November 2008
1 post
The Slim Kiwi Blog
Just a quick note if you’re following me here: The Slim Kiwi Blog is now live, focusing on our services, thoughts, trends and online marketing. Add that to your RSS reader, and keep up with me at markjreeves.com.
October 2008
4 posts
Fitbit - Automatically Track Your Fitness and... →
It’s unfortunate that the home page shows the device clipped to a pajama sleeve. The FAQ states that it clips to a wristband that’s included. In any case, Fitbit looks interesting. Analyzing and tracking data is fun.
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September 2008
1 post
Downloadable Designs: Turn Your Phone into a... →
I very often take a pic of items I receive in the mail or of sketches on paper with my iPhone and then email them to Alastair. This would optimize that approach.
August 2008
2 posts
Recent web site launches (including 3 today)
I’ve had the pleasure of launching a number of sites this summer, including three today that we’ll start with:
Jay Peak Resort - Working with Almighty Boston, I coded PHP using the AMFPHP framework for Flash to talk to. That PHP code talked to an ExpressionEngine database, completely bypassing the ExpressionEngine templating system. Not that I don’t like working with EE, and...
Study: Marketers integrate online, offline poorly... →
Why bother, then?
July 2008
1 post
I took the 2008 Survey For People Who Make... →
May 2008
4 posts
Review: Garmin Edge 705 GPS Offers Maps and... →
Makes me want to get a bike.
Web Worker Daily Archive : The Coworker's Cubicle →
Awesome idea for co-working habitats. It folds up, locks, and has wheels.
Apple and HBO Close to a Deal - Portfolio.com →
I can watch The Wire, CYE, etc on my iPhone?
Long Story Short: I got a new MacBook
Lesson learned: Buy Apple from Apple. I’ve been eyeing a new mac. My 1.5 year-old MacBook is capped at 2GB of RAM and I really need 4 when I’m slicing and dicing comps, assembling pages, and testing in multiple browsers. Add iTunes, Mail, etc on top of that, and things haven’t been too speedy. The lineup of iMacs was recently bumped up, and I was looking forward to a 24”...
April 2008
6 posts
Some pepper with your email list? - Campaign... →
The Campaign Monitor blog’s link to the Pepper I just posted at HaveAMint.com. Mint is an awesome stats package, maintained by Shaun Inman, that you can deploy to your own server and use to view stats in real time. Shaun has enabled plugin development, known as Peppers in Mint parlance (Pepper + Mint), and a strong community has responded with useful modules in turn. If you’re checking...
Business Technology : Accenture's Big Bet on Data... →
Mashups, cloud computing and data management: Trends in technology.
Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 Addenda →
More from Gruber. Count me among those developers who browse with Safari and test/dev with Firefox.
Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3 →
Gruber sums up my Safari3 issues nicely, and confirms I don’t need to switch to Firefox3 for daily browsing, but that, as I’ve been saying, I just need 4GB of RAM (new macbook!).
The new office, and other Slim Kiwi photos →
Magento Open Source E-commerce 1.0 released →
A very, very exciting new offering that should make e-commerce interesting.
March 2008
7 posts
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Acid Redux →
I meant to post this last week as well. Safari and Opera have been racing to declare themselves 100% Acid3-compliant. So? You’ve spent all this time coding against specific bugs and rendering requirements; can you see the forest for the trees? It’s like never reading a book or solving one algebraic equation in all of high school, and then passing the SATs based on a study guide. Have...
ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview →
Very, very cool.
Reason #1,818,342 IE6 sucks: Multiple classes
Let’s say I have CSS like so: body.two-col.HomeFinancing.top #col1 { ... } body.two-col.SecurityCenter.top #col1 { ... } I’m building up my two-column layout, I’m in the HomeFinancing section of the site, and it’s the top of the section. Essentially it’s a scenario for a unique background header image. IE6 ignores .HomeFinancing and .SecurityCenter. It just...
Bloxes →
Build furniture, walls and more out of cardboard. Sound-dampening too!
DerekAllard.com : ExpressionEngine 2.0 “official”... →
Great news for me, and my clients.
Don't use G-Archiver →
If you use Windows and have thought about using G-Archiver, don’t.
ExpressionEngine 2.0
is debuting at SXSW. I’m not there but I’m excited nonetheless.
February 2008
8 posts
Web Worker Daily » Archive Network Solutions and... →
Network Solutions taken to court for holding domains hostage.
