the past few weeks I’ve been tinkering with what CSS3 we can use today, via not-too-intrusive methods.  I did NOT try each and every third-party option out there.  Instead I focused on finding solid methods that worked in IE6/7/8, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

It’s been quite some time, so let’s get right to it… I know it’s not my birthday or anything, but if I had a cake with a few candles on it, I would wish for the same vacation (non-)policy that … Continue reading

Modernizr on the Server-Side?

Am still reading up on this, but am wondering if anyone has any thoughts/findings on this? https://github.com/jamesgpearce/modernizr-server Seems like a great way to lighten the load on the client and push only the content/elements that are usable to your users… … Continue reading

My First WP Theme: “Boilerplate: Starkers”

Building on the shoulders of giants, I present to you the Boilerplate: Starkers WordPress theme! Having been thoroughly inspired yet again by Paul Irish, this time working with Divya Manian, and their HTML5 Boilerplate, I couldn’t wait to build all … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

For lovers of Pandora, Shuffler.fm provides a similar “assumption-based” streaming service.  You pick a genre and they automatically bounce you from audio site to audio site, playing new and interesting tracks for you, all from within their portal.  It’s a … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

In keeping with my strong belief that we should be building a unified web (not one fragmented between websites and “an app for this” and “an app for that”, etc.), I have to say I am deeply intrigued by the … Continue reading

Fonts, Fonts, Everywhere, But Not a Font in Use…

Okay, brief Iron Maiden reference out of the way, now to the action… A brief note: I will be using the term “common font” to mean anything you can typically rely on to already be on a user’s computer (Helvetica, … Continue reading

Today’s Readings

Feeling kind of designy… Need to make a cool infographic? Old book cover designs are awesome… What does your work area look like? Inspired, and want to take note of a color palette, no matter where you are?  There’s an … Continue reading

Want to Get Away?

Check-out this video…  pop-it to full-screen… Apparently a real-time, 10-minute, single video shot, from Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium… Happy relaxing, Atg Top⇪

Today’s Readings

First some good news from Google: Voice Actions for Android.  Pretty slick. And now the bad.  Or is it?  I’m still trying to read between the lines in Google’s and Verizon’s new partnership on net neutrality…  There is a lot … Continue reading