The Archives / 2006

• Organix: Finishing off the homepage

  Here's a quick check in on my redesign progress. I think I've gotten to a good point now with the home page.

• Live redesign: Organix

  It's been a long time coming, but the time for the format of my site is about to change. Unlike last time, this redesign isn't going to… Read More

• Spotting a fake: “New apple design”

  I spend far too much time on digg wasting my time, so my eyes sharpened when I saw this new apple.com design... or… Read More

• Code bounties

  Something interesting is happening in the open source community -- at least something I've hadn't noticed until recently. The idea is code bounties -- put up a reward fee for specific… Read More

• Sewing confusion with absurdity

  Sometimes I wonder if schools hire Information Architects to purposefully confuse the student populous.

• I just don’t get this whole Microformats thing

  I know this isn't going to be a popular opinion, but I just don't get this whole Microformats thing. No, seriously. I've tried and tried but I just don't get it.… Read More

• Image preloading revisited

  In years past, image preloading was all the rage. You'd see more MM_preloadImages than pictures of Britney at newstands. Who's to blame anyone? It was… Read More

• Hemingway styles: Winner!

  I'm a bit late on this, but I'm going to declare a winner to my little style competition

• The deception of job-hunting in the web business

  It seems that every day there's a new job posting site popping up on the web. It makes sense -- business is booming, and everyone who is anyone is hiring right now. It means a great… Read More

• Driving is fun again

  So, on Friday I finally picked up an upgrade to my aging '73 VW Superbeetle. Meet my new toy, my 2003 20th Anniversary… Read More

• Using CrazyEgg for goal optimization

  By now, I'm sure that all of you have heard of the fantastic CrazyEgg. I've been a huge fan of this service for a very long time now and think… Read More

• Turn off your computer

  Amidst the start of school, a poem from William Wordsworth: The Tables Turned

• The new generation of online marketing

  With the recent successes of sites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube the internet marketing space has all but flipped on it's side for consumer-driven products & services. … Read More

• The train that Web 2.0 Missed : Part 2 of 3

  This portion of my little mini-series is going to describe how students are expected to register at Cal Poly. The aim is to merely expose the blatantly… Read More

• The train that Web 2.0 missed: Part 1 of 3

  With all the craze of Web 2.0 and user-centric web applications that bring together user-generated content and community, there's a major niche that application developers have missed… Read More

• September Randoms

  Oh yes, it's time again for that wonderful time of the year when I decide to spew out a stream of consciousness because I just can't get it out of my head.

• Hemingway styles for geek fashion

  So, it's come about that time of year again when I'm feeling a bit guilty for not paying enough attention to Hemingway. So, it's come time to fix that.… Read More

• A few lists

  A few lists for you to enjoy.

• Why designers don’t contribute to open source

  There's been much discussion all over the web about how ugly open source is. Why is that so? Because designers are usually the last people to contribute to open source, and it's… Read More

• CSS & Email: The dirty little secret

  Quite some time ago, Mark Wyner published a piece at A List Apart title "CSS & Email, Kissing in a Tree" alluding to… Read More

• Opinion

  Opinion-less people suck. It’s true: you know who you are, and you all suck. What’s the fun in life if you don’t express your opinion? I’m sure as hell not… Read More

• How much does Rails cost?

  Today, I ran across something interesting in my Bloglines: Recent Rails job… Read More

• The state of the web: August 2006

  All words and thoughts in the proceeding article come out of my own nonsense brain and are probably more wild speculation than truth. Take what you read with a grain of salt

  I've… Read More

• Why do you read Warpspire?

  I'm not going to lie, this little old rag of a site has gotten more popular than I ever expected. As a result, I've had a bit of a hard time pinning down exactly what Warpspire… Read More

• Better living through DOM builders

  I've been working pretty heavily with JavaScript these past few weeks -- specifically parsing XML & JSON. I found out pretty early on that while modifying the DOM with… Read More

• Owning up

  Anyone who's ever owned a services business knows that eventually you're going to screw up. Bad. Soon you're going to have to explain this to your customer, and it isn't going to… Read More

• Jumping Ship

  Recently, someone in 9rules asked about whether it was safe to abandon 800x600 users on a new web application they were designing. A few people were adamantly against this, and… Read More

• Zig Version: The missing Subversion GUI for OSX

  Over the past year and a half I've grown to love Subversion. My first experience with Subversion was with TortoiseSVN (you can read about… Read More

• The joys of working at an agency

  Much ado is made of going freelance, but very little of working full-time at an agency. Many people view working at an agency as simply throwing their life away for slave wages.… Read More

• Testing HTML Emailers

  Recently I had a need to send out HTML Emails for testing without the aid of a email management app (as I've done in the past). As I stared at Outlook for far too long, I found… Read More

• I think the noise is taking over

  For several years, I've been an avid fan of Signal Vs. Noise, a blog run by those great guys in Chicago known as the 37… Read More

• Closet developers

  I get a fair number of people asking me "how do I do that?" -- referring to web design, of course. Many of them are envious (usually after they find out my salary), but don't realize… Read More

• Server Seed is a bad host

  If you've noticed, Warpspire suddenly dissapeared off the map sometime last night and was replaced with a "this account is suspended" message. Before today, Warpspire had been living… Read More

• My initiation into the Apple club

  Over one year ago, I wrote about switching. Well, the time finally came and I could finally afford to get my very own Apple. So, May 1st I took the plunge and pushed the buy button.… Read More

• Rails Day is coming, Rails Day is coming!

