January 2011
15 posts
Badge of Shame →
cameronmoll:
Jeremy Keith’s thoughts on the W3C HTML5 logo unveiling:
What we have here is a deliberate attempt to further blur the lines between separate technologies that have already become intertwingled in media reports.
Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mind if marketers and journalists use HTML5 to mean everything under the sun, but I expect working web developers to be able to keep specs...
Several of these logos are just too creative for me.
– (via clientsfromhell)
Legal smoke and mirrors
clientsfromhell:
“You freelancers all hide behind legal smoke and mirrors. What has ‘minimum wage’ got to do with anything?”
A Cycle Commuter: Tax Disc Nailed to my Forehead →
acyclecommuter:
On Monday, a message was posted on Facebook that wound me up. Not an unusual occurrence and one of the reasons I regularly cull and block ‘friends’. She wrote that it made her happy that her dad ‘hates cyclists with a passion’. Four others people had ‘liked’ the comment. Sorely tempted as I was to…
Volkside | Introducing Wirify: The web as... →
Wirify is a bookmarklet that lets you turn any web page into a wireframe in one click.
The Square Grid - A simple CSS framework for... →
Like the look of this.
Ruby on Rails Guides →
On the tin.
@Font-Face in Firefox →
davidperel:
I got the following question recently and have been meaning to blog about the answer:
Q: Why does @font-face work correctly in Chrome and Safari but when I open my site in Firefox they do not work at all?
A: The reason @font-face doesn’t display correctly in Firefox is because they block any…
HTML5 Boilerplate TextMate Bundles →
darren131:
Hey Mac web front-end nerds — look here! I’ve created HTML5 Boilerplate TextMate Template Bundles.
I’m a big fan on the HTML5 Boilerplate created by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. If you don’t know what it is then I suggest you jump over to the official website and educate yourself.
To…
Wrapped up warm
sheffieldcyclechