November 19th, 2007

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Just finishing (yet another) blog post.

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Man, even using tables for tables isn’t that sweet.” — Tom Watson, Blue Flavor.

Blog entry // 11.19.2007 // 8:13 PM // 57 CommentsThe final word on frameworks, from someone way smarter than me
In which I point to James Bennett's terrific article on what frameworks are (and how they compare to "libraries" and "snippets"), and why people who are really good at building things with code tend to create, use, and publish them.
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Was just accused of wanting Andy Clarke’s stuff in my nonsense, if you know what I mean. Haha.

Photo favorite // 11.19.2007 // 3:28 PM // by dotsara // 7 Comments
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Status // 11.19.2007 // 3:01 PM // 0 Comments

Wishing Mail.app would let me create a filter for “people who hate me now.” Straight to the trash.

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Going off the grid for a while.

Link // 11.19.2007 // 11:16 AM // 0 CommentsSemantify, for Blueprint

A really useful tool for anyone who finds “making Jeremy Keith feel warm and fuzzy inside” on their web site’s priority list. By Christian Montoya. Visit site »

Link // 11.19.2007 // 10:45 AM // 1 CommentYouTube: Twitter jumps the shark

Twitter was featured on CSI. Weird. And yet, cool. Kinda. Visit site »

Link // 11.19.2007 // 10:41 AM // 1 CommentMSNBC.com Alpha Channel: I find your lack of DOCTYPE disturbing

Jim Ray (a helluva guy, for the record), explains why the new MSNBC.com pages don’t have a DOCTYPE leading off their source. What you’ll learn from reading it is that the people currently at MSNBC.com care deeply about standards and doing things the right way, but are handcuffed by some legacy code and tools. They’re working on it, and they’ll get their eventually.

As you know if you read this site regularly, one of my biggest pet peeves is people getting attacked for less-than-perfect HTML when its obvious they’re trying. One look at MSNBC.com’s source will show a marked improvement from the past, and a clear attempt at doing the best they possibly can. The fact that anyone would direct their standardista wrath and folks who are trying their best when there are still people not trying at all really irritates me. Visit site »

Status // 11.19.2007 // 1:09 AM // 0 Comments

Now I’m being told that “an emoticon would have gone a long way” — when I did use a smiley. Sweet jesus, how did this get so turned around?