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Category Archives: Web Development

New Life for an Old Domain

28-Aug-08

As some of you know, I also write (wrote) for a blog at lr2.com.  It was a reasonably popular links blog when I cared to post a few times a day.  In the last two years I have all but ignored the site, and traffic has fallen steadily as a result. Since I am already [...]

2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker – Testing Two-Step

20-Aug-07

2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker A humorous look at Why, What, and How to test. Why we should test our web applications. What part of the applications need testing. How to steer development to help with testing. How to use free testing tools to make your applications rock a step or two above the competition. [...]

LOLCat Generator

26-May-07

Whoa, that’s some crazy growth. I launched LOLCatGenerator.com earlier this week and the growth rate is crazy. So far I’ve got just over 200 cat pictures up and ready for captions. More features should follow this weekend and next week as I get time to work on them.

Beautiful Python: The programming language that taught me how to love again

25-May-07

» Beautiful Python: The programming language that taught me how to love again – DevChix – Blog Archive Beautiful Python: The programming language that taught me how to love again Very interesting take on someone’s progression from programming in C++ through Perl to Python.

Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid

10-Apr-07

A List Apart: Articles: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid Over the last year or so, there’s been a lot of talk about grid systems and using column grids for website layouts. Mark gave us a lesson plan, Khoi gave us a case study and Cameron gave us a toolkit. The message [...]

Saturday 4pm – Ruining User Experience

17-Mar-07

It’s all about the water. Or more specifically it’s really the small aspects of one’s meal that determine how well you appreciate your waiter. The same holds true for web applications. It’s not how well the app does it’s job but more about how much it annoys you. Any annoyance is a barrier to entry [...]