September 2008
48 posts
How Subtraction.com was converted to EE →
Khoi Vihn’s most excellent <a href=”http://www./subtraction.com/”>Subtraction.com</a> recently converted to Expression Engine, and Adam Khan details the hoary technical details of the migration.
“Blessings that are all quite personal but suffice it to say that this whole...”
– The Online Photographer: The Amazing Gift of Woo Lai Wah
WatchSafe for work Porn (SFW Porn) - more viral video crap, but still pretty hilarious.
‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’ →
Joe Clark’s new e-book on the intricacies of Canadian spelling.
Simple rounded corners with CSS3 box-radius and... →
Brain is hurting from the insane number of rounded corner techniques out there, but this looks like it might at least be a bit more future-friendly?
Find Anything You Need on jQuery to Become an... →
Wheelbarrow full of jquery goodness to satiate even the most voracious geek.
“He was, as everyone has said and will say, exactly what you would hope; he was...”
– David Eggers on David Foster Wallace
Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable... →
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about web form design. Luke Wroblewski’s book <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0018S232Q/thenonsuch”>Web Form Design</a> is another excellent resource.
WatchGet Your War On: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits - 236.com - Video
“I think you’ve fundamentally misunderstood why people buy beautiful products, if...”
– There’s no shame in looking good - (37signals)
Watch“This is the main stage presentation I made at the AIGA National Design Conference in Denver, CO on 13 Oct 2007. It’s been annotated to include additional captions on some slides that were images only when I presented them. See also my blog post.”
— Khoi Vinh
David Foster Wallace (in memoriam) →
All of David Foster Wallace’s writing for Harper’s magazine in one place.
Top 10 Worst Types of Blog Post (and how to fix... →
Interesting post from Boing Boing gadgets on 10 different ways we suck at blogging.
TTC Subway Dash & Dine 2008 →
Charting good restaurants within a stone’s throw of Toronto subway stops, apparently so you don’t have to free your butt off running to / from the station.
WatchDavid Foster Wallace interviewed by Charlie Rose, circa 1997
A bunch of other links and information in the Metafilter thread.
PayPal Fee Calculator →
I never know how much the fees are going to be when I send someone money via Paypal, but thankfully there’s more technology to help my stupid ass.
Automated PHP Deployment With Capistrano →
More nerd crap. Now that I’ve got all of my web site code and assets stored at GitHub, I need to figure out a way to push it to the live servers. I’ve always thought that Capistrano was for Rails…
Sam Ladner's Slidespace →
Sam’s teaching a full-time course at Ryerson on research methods, and she’s posted her presentation slides online. The course weblog is —here.
GoodGuide →
“GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.”
GitHub Guides →
Just started migrating all of my client Subversion repositories over to git / github, so these guides will most definitely get a serious looking-over.
Hidden Winnipeg - The Safeways →
I’ve always noticed these buildings in the past, but I never knew much about them. What’s cool is my aunt’s old restaurant (the Good Earth) is one of the noted buildings.
How To: Mac OS X 10.5.4 for the Eee PC 901 & 1000H... →
I don’t own one of these (or any ultraportable for that matter) but IF I did, I’d probably want to do something like this.
Javascript in Modern Web Design →
Huge list of javascript widgetly-tools (many that are jquery plugins). Note to self - get up to speed on jquery.
Collating and displaying content from multiple... →
Action Streams screencast from Six Apart.
RichardBenson.co.uk: MT Tips Archives →
Tips on working with Movable Type’s “Action Streams” aggregator plugin, which can pull stuff from various web sites (flickr, delicious, etc.) into a MT weblog.
