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Blog entry // 06.11.2007 // 12:19 PM // 66 CommentsMy Posse’s On Broadway

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 ...

Blog entry // 05.29.2007 // 10:45 AM // 25 CommentsTypogrify: easily produce web typography that doesn’t suck

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 ...

Blog entry // 05.25.2007 // 12:48 PM // 8 CommentsAn EPpy, a few LOST-Theories.com updates, tons of Django apps, and some dissapointing news about serestandar.es

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 ...

Blog entry // 05.02.2007 // 2:35 PM // 19 CommentsDjango internships, Ellington jobs, an LJWorld.com redesign, and a short film review

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 ...

Blog entry // 03.01.2007 // 6:04 PM // 10 CommentsWhere to find me at SXSW

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 ...

Blog entry // 02.21.2007 // 2:26 PM // 5 CommentsStalk the WSC crew at Southby for fun and profit

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 ...

Blog entry // 02.05.2007 // 11:16 AM // 14 CommentsFebruary Updates

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 ...

Blog entry // 12.22.2006 // 3:03 PM // 33 CommentsWebFaction: Painless Django Hosting

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 ...

Blog entry // 11.27.2006 // 1:25 PM // 7 CommentsWorld Online Seeks Junior Interaction Designers

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 ...

Blog entry // 09.19.2006 // 11:20 AM // 11 CommentsRandom updates and thoughts

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 ...

Blog entry // 08.31.2006 // 1:40 PM // 11 CommentsSeven new positions open at World Online

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 ...

Blog entry // 08.07.2006 // 11 AM // 29 CommentsA helping hand for Dvorak

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 ...

Blog entry // 07.24.2006 // 4:45 PM // 10 CommentsWe’re looking for another great person

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 ...

Blog entry // 07.20.2006 // 11 AM // 62 CommentsTop ten things that suck about Django

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 ...

Blog entry // 07.20.2006 // 3:18 AM // 18 CommentsOn bureaucracy

In the past five years, I’ve held three different jobs. My perception of each can be summed up like this:

  • Washburn University: I say, “wouldn’t it be cool ...
Blog entry // 07.14.2006 // 3:15 PM // 19 CommentsDjango admin for your PHP app?

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 ...

Blog entry // 07.08.2006 // 2:55 PM // 45 CommentsDoes CSS belong in RSS feeds?

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 ...

Blog entry // 06.05.2006 // 1:20 PM // 15 CommentsYUI CSS Grids: awesome, but useless?

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 ...

Blog entry // 05.26.2006 // 2:41 PM // 16 CommentsHot web team seeks designer for full-time relationship

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 ...

Blog entry // 04.11.2006 // 2:43 PM // 7 CommentsMeme’d again…where was I?

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 ...

Blog entry // 03.22.2006 // 4:21 PM // 9 CommentsK-State is looking for Web folks

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 ...

Blog entry // 03.16.2006 // 1:57 PM // 9 CommentsOn the “mobile web” and contextual relevance

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 ...

Blog entry // 03.02.2006 // 10:32 AM // 14 CommentsSee you in Austin!

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 ...

Blog entry // 02.27.2006 // 11:29 AM // 143 Comments1&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 ...

Blog entry // 02.25.2006 // 11:30 AM // 23 CommentsDjango 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 ...

Blog entry // 02.01.2006 // 9:56 AM // 13 CommentsAnyone have a Yahoo Mail beta invite…

…they’d like to toss my way? :)

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Here be AJAX.
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