MVC explanations - I love mailing lists

I came across this very elaborate explanation of MVC in a python mailing list. Just want to take this as an occasion to say thank you to all people that...

Hi guys, what's happening with CwS?

Good question! We were about to ask ourselves the same question. Even though Matthias came up with a new article today, we cannot deny that not much that has happened...

Figure microformats

An image, a caption and the image credit. That can’t be hard to get the associations right, can it? Delve into the discussion about markup, semantics and microformats of a...

Meebo firefox extension

Since I’m a great fan of meebo and consider it one of the best examples for an AJAX application, I am pretty thrilled to see the meebo Firefox...

Security: Even the simple stuff is hard it seems!

So I am reading about the bug in IE that puts your FTP details into the comments plaintext ...

Unitless line height in CSS

For a couple of years now I keep stressing the fact that line-height works best when you don’t provide a unit. And I am not saying this for no reason.

Respect! at SXSW

Though I'm a little leery of the massive size of SXSW this year, I'm really looking forward to seeing and catching up with friends...

xScope 2

Simply put, xScope is a back-pocket, time-saving utility for designers and developers created by designers who understand the nature of working on screen....

At the SXSW Google booth

There are so many people in Austin for SXSW Interactive. I haven't even seen some good friends who I know are here this year. Among 8-9 different tracks running at...

SXSWi Calendar for all

So a few of my fellow Google UXers and I will be at SXSW this year. We thought it odd that we couldn't find a calendar that aggregated all the...

Inside view

A little over a month ago, just before Web Directions North, John Allsopp asked me a few questions over email about what I've been thinking and doing lately. Digital Web...

Insult to injury

Last week was supposed to be a big week for me. As John Allsopp put it, I had been lured out of a self-imposed retirement from speaking, and was scheduled...

Opera Dragonfly Alpha released!

It has been a while since I’ve posted here, but today there’s more than a good reason to pick up the habit again :-) Here at Opera (I’ve been working...

Opera 9.50 Beta 2, and Opera Dragonfly

Opera has a second beta out for version 9.5. Go get it! Also, it’s a long lime since I first heard about this project. But I’ve not been able to say...

Fixing a 500 error with WordPress and Media Temple

If you read this website with any regularity you may have noticed it was replaced with a 500 error for a while. My apologies, I have no idea what triggered...

Microsoft changes their mind about default standards mode

I’ve previously argued about the X-UA-Compatible issue. I withhold that using the old IE7 Standards mode per default is the best Microsoft could have done for web compatibility. However, it’s...

The ACID3 test

The ACID3 test has officially been released! You can read about what it tests at The Web Standards Project: Acid3 Browser Test. Or you can take your browser through the...

USA suppressing foreign freedom of expression?

Scenario: A Swiss bank’s Cayman Islands branch has issues with content published by the website wikileaks.org. They take the issue to an American court. As the individuals behind the Wikileaks...

Interstate

My wife and I play a silly little game to pass the time on long road trips. It consists of taking note of license plates from as many states (and...

Rookie

How to start off a client relationship on the wrong foot, in four easy steps:

1. Tell the client they can call you at a specific time
2. Leave your phone out of earshot...

3. Protocol-relative URLs

   Did you know that URLs in HTML attributes can be specified as being protocol relative? I didn’t, until I came across something like this in someone else’s code I was...

4. @Links

   Introducing EveryBlock

   Local news done right, brought to you by one of the creators of the Django framework and his team.

   Django People

   Meanwhile, the other founder put together this gem...

5. An Embarrassment of Riches

   My kids got a lot of toys for Christmas this year. Too many, in fact. My brother-in-law described his family’s similar windfall as “an embarrassment of riches”. This, in...

6. True to its name

   I moved to Phoenix from the Bay Area back in 2001, after losing my job in the dot-com implosion. At the time, I was deciding between moving to the Valley...

Redesigning the TechCrunch Web Site Footer

I've been a reader of TechCrunch for some time. Although I mainly read it via RSS, I occasionally visit the site — either to post a comment or...

