Every company of significant size that we work with has a developed a certain amount of red tape that needs to be waded through to complete a project. The amount varies by organization but often doing the same job for a company with hundreds of employees costs us 4 or 5 times as much as [...]
Archive: November 2008
Over the last few years Google has added product after product. Each of these products offers some variant or enhancement to their main business which is indexing the web and archiving data. Each one of these Google products catalogs and stores user information in some capacity. I have never been particularly concerned with how my [...]
I have been playing with jQuery more and more. I like MooTools but with jQuery there is even more pre-developed plugins and code that can be leveraged. Here is set of a few good examples. I am going to have a play with both the CrossSlide and setting equal heights on some projects I am [...]
Today I read an article from the New York Times Magazine online. It was a discussion between Bengamin Palmer the C.E.O. of the Barbarian Group, Lars Bastholm the Creative Officer at AKQA, and Robert Rasmussen the Executive Creative Driector of the Nike account at R/GA. In the article they’re discussing the death of TV advertising [...]
Yesterday my mom was asking me what I want for Christmas. Once upon a time it was very easy to generate a list of desired items but now that I have gotten older I have just about everything I need and if there is something I don’t have I buy it. That is why The [...]
When loading AJAX requests on website you frequently see a variety of animated loading graphics. Some are spinning circles, some are progress bars, and some are random but all are a pain in the butt to make. Awhile back, Sheldon tipped me off to a great site called ajaxload.info which automatically generates a number of [...]
Yesterday Google launched their new SearchWiki feature. I don’t know that this will be particularly useful for me as most my searches are one-time searches but if you make regular searches on a topic you can now personalize the search results so they show the results you would like to see in the order you [...]
Today I had to parse a WordPress RSS feed for display on a customers website. The basic goal was to show the latest blog postings on the customer’s homepage without them having to manually feed in the data. I have done this before using some of the great XML tools in PHP 5 that make [...]
There are a number of helpful in-brwoser web development tools out there. I have used Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar for quite some time. Recently, I have added some additional features like YSlow and Live HTTP Headers which have proved to be helpful. I know there are a number of other tools out there [...]
I came across this great presentation by Seth Godin this morning where he is talking about marketing companies in our cluttered marketplace. In this presentation he makes some fantastic points. I particularly enjoyed his description of the shift in marketing that occurred in with the internet revolution. In this portion he talks about old businesses [...]
