Last week I was afforded the opportunity to go to An Event Apart Boston, a conference I’ve wanted to attend for a few years now. I attribute most of what I know to the fine folks that run with that group, including Zeldman, Dan Cerderholm, Ethan Marcotte, and Luke Wroblewski, all of whom would be speaking. Now that the dust has settled, the photos have been posted, a my notes have been typed up, I’m ready to talk about what I’ve learned.
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GeekTool Desktop, originally uploaded by jcasabona.
Did this up using Geektool and an awesome Atari background. It was featured on Appleviews last month.
Postcard #001, originally uploaded by jcasabona.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to get better at type/color combinations. I’m going to try to do one postcard a week. Here’s the first one.
It uses the lyrics from a song I’ve been listening to a lot lately, “Roll Away Your Stone” by Mumford & Sons
Good to Hear from You 2, originally uploaded by jcasabona.
Saw this at the Sheraton Long Island Hotel. I love the color scheme and typography.
Recently I launched a couple of websites using WordPress and instead of using a temp directory for testing/client review, I used a plugin & theme instead. Using this technique I didn’t have to worry about moving directories, changing the WordPress directory/blog URLs, Â or checking image sources in posts. Here’s how I did it.
Recently, I made it practice to keep my most important web development resources in my bookmarks bar in Google Chrome (which is awesome, because I also use Bookmark Sync). These aren’t my development tools of course (Coda on Mac, Notepad++ and Filezilla on PC, Photoshop on both), these are online resources I use on a regular basis. Click on to see them!
These are the three sides of the project triangle- Good, Fast, and Cheap- and these three sides are things that every client wants. But, there are trade-offs to each one, and many people outside the development world don’t see that. The catch is you can only pick two.
It’s no secret that I love the show Home Improvement, especially if you know me personally or follow me on Twitter. As a freelancer I have the luxury of watching it everyday in the middle of the afternoon, and I got to thinking- there is a lot programmers and web developers can learn from Tim Taylor and his antics.
I hadn’t realized it, but next month will be 2 and a half years since my last redesign, which is considerably longer than my previous time between designs; I was young and impressionable and didn’t know what I wanted. But now something is different. My needs in 2007 were different than my needs now. Then, this was just a place for blog entries (and the occasional trying out a new web dev trick). Now information sharing has increased 10 fold. I have shared thoughts and links on Facebook, Google Reader, Twitter, and here. The new design needs to reflect that, especially since my day-to-day blogging has decreased with the advent of Twitter. I present to you: Info Overload. If you’re in a feed reader, click on through.
A few weeks ago my friend Mary came to me with an idea for a new website; one in the same breadth as FML and Texts from Last Night, but for “That’s What She Said” jokes. A couple weeks and some quick coding later and I we give you Best That’s What She Said!, a place where you can share your favorite “That’s What She Said” moments with the world. Aside from the utterly hilarious innuendo that will undoubtedly come from the site, it was a nice practice in JQuery coding for me.
Most of the home page uses JQuery to post and call the newest moments, and the voting also makes use of JQuery. I actually found it easy to use and modify. Since it’s really flashy Javascript, I’m glad it follows the tradition of Javascript in being able to Google most of what you need. That’s not to say it’s all written for you, but there is a nice base for you to start with. I’ll be sure to integrate more JQuery into future sites.
Anyway, check out the site- any feedback is much appreciated! I can’t believe I went all the way* without making a that’s what she said joke!
* That’s what She Said
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