Or, I’m moving to Seattle. Yes, it seems it’s once again time to press the double-arrow and skip ahead to a new chapter of my life and career ...
Ever since I’ve worked at the Journal-World, I’ve lamented the fact that the typography on our sites left something to be designed. Straight quotes, widows all over the ...
It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog entry. The reason isn’t because I’ve had nothing to say about the web. Rather, I’ve been ...
Once again, I haven’t updated the blog in a while, and I’m feeling guilty about it. Truth is, I’ve been quite busy over the past few weeks ...
With South By Southwest Interactive 2007 only a week away, I’ve been looking over the schedule of panels to figure out where I want to be and when. Really ...
South By Southwest Interactive 2007 is only a couple of weeks away now, and I couldn’t be more excited. At the same time, the release of Web Standards Creativity ...
It’s been a while since my last entry, and while I don’t have anything really exciting to say, I do have a few little things to tell you ...
One of the most-cited issues with Django is the lack of inexpensive hosting providers who support it for those wanting to give it a shot. To be fair, it’s ...
I’m back from Vegas this week with an extra $300 in my wallet and a couple of great job opportunities on our World Online design team in Lawrence, Kan ...
Well, it’s been a while since my last post, so I felt like I needed to say something here to make sure you all knew that book writing hasn ...
We’re hiring. Yes, again. And this time it’s for a bunch of people.
Seven, to be exact (well, six more…one of them I already mentioned). If you ...
A few weeks ago, professional troll John C. Dvorak of PC magazine made some waves in the CSS and web standards world with this article, in which he calls CSS ...
World Online, the online division of a regional media company headquartered in Lawrence, KS (and also my employer!), is looking for a “Client and project development specialist.” If you’re ...
By now, everyone knows I use and like Django a lot. But it’s not perfect. There are definitely things I think could be better, as well as things I ...
In the past five years, I’ve held three different jobs. My perception of each can be summed up like this:
Let’s say you’re a PHP programmer (or ASP, or Java, or whatever) and you’re about to set sail on a new web app. One of the first ...
It’s been a while since my last post, and I apologize. I said after my May 1st reboot I wasn’t going to post unless I really had something ...
So I’m delving into the next-generation designs for several of our newspaper sites, and I thought it would be incredibly handy to have a great CSS framework for creating ...
Are you a kick-ass designer/developer looking for a kick-ass job? Let’s talk.
I work for one of the most innovative and award-winning news/media organizations in the world ...
I had kind of sworn off blog memes like this, but Ryan Brill tagged me with this one, and I’ve decided to do it for two reasons: one, I ...
Kansas State University, where I worked until a couple months ago, has two openings for “web specialists.” One of these spots is a replcement for me, so I have a ...
The so-called “Mobile Web” was a pretty hot topic at SXSW this past weekend, with at least two panels dedicated to it and mentions of it in several others. While ...
I dunno about you all, but I’m definitely getting excited about South by Southwest Interactive! I’ll be arriving in Austin mid-day on Friday the 10th and will be ...
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 ...
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 ...
…they’d like to toss my way? :)