Save the Internet Blog » Blog Archive » Comcast... →
Comcast pays people to fill a hearing so that the public and opposition can’t get in. Time to quit Comcast—wait, I don’t have another option at home.
Meanwhile, Microsoft Buys Danger →
Glad I switched from Sidekick II to iPhone, and T-Mobile to AT&T.
John Eckman →
John has used the Activity Stream in MovableType Open Source to aggregate all his online profiles and activity. With his contact info formatted as hCard and his URL as OpenID (I use ClaimID), this is a great home page.
Instapaper →
“Instapaper was designed for the iPhone.” Instapaper’s a nice little app enabling quick snagging of URLs and descriptions to read later, ideally when you’re stuck waiting around somewhere.
A List Apart: Articles: Keeping Your Elements’... →
Nice idea, but it makes your CSS layout JavaScript-dependent, no? I hate not being able to rely on :last-child for CSS navigation menus, but it’s often necessary to apply a margin or final border without which the layout might break.
“That works great for me but I suppose that Half the power and windows of...”
– Quarter Life Crisis on Coda. Ouch.
Google v Microsoft+Yahoo!
Any concern about Google taking on a combined Microsoft and Yahoo! just isn’t making sense for me. People at Google are there because they like making Google apps. The same holds true for Microsoft and Yahoo! Force the two together, though, and you have a huge clash of cultures, not to mention technologies. After Microsoft slashes employees from Yahoo! in the interest of leveraging costs, do...
January 2008
21 posts
An Introduction to Expression Engine [on Geek &... →
As linked elsewhere, a nice little overview on why EE rocks.
Time to start using HTML5?
In light of the recent debate surrounding Microsoft’s plans to introduce version targeting in IE8, it looks like time to switch from XHTML Strict as the preferred spec and start using HTML5. See: HTML5 DOCTYPE The Importance of Being HTML5 For more debate coverage: IE8 to include version targeting Version Two Almost Target
“There seems to be this relatively universal love/hate relationship with the...”
– Shawn Blanc » Coda: The One-Window Wonder I’ve felt the same way when using Coda. I’ve paid for it, indicating that I like the integrated environment and supported features, but I’ve had it eat files on me (it seems to hang when trying to save before finally saying it could...
HOWTO: iPhone Webclip Icons - Dan Dickinson: The... →
Webclips: A nice new iPhone features to drop icons on your home screen that link directly to a web site. Here’s how to customize the icon that shows so it’s not just a screenshot. (via DF)
Dreamhost Overbills Customers $7.5 Million; Uses... →
This is why I stopped being a Dreamhost customer. Their business is never concerned with their customers’ business.
“On Christmas, traffic to Google from iPhones surged, surpassing incoming traffic...”
– Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic - New York Times It’s because I was visiting my parents’ in rural NNY and only had my iPhone. I checked Google Reader often.
/Message: Building on Jeff Jarvis' Idea For... →
Annotating tweets on Twitter to be catalogued on various sites.
Glenn Wolsey : Blog Archive : Famous Mac User... →
Similar to my setup, except: He didn’t point out his JBL Creatures (see the green plug in the headphone jack?) which I use as well, via AirPort Express. I don’t have an external monitor (yet). My WD MyBook external hard drive is silver. My wireless keyboard and mouse are the new laptop style keyboard and Mighty Mouse.
Particletree » Automatically Version Your CSS and... →
Great idea.
CSS Text Wrapper →
Only appropriate for limited use, I’d say, but a pretty impressive technique, and an interface to generate code.
8 Common Misconceptions About Freelancers →
John’s Blog » Blog Archive » my new job at... →
Mozilla’s new CEO.
Peppermint Tea: The Shaun Inman (M)interview →
Apparently I’m running and checking more Mint installs on a daily basis than its creator. My Internet empire slowly grows…
Network Solutions steals domain ideas; Confirmed! →
DO NOT use Network Solutions to try out new domain names. They’ll park them, prohibiting you from registering them elsewhere but making them searchable. That leaves them available to snap up after they become unparked.
Some more tips for designers: Boxes and photos
1) Why would a box around a photo, that should be reused on photos throughout the site, be 594px by 359px? It has 8px borders all around the photo. Shouldn’t the height be 360px? 2) When you use a vector mask on a photo, even though each photo is a separate, distinct asset you’re dropping in PhotoShop, I can’t slice the background independent of the photo. I can’t create a...