Jeffrey Way at NETTUTS asked me several rapid-fire questions in this fun interview. Visit site »
Dan made us a site for Pro CSS Techniques. Sure, the book was released almost two years ago — but better late than never, right? The site Dan designed is beautiful. Ian and I couldn’t ask for a better promo for our book. Thanks, Rubin! Visit site »
I finally got the balls to put some of my code out there. This simple app allows for “e-mail this to a friend” functionality for any instance of any model in your Django database. If it sounds interesting, check it out. I’d love feedback. As you know, I’m a designer first, coder second, so I’m quite sure some of my code is not as optimal as it could be. Hopefully someone will find it useful. Visit site »
Kevin had me on for one of his patented “callcasts” yesterday, and has posted the result today. We talked about Django, Blue Flavor, new-fangled CSS properties, the great experimental web design of the late ‘90s, and more. It’s a short, laid-back conversation about a lot of different things, and it was definitely fun to do. Check it out! Visit site »
On this week’s podcast, Michael Trier and Brian Rosner talk a bit about my recent blog post, Top ten things that suck about Django, revisited. Their guests for the week are the developers of the popular Django e-commerce solution Satchmo, so they participate in the discussion, as well. I was happy to find that they considered the post a healthy discussion and found some value in it. The guys talk about several things mentioned in the post, including django.contrib.search, bulk delete in the admin interface, and the Python/Django install process. It's a great listen, and not just for the part about my post. In general, if you're not already listening to This Week in Django, you should be. These guys are doing a really, really great job. Visit site »
I’ll be heading over to London, my favorite city in the world (so far, anyway), to give a full-day workshop on building a custom CMS using Django. The workshop is being put on my the awesome folks at Carsonified, and you can register right now, if you like! Having been to several Carsonified events, I can say with a great deal of certainty that no one out there runs conferences and workshops more smoothly than this crew. Should be a great day.
I will definitely blog at more length about this event in the near future, but for now, head over to the Carson Workshops site and check it out. Visit site »
Several months ago, I spoke at Refresh Seattle. Kenny Meyers came. We met and became friends. For months, he has bothered me to write a blog post on the topic I spoke about, rehashing my slides and presentation. For months, I ignored him. So, the bastard wrote the blog post himself.
And it’s good. Check it out. Visit site »
Building on his post at Wired’s blog earlier this week, Scott Gilbertson now has a full article on the Wired front page, and again quotes me. I know it seems silly, but this is really cool to me. I’ve been reading Wired since its inception in the early 90s, so to be quoted on their website is pretty neat. And, they didn’t even get me using an F-bomb, this time. :) Visit site »
A life long goal of mine is to be mentioned in Wired magazine. Today, I’m in their blog. That’s pretty close, right? It even calls me a “prominent developer.” But most importantly, it quotes me (accurately, even!), dropping an F-bomb. Classy, Jeff. Real classy.
Thanks, Wired. :) Visit site »
Gene at Unmatched Style recently interviewed me as part of a series of interview on that site. Check it out. Visit site »
I’m absolutely frightened as to what my linking this could do to the Google results for a search for my name, but…well, what the hell. My cousin, Brian Ford, has written a detailed profile of me. As you might expect, it’s totally fascinating. I have to say, though — I’m actually only 31 years old (Brian says I’m 32). Aside from this minor error, the piece is 100% accurate. Visit site »
As I previously mentioned, I’m on the roster for Andy Clarke’s CSS Eleven, an international group of designers and developers working together to help the W3C’s CSS Working Group in delivering the tools that real-world designers need. I’ve been pretty pessimistic about the W3C lately, and I figured this was my change to try and do something about it, rather than just bitching all the time. I’m a bit cynical as to whether or not it’ll help, but we’ll never know if we don’t try — and like I said, I can’t really complain if I am unwilling to help. Visit site »
I guess this has been posted for a month now, but I didn’t realize it until now. It’s a short interview I did just after I moved to Seattle. Visit site »
In my first post over at the Blue Flavor blog, I discuss subtlety in design, and how it often separate great work from less effective design. Visit site »
Carson Systems’ Vitamin asked me to join their Advisory Board, and I jumped at the chance. I’ll be helping them “determine what’s important in the web industry today, what topics we should cover, which products we should review and who should be our next interview.” James Archer and Jina Bolton are also new board members. Visit site »
I wrote a shot piece for A List Apart on how the concept of frameworks can apply to designers, and specifically to CSS. We hear about frameworks all the time these days, but the concept is usually relegated to programmers doing JavaScript or server-side scripting. It turns out a good set of abstracted CSS idioms can also be very effective in speeding up your web design process. Visit site »
Nothing too special here and not a dramatic change, but I gave LOST-Theories.com a quick visual refresh tonight. Visit site »
Digital Web Magazine has published my chapter from Web Standards Creativity, which is all about PNG images and interesting ways to take advantage of their unique alpha channel transparency. If you like this article, be sure to grab the book, which has similar types of content in each chapter, from a whose host of great web designers. Visit site »