BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. According to Techcrunch, the winning team of hackers at Yahoo’s HackDay was an all woman team. The project was a mobile computing device that one carries in one’s handbag or pack, which is a camera integrated with a pedometer that takes pictures every few steps, which it then posts it to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Despite temperatures this coming week into the 90’s and potentially breaking all records, we are into fall and our best color should be coming out in the next two or three weeks. Now is when I need to get into my car and get the fall color photos I’ve been […]
My editor, Simon St. Laurent, and I both agreed that with the new book, Adding Ajax, the work would all be valid and accessible. Some of this effort is easy; much is not. One particular area has to do with updates. When using a screenreader, or when using a screen magnifier, if the data in the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I skimmed through Steve Yegge’s “Good Agile, Bad Agile” piece and was thinking of responding, but luckily Dare Obasanjo responded first and said all I’d say and more–especially as regards to the ‘star’ treatment accorded to developers at companies like Google, and the employees gratitude back for being ‘so well taken care of’. Dare […]
PPK, writer of QuirksMode, has a panel proposal in at SxSW I wanted to point out to those of you attending. PPK is well known in the JavaScript circles and someone I respect for his good, commonsense approach to web page development–particularly with JavaScript. Yes, I am pointing you to a competitor, because he’s worth being pointed to […]