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Hotel pool
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Christopher Schmitt talks jQuery
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View from my hotel room.
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Wilson Miner redesign
Four score and seven years ago, there was a designer and blogger who went by the name “Wilson Miner,” and he was good (at both design and blogging). Then, he was swallowed up by some large company with a fruit for a name, never to be seen again. Today, he has resurfaced, with a new design for his personal site. And it is awesome. Love the classic 60s posters inspiration and the treatment of Wilson’s trademark green. Speaking of the green: check out the way everything on the page is opacity-driven, so that he can change the green to some other color with little to no effort.
“Little to no effort” is really important to guys who only blog once a year, it seems. :)
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django-reversion
Another approach to version controlling the content in your Django database. This one looks remarkably good, at a glance. It stores revisions in the database, rather than an external version control system, and can be added to an existing project with just a few lines of code (and no modifications to your existing models). Looks very slick. I only have one question: what happens when you make a schema change to a versioned model (i.e. add/change/delete a field)? I’m going to assume this would render the versioned content unusable, but I’m not sure about that. Anyone know?
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Tweethearts: blogger proposes to nerd girlfriend over Twitter, she tweets back acceptance
My old Seattle buddy Tara Brown got engaged to Sean Bonner tonight — over twitter. Congrats, you two!
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Scientists: Virginia shark’s pup a ‘virgin birth’
Because you can never have too much evidence of evolution these days.
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Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too)
My man Eric Holscher drops some Django and Python knowledge on your asses. A lot of good stuff, here. Check it out.
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Nathan Borror: Save RAM with mobile middleware
Nathan shows you how you can use a middleware to manage different templates between two versions of a Django site (such as a desktop and mobile version) without having to run a separate mod_python/mod_wsgi configuration, thus saving you RAM. Nice.
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Newsvine’s Mike D. interviewed
Nice short interview with Newsvine founder and close personal friend Mike Davidson. Good stuff.
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Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4
Wonderfully useful feature. Want.
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The Atlantic: Is Pornography Adultery?
Haven’t read it yet, but Rex linked to this, and it looks interesting. My general definition of “cheating” is this: Doing something your partner wouldn’t approve of behind their back. So, given that, I don’t think you can say definitively whether porn is adultery or not; it depends on the contract inherent in your individual relationship.
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CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer
A nice selection of CSS filters for many of today’s browsers. While I certainly advocate avoiding these kinds of hacks whenever possible, there are times when you really do need them. Via Inman.
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Airbag: Foxworthy.
Apparently it’s “blog to make Jeff happy day.” Great stuff from Greg here, reminding us of the difference between purists and perfectionists, and also reminding us that it’s good to not be an asshole.
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New York Times To Shutter IHT Site
Probably the right move for The Times, but it is a bit sad to see IHT, one of the most innovative journalism sites in the history of the Web, to be going away. RIP.
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Dave Shea: Zoom
Dave chimes in on a topic that is very relevant to me lately. He says:
> I wonder whether designing around scaling text is still a skill we need to hold on to, and for how long.
I also wondered aloud whether we still need to be using relative unit for type in my typography talk in Sydney a couple weeks ago, and the Twitter haters came out of the woodwork to say that I didn’t care about accessibility and and I was “not thinking about about my fellow man.” It’ll be interesting to see how they react when Dave wonders the same thing.
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How we spent our afternoon
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Me petting a Bonnetthead shark
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Me petting a Cownose Ray
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Jellies
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Garden Eels
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Beluga
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Whale shark
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The pictures don't do the size justice
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Kids and whale sharks
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Kids enchanted by a whale shark
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Aquarium entrance
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Georgia Aquarium
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Olympic Park in Atlanta
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From Olympic Centennial Park
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CNN headquarters
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Of course.
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Shara, Jeremy, and Chris
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Darrin Ward and me
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Garrett is tall.
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Heather and me
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Alison and me
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Alison and Heather
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It's not a web geek party…
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Dancing at the Blue Flavor closing party
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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