Web Essentials 2005 Podcasts
Posted on September 30, 2005
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Like many others I wish I could have made it personally to the Web Essentials 2005 Conference in Sydney Austrailia. Including speakers such as: Molly Holzschlag, Tantek Celik, Jeffrey Veen, Eric Meyer, Douglas Bowman and Derek Featherstone. Usually I’d have to pay for the conference, buy a ticket to AU and book my hotel/lodging. But thanks to the world of technology, many if not all of the lectures were recorded and can be heard via podcast/mp3 files.
Check them out here.
Absolutely brilliant information, tons and tons of it! Something fellow geeks must take a listen to.
Some of the lectures include:
- Liquid layouts using CSS – the joy, the pain, the tears
Russ Weakley -
Designing for Accessibility: Beyond the Basics
Derek Featherstone -
Rapid Design Prototyping With Standards
Eric Meyer -
Web Redesign: Workflow Redefined
Kelly Goto - Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience
Jeffrey Veen
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Posted on September 30, 2005
Filed Under CSS/XHTML, Tech
One-click Ruby on Rails OS X development solution
Posted on September 29, 2005
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Theres a package called Locomotive over at source forge that is a one-click installer for a completely self contained OS X Ruby on Rails development environment.
It gives you the latest rails gem, lighttpd w/ fast CGI installed and SQLlite. If you want to use MySQL or PostgreSQL you can use that as well. Its completely independant so it won’t break any existing rails development setup you have already on the system.
Could this finally be the “one-click-installer” for OS X similar to the one windows has had for a long while now?
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Posted on September 29, 2005
Filed Under Ruby on Rails, Tech
Lessons in productivity
Posted on September 27, 2005
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I’ve recently listened to an excellent interview with Jason Fried of 37signals. This isn’t that new but its something I would suggest be listened to. He gives some great points about productivity and success in software/project development and being efficient .
“The talk focuses on the four main tenets of reducing mass, embracing constraints, getting real in the process of development and managing debt. Jason explains how he learned that less is more when it comes to features and emphasizes the importance of building “half a product, not a half assed product”. The success of Basecamp has shown that the lessons 37signals learned in building it are of enormous value.”
Check it out hee at IT Conversations.
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Posted on September 27, 2005
Filed Under Business, Productivity, Ruby on Rails
Master of Networking
Posted on September 20, 2005
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As many of you may have found, networking is probably one the single most important factors in the success of pretty much any goal you’ve set out to achieve. Even trying to understand the complex structure of the relationships, the who/what’s/where’s/when’s, reactions of actions that comprise us reaching that goal and make up the journey from beginning to end case prove quite involved.
From computers to massage, from art to web design, from healthcare nutritionist to fitness consultant the main trend I’ve seen that I can’t say is too surprising is a big part of success is who you know.
I’ve found a nice article called How to be a master networker with some interesting tips and explanations about the facts of successful networking and how it is much more than the 2-D explanation you may have of it.
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Posted on September 20, 2005
Filed Under Business, Productivity
25 of the best (meaning worst) Katrina quotables…
Posted on September 11, 2005
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All I can say is wow…wtf. If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. :-
25 of the stupidest Katrina quotes:
Some of the best:
“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.” –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005
“Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well.” –FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005
“I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don’t have food and water.” –Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Sept. 1, 2005
“You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals…many of these people, almost all of them that we see are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold.” –CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, on New Orleans’ hurricane evacuees, Sept. 1, 2005
“What didn’t go right?’” –President Bush, as quoted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after she urged him to fire FEMA Director Michael Brown “because of all that went wrong, of all that didn’t go right” in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort
and of course:
“It’s totally wiped out. … It’s devastating, it’s got to be doubly devastating on the ground.” –President Bush, turning to his aides while surveying Hurricane Katrina flood damage from Air Force One, Aug. 31, 2005
mmmm doubly dubbayuh. yeah…
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Posted on September 11, 2005
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