Software As She’s Developed

Command-Line, CSS, Design, Gradient, HTML, ImageMagick, Tutorial, Web2.0 Problem: The great thing about standards-based web development is how easily you can tweak the look by modifying CSS properties. However, contemporary gimmicksconstructs like curved surfaces and gradients aren’t yet supported, which means simple tweaks - like changing a colour - usually require a round-trip between a graphical […]

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The good news is that an agreement has been reached on the Sitemaps protocol by Google, MS, and Yahoo! (via TechCrunch). The Google originally developed this protocol. The bad news is … who’s using it? Supposedly Sitemaps improves ranking, but a quick sample - techcrunch, digg, odeo - found 0 out of 3 using it (404s […]

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Ivan Moore’s “Ten Years On” post reminds me of an anniversary I overlooked, it’s been five years since receiving my Photocopying Diploma, Professorship of higher Drinking, Programmership for Hypothetical Developments PhD - picked up five 339-page doorstops from the printer on the morning of September 8, 2001, signed the declarations, and it was accepted in […]

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On Ajaxian, Dion points to Sun’s Phobos project, an attempt to build a new platform for server-side Javascript. Phobos came out six months ago, around the time of the May Ajax Experience. No-one has taken server-side Javascript seriously since it died a premature death in the mid-90s. But there is great potential… Server-side Javascript would allow for […]

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