Archive for February, 2006
I spent a lot more time than necessary today trying to figure out how to use Yahoo’s Ajax object. The first minor setback occurred because I didn’t know that the callback variable MUST be defined after the success and failure functions. I am still not really sure why, but now that I know how it [ READ MORE ]
I am leaving for Seattle in the morning (5:20 am flight, ouch) with a few coworkers. We will be attending Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience. The presentation focuses on all the work that goes into planning for a usable website. Every single point they highlight on the overview is going to be valuable [ READ MORE ]
If you have any interest in web UI you have certainly already seen the Yahoo! User Interface Blog, but let me be the millionth person to say how awesome it is. Yahoo!’s Design Patterns Library (Creative Commons Attribution-By license, sweet!) and User Interface Library (BSD open source license) are going to be amazingly helpful. I like [ READ MORE ]
Since most of our team went snowboarding yesterday and since we only had five players for the game tonight, I wasn’t expecting too much. It was a pretty tight game in the first half. I think we were tied at the end of it with 41 each. By the end of the third quarter we [ READ MORE ]
Rachel and I went snowboarding with a group from my work yesterday. It was the first time either of us had ever tried the sport. Rachel has been skiing before and the most I have ever done on the snow before is sit on a tube. Snowboarding was fun but painful. I had a few hard [ READ MORE ]
In case you missed last week’s State of the Union, like me, catch it here. Even if you did see it, I suggest you watch it again. [ READ MORE ]
Do not forget that the season finale of Arrested Development is on tonight (along with 3 other new episodes). I know it means you have to miss the Olympics opening ceremony, but it is worth it. [ READ MORE ]
Rachel and I went to see Jeff Tweedy last night at the McDonald Theatre in downtown Eugene. He played a good range of songs and overall the show was really fun. The crowd was a little bit too talkative for my likes, but that’s just a detail. [ READ MORE ]
Chris Shiflett has more info on the PHP Easter Eggs I wrote about earlier. I find it very humorous that he uses 37signals as his example site for the demo. 37signals has been receiving a lot of press recently for all the work with Ruby on Rails. [ READ MORE ]