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Sucession
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Sucession
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Sean Kelly screencast and presentation on J2EE vs. web frameworks
This Lessig-style presentation is mostly good, especially if you want to compare J2EE to web frameworks in general. It’s not quite as good a comparrison of the four web frameworks it deals with (Rails, Zope, TurboGears, and Django) because it seems to get
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Khoi on Newsvine
Khoi brings up several good points about Newsvine, the about-to-be-released community news site from Mike Davidson.
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Inman: Making of Mint presentation slides
Nice slides from Inman’s recent Summit presentation, someof which feature illustrations by Kevin Cornell. There might even be an appearance by Yours Truly if you look closely enough. :)
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Experiments in Faking the Tilt-Shift
A few experiments with the Photoshop technique I linked earlier today that attempts to replicate the effect of a tilt-shift lens. Easy to do, and pretty neat. Was a lot of fun to play with.
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Featherstone interview in Digital Web
Derek Featherstone ribs me good for my free iPod habits in the latest Digital Web interview. Derek, I fully intend to bitch slap you at SXSW. :) Seriously, though — good interview, go read it.
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Small boat, big river.
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Making big things small is fun.
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Chi-Town, Monopoly-map style.
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Chi-Town, Monopoly-map style.
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This is the best one.
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This is the best one.
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Peyton in miniature
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Peyton in miniature
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If Microsoft Designed the iPod Packagaing
Perfect.
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WTF 2.0?
Russell Beattie wonders where the business model is in most of these Web 2.0 apps. Interesting article.
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1&1 Internet is the devil.
1&1 Internet (which might also be called 1 and 1 Internet or 1 & 1 Internet) is a piss-poor excuse for a service company, and I advise you to never use them for your web hosting, web site hosting, webhosting, internet service provider, or as your webhost. 1&1 Internet has possibly the worst customer support of any company I have ever dealt with in any industry. What follows is an e-mail I sent them this past weekend, to which I (of course) got no response from 1&1, not even from Andreas Gauger (Chairman of the Board), Ralph Dommermuth (Founder, CMO and CEO of United Internet, 1&1 Internet’s parent company), Achim Weiss (CTO).
What follows is an e-mail I sent to complaints@1and1.com, which (of course) went compleltley unanswered, in regard to the twenty seven (27) hours of downtime I had here at jeffcroft.com (and several other sites I host) late last week.
Update: About an hour after posting this, I got a response from 1&1 offering me a free month of hosting. Hard to say if this post had anything to do with it, but it sure feels a little contrived to me. While I wouldn’t really say they’ve made up for the frustration I dealt with, at least they did something. The e-mail they sent me is now included here, as well. Update #2 (March 4th): A week later, this entry is now the fourth result on a Google search for “1&1 Internet”. I don’t feel the least bit guilty. I gave them plenty of opportunity to make things right, and they wouldn’t do it (sorry, a free month isn’t good enough).
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Fake Model Photography
A tutorial on using Photoshop to fake a Tilt-Shift lens effect, creating the illusion that you subject is actually a miniture. Pretty cool.
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personalDNA test
I’ve always enjoyed personality tests and the related psychology — and this is a good one. It even features so clever
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s PyCon2006 presentation slides
“Snakes on the (mf’n) web.” Jacob’s presentation has the best slide titles of all time.
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(fake) iPod Video video
Cool video which appears to document the creation of the much-talked-about “iPod Video” photo (and also appears to prove it is a fake). Boys, if you’re going to make fake Apple product photos and try to pass them off as real, this is the way to do it. If
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CSS Mastery competition — win an iPod shuffle.
A clever and fun promotion for Andy Budd’s new book, CSS Mastery. Post a picture of yourself with the book for a shot at an iPod shuffle. Sexy-looking site, too.
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I won on Blingo!
After hearing of lots of people winning, I switched to Blingo for my searches about three weeks ago. Today, I won. Just a $10 gift certificate to iTunes — nothing terribly exciting. but still — not bad for doing nothing more than searching the Internets. :)
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blik INVADER: Giant Space Invader decals for your wall
God I want these.
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Django Templates: The Power of Inheritance
For this, the second entry in my series of posts about the Django template language (part one was an introduction), I’ve chosen to focus on its inheritance capability, which is probably its most powerful feature. Inheritance makes it possible to whip up new pages for your site very quickly and easily.
Because many of the readers of this site are bloggers themselves, I’m going to use an example of a simple blog template in an attempt to demonstrate how inheritance works in Django’s template language.
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Using Django to Supercharge Web Development
Steve Hold writes up his thoughts on Adrian’s Django presentation at PyCon.
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Yay! Michelle and I are back together!
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Yay! Michelle and I are back together!
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Yay! Michelle and I are back together!
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Google does Mac widgets
Although I don’t think I have much use for any of these myself, I think it’s great to see Google show some commitment to the Mac platform.
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Airborn Cats
A Flickr photoset. Unbearably cute and funny.
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How to Subscribe to TV Shows Using The Democracy Player, Bittorrent, & RSS
This rocks. Nothing more to say.
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Brent O’Connor on Rails and Django first impressions
Brent O’Connor, a php/MySQL developer, gives both Rails and Django a try for the first time — and blogs his thoughts.
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Kansas wins 10th straight Big 12 game
Aww yeah. Peaking at the right time! Where are the haters that said the sun wouldn’t come up in Lawrence now? :)
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Django Templates: An Introduction
Within the first few hours of my new job at World Online, I was tossed into the unfamiliar land of Django templates. In fact, the idea of using a template language at all was mostly new to me. Sure, Iâve poked at Moveable Type templates here on this site, but Iâd never used anything on the level of Django’s templates before. A month later, Iâm extremely impressed with the system. It lets me do everything I need to do without my having to learn to be a programmer — and a not-trying-to-fumble-over-a-programming-language-Jeff is a happy Jeff. As such, I thought Iâd start a series of posts here on jeffcroft.com highlighting some of my favorite features of the Django template language…
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Avalonstar Bowling Minisite
Bryan Veloso shows that he has way too much time on his hands with a pretty mini-site for the SXSW bowling tourney. Team Midwest takes on Team Forty in round one. Team Forty includes Scrivs and Rundle, so I suspect we’ll have to get our trash-talking game
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Conversational Terrorism
Aesome. Funny and so true — a listing of techniques used by folks who are trying to manipulate a conversation. Thanks for this one, Wilson.
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skEdit 3.6
For me personally, the is probably “too little, too late,” as I’ve gone and fallen in love with TextMate, but skEdit was always a very nice little HTML/CSS/JS editor with a built-in site manager, and I’m glad to see it’s back from the dead.
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Blargon
Interesting take on the jagon of the blogosphere, including terms like “meme,” splog,” and even “the blogosphere.” Probably nothing new to the readers of this site, but it’s interesting to see how the mainstream media perceives and portrays the bloger
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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