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I don’t usually cover cooking stories, but this one satisfies a need (I have struggled needlessly with broiling for some time) and tickles my sense of simplicity. Broiling in a cast-iron skillet (preheated) sounds like a tasty time-saver.
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A simple progress bar implemented in CSS. Unfortunately it does not degrade nicely; the data does not come from the HTML. This could easily be remedied by altering the javacript to seek and update data in the page.
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This blog showcases pictures of unusual objects and asks: What is it? Each week there are new objects to puzzle over. Examining the rarer ones presents a fun mechanical-thinking challenge, and sometimes I gain insight into other problems I’m working on.
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Do not do this. While the effect is nice, this implementation adds a lot more markup than necessary to the page, duplicates content, misuses the fieldset tag, and interrupts reading.
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New hardware is commonly bundled with VERY BAD software. This is as true in the medical device industry as it is for consumer electronics companies such as Canon and HP. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Lou Carbone usefully and interestingly holds forth on a sometimes forgotten component of customer experience: emotion. A great presentation; if you are in business AT ALL you should watch this.
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Allows basic Subversion use directly via the finder and overlay icons, much like TortoiseSVN on Windows XP. Beyond excellent, and about time. I remember spending much too long tweaking and massaging my custom overlay icons for TortoiseSVN, so I expect I’l
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I’m a sucker for good icons. Smashing has put together links to twenty or so sets of free ones, many of which deserve a look and others that might just be the conceptual springboard to something better.
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“Charlie” (Mr. Enterprise 2.0) reveals how he work son the web. It *looks* like it is all about tech (RSS, RIA, social networking) but it is really about openness (sharing project status and other incidental work products, bookmarks, profiles, etc.).
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jsUnit, and unit testing in general, is good stuff. And while jsUnit is poorly documented, anyone likely to want to do unit testing in JavaScript will probably be able to figure it out.
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Lorelle on WordPress collects a set of CommonCraft videos that explain current web trends (RSS, social bookmarking, wikis, social networking) in plain English. Apparently there are more CommonCraft videos of this kind on YouTube.
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The bright folks at Cooper describe the document they commonly produce to communicate what a product will look like and how it will behave.
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Hackety Hack! presents basic programming concepts in a a practical and accessible manner. It is aimed at children, but I suspect that adults will enjoy it as well; it has personality, but it isn’t forced.
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A somewhat cryptic but very insightful and revealing set of (somewhat raw) notes about how inline formatting works, helpfully shared by Eric Meyer. I’m not aware of an article that correctly refines these concepts.
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A manifesto captures the ideal state resulting from perfect application of thought. But kaizen eschews perfection in favor of progress. Paying closer attention to ANY of the nine points here can’t help but improve your corner of the business.
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I like manifestos (manifestoes? manifesti?). They are idealistic expressions, pointing out what needs to change. And they are usually surprisingly difficult to live by. But there should be something in David Armano’s manifesto that you can start doing tod
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A nifty bookmarklet that forces a refresh of the css linked to the page. Perfect for when you can’t or won’t change the outbound caching settings at the server.
The person(s) responsible for the design of the Acropolis included innumerable details that, while not strictly necessary to the success of the structure as a temple, combine to make it one of the most effective architectural experiences before or since. Josh Clark notes a few such details in his insightful post of May 22. Another reminder that “Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.” — Michelangelo Buonarroti
I’m going to my first Los Angeles User Experience Meetup tonight. Here’s hoping it is a good one! I don’t know what to expect.