Do Online Press Releases Serve a Useful Purpose?

In his article Press releases: spin and propaganda, Gerry McGovern recently railed against the practice of posting press releases on web sites, asking the question:

…why do so many organizations...

Is It Fair To Criticize Bad Design?

Jacob Nielsen recently posted an Alertbox simply titled Four Bad Designs.

While I don't disagree with his observations and his conclusions, I also felt that perhaps it was a little...

NCsoft North America is Hiring Web Folks

Want to come and work for a leading computer game developer and publisher? I'm looking for a web producer and a web production specialist to join the web team...

BBC News Site Redesign and User Feedback

You may or may not be aware that the BBC recently redesigned its news web site. I'm going to comment on the merits of the redesign (well, okay,...

A Good Meta Description is Hard to Find

When I look over a web site from a professional standpoint, I'm primarily concerned about three things — the user experience, the aesthetic design, and how well the site is...

Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow

Q. What technology do you need to build the next Flickr? A. Trick question. What you need to build the next Flickr is people. George Oates, a key member of...

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?

Just because a design convention exists doesn't mean it works. Our field runneth over with design patterns, but is low on evidence of their utility. Jessica Enders drops some science...

Designing a web app with character

Designer at Moo.com, Denise Wilton delivers some sound advice on making your web app seem more human

Building a web app the Microsoft way

Think fast, feature-rich and affordable web app development and Microsoft may not be the first thing that springs to mind. But one agency put any prejudices aside and built a...

Developing with Google App Engine, Part I

It's only getting easier to build a scalable web app. In Part I of this article Adam Howell talks about the basics of getting an app up and running on...

The thrill of launch

1,000 signups in a day isn't half bad for a brand new app, just ask Peter Nixey. In this article Peter details the thrill of the launch of his startup...

Subversion for Designers

There's no question that developers need version control when working on an app. But what about designers? In this article Chris Nagele, founder of Beanstalk, talks about...

Coding for the mobile web

Introduction Good evening — in this article I will aim to demystify the world of mobile web development, or in other words, developing web sites so that they will provide an...

Rsizr

Rsizr Whoa. Web-based content-aware image resizing. I’ve already wasted too much time playing with this site.

Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards

Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards Not only is this a great article on Zeldman and his impact on Web Standards, but I even get a [...]

XRAY Web Developer Tool

XRAY Web Developer Tool This sweet little bookmarklet has already saved my butt a couple of times since grabbing it.

YSlow Add-on for Firefox

YSlow Add-on for Firefox Used in conjunction with Firebug this extension analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow.

Design Questions

Design Questions Andy Rutledge shares a few questions he asks his clients during the discovery meeting.

HTML5 differences from HTML4

HTML5 differences from HTML4 A nice compilation of differences between HTML4 and HTML5 (Via)

Safari and Ajax with UTF-8 Encoding

Combining foreign characters, JavaScript and calls to the server in a JSON format sounds like trouble — and it is. But this time Safari is causing the problems instead of...

Automatically Version Your CSS and JavaScript Files

Because we’re always on the look out for ways to speed up our web application, one of my favorite tools for optimization is the YSlow Firefox extension. Based on rules...

Reflections of an Interface Designer

Going into our 3rd year, I am amazed at the number of interface challenges Wufoo’s created for me. So far I’ve created over 50 interfaces and designs for our little...

We know, we know.

We’ve been neglecting you for awhile now and it’s not that we don’t love you and haven’t been dreaming up excellent and useful things. Quite the contrary. We’ve been very...

Loading Flash in an IE6/SSL Environment

A post on the lessrain blog, Nasty XML Load Bug in IE6, just prevented my day from being ruined. Apparently, there are issues with a Flash object loading XML in...

Ranked Searches with SQL

Creating some sort of search functionality is something we all have to do at one point or another. For the good cases, we have fulltext search or an external program...