  If there's one time of year that I get really excited about programming, it's Rails Day. Last year's Rails Day was my first immersion into… Read More

• Prototype is a Javascript framework

  This will be a quick post, but I've noticed an ever-increasing trend around the 'net. I've been seeing more and more of these types of comments...

• Launching a site successfully

  For those of you keeping track, I launched Total Spore 5 days ago, and it's been a resounding success. So far, I've received more than 2,500… Read More

• Status Update (Reboots, ideas, and world domination follow)

  So it's May 1st. Normally, I'd point you over to the reboot site, but it seems Adam's had the server take an extended vacation in Honolulu today.

• Of higher education, lower education, and everything in between

  Right now there are thousands of young men and women across the country approaching the conclusion of a very important chapter in their life: the end of their high school career.… Read More

• Can you tell

  Along with Matt Brett I've been in somewhat of seclusion lately. Of course, it's all due to working… Read More

• Beauty in less code

  Tonight I added new features to Poetry with meaning (on my local machine) -- but I actually reduced the total lines of code in… Read More

• Blame Bryan Veloso

  Seriously, it's all his fault.

• April Randoms

  I've had about a billion things running through my mind lately, so I just kind of felt like spilling it all out there.

• Foot in mouth

  Sometimes we put our feet in our mouth. It sucks, but it happens every once in a while. I do it myself, but there are things you can do to prevent this. I realized this today while… Read More

• 9/11 and Pearl Harbor: Do we even care anymore?

  It's come to my attention that the majority of America is so blinded by tax cuts that they refuse to even aknowledge the possibility that perhaps America might have done… Read More

• The devil is in the details: a review of Backpack

  I know I'm no graphical genius or have talent oozing out of my brain, but I'd like to think I'm a decent… Read More

• Writing: Blocked

  Lately I just haven't been feeling writing. I don't know what's up, but it's the reason for lack of reasonable articles (oh yes Khaled, I'm calling… Read More

• Hemingway updates & testing

  Hemingway seems to have gotten some great attention lately. First Matt and that wonderful Wordpress.com crew got… Read More

• AJAX Tamed: Where HTML and the DOM meet

  AJAX is a powerful technology and frameworks like Prototype and Dojo have made it frighteningly easy… Read More



Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come

The Shape of Punk to Come is a revolutionary album. Not only is it truly genre-bending, but it's a damn good album to listen to. I must admit, the first time I heard the album I was a skeptic. I just thought it was a bunch of crap thrown onto a CD. My mistake was listening to songs, and not the album as a whole.

Feb 15^th / 11pm

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• The friends you keep

  This is going to be a very rare post from me: a post about drama in the blogsphere. Yep, I said it. Blogsphere. Today, 9rules announced that they're going to start weeding out the… Read More

• Setting up Subversion with Dreamhost and Windows

  Subversion is an immensely useful tool, especially for the practicing web developer. Think of it as the backups you never created: after setting up your project in Subversion, you… Read More

• My name in print… err, pixels

  Just a quick shout out that my article in Treehouse Magazine came out today. If you’re not subscribed already, get to it!

• Hemingway: 0.12

  Well, it's official. Hemingway is ready for a new release. I'd like to thank the dozens of people who volunteered to help me out during beta testing: with… Read More

• Hemingway: I need beta testers

  Hey guys, this is just a quick update on Hemingway. I spent the better part of the day working on it, and I think I've come on to something. Really. But, because what I'm doing… Read More

• Warpspire: A few landmarks

  Well, at the end of January Warpspire hit a few major landmarks, so I thought I'd document it if not for my own sake. January, of course, was a historic site for this site with… Read More

• Officially Announcing Poetry with meaning

  So, I know it took me a while to get to this, but here it is: Poetry with meaning officially launches today, January 30th, 2006. Go ahead,… Read More

• PHP 5.1.1 + Markdown and WordPress = Kaboom!

  So, I log onto my site tonight after noticing it was down for about five minutes to find my entire site has exploded with all sorts of errors resembling this:

  Warning:… Read More

• Tagged

  It would seem I've been tagged by Koray. Some of the info below is a bit stretched since I'm still only… Read More

• Good Copywriting launches

  So, in the wee hours of the morning I snuck yet another site into my lineup: Good Copywriting. Check it out, it's a small experiment of… Read More

• What I want from an analytics package

  So, this past weekend I decided to splurge and buy Mint, mostly just to see what all the hype was about. Honestly, I think I still like Measuremap… Read More

• Predictions for the future

  I thought it might be fun to say where I think the web, technology, and music are going in the next few years. I really feel 2006 is going to be some kind of renaissance for technology… Read More

• Apple’s new hot thing

  I love Apple. No, not in the way that I love Mt. Dew (which I do) but in the way that I love the brand. I love the ideals behind it, I love the products backing it, I love the people… Read More

• (Re)introducing Hemingway

  The time has finally come for me to unvail my first release of a Wordpress port of Hemingway. This is by no means a final… Read More