Adrian Holovaty’s sort-of “template language turned inside-out.” Basically, you feed it a series of web pages created from the same template, and it returns the template. Then, you can use that template to scrape data from other pages. Hard to explain, but seems really damn useful for those folks who spend a lot of time scraping data off the web. I had to read the example code like three times before it made sense, but when it did — sweet. Visit site »
I’m not sure what’s more pathetic: the Verizon CEO’s lame attempt at convincing his troops that his company actually sells devices that can compete with iPhone, or the face that he has no freaking clue when it comes to spelling, grammar, and basic rules like capitalizing the first word of a sentence.
Embarrassing, all the way around. If I worked for Verizon and I read this, I’d probably quit. Visit site »
Young Ludwig has put together a nice newspaper-influenced personal site design. Well done, my friend! :) Visit site »
You mean all I have to do to get out of my Sprint contract (since I just got an iPhone and AT&T service) is harass the hell out of them? Easy!
Seriously, though — I think Sprint has every right to do this, and I say more power to them. To me, any service that lasts longer than the point-of-sale transaction ought to be a two-sided agreement and either party ought to be able to terminate it any time. Visit site »
I swear, CNet is one of the worst journalism outfits ever created. In yet another spat of anti-Apple hyperbole, they’re all up in arms over the fact that Apple and AT&T require your Social Security Number in order to activate your service. Apparently this is CNet’s first cell phone, or they’d know that every carrier requires this information in order to do a credit check. And, apparently they’ve not done their homework, or they’d know that you can refuse to give AT&T your SSN (thus rendering them unable to perform a credit check), but you’ll be required to fork up another God-knows-how-much as a deposit.
CNet, you suck, man. Seriously. You suck. Visit site »
Although we never called it “quiet structure,” the design ideas presented here by Andy Rutledge are very much what we (and by we, I mostly mean Nathan were going for with the recent LJWorld.com redesign. The idea was to let the structural elements (grid, borders, boxes, etc.) serve their role as tools for positioning and establishing hierarchy, but also encourage them to fade into the background and let the content bubble up to the front as much as possible.
Andy uses CNN.com’s recent redesign an example of these same concepts.
Nice piece, Andy. Visit site »