BurningbirdBecause otherwise, I would go mad. New blockbuster video: Don’t go boating if you owe money to a giant squid. The movie of two friends in a boat on the Brisbane River, one of whom owes money to a giant squid. Guess where the giant squid lives? Soon to be a new feature length film. “It’s […]
There has been considerable discussion this week on Techmeme about weblogging tool as social networking platform, based on Six Apart’s release of Movable Type Pro 4.2. The announcement was still wet from its birth when the WordPress folks started touting BuddyPress, a variation of social networking based on WordPress. Among the social networking requirements for a […]
In an interview at Tech Republic, HTML5 Editor Ian Hickson stated: The second big controversy in recent history was over extensibility. There have been some requests to allow people to extend HTML without speaking to the committees working on HTML. We’ve provided a number of mechanisms for this (the class and rel attributes, the data-* attributes, […]
I have not been a frequent visitor to the Missouri Botanical Gardens this summer. I don’t care for the crowds the Gardens attracts during the “tourist season”. Though the number of people was still a healthy size yesterday, they also reflect the more easy going nature of the “off-season regulars”. The Gardens seem especially nice […]
The draft for Learning JavaScript, second edition, has entered production, and that’s more or less it for my tech book writing career. I don’t want to say I’ll never write another tech book, because never is a long time. However, I have no intentions of writing another tech book in the foreseeable future. I hope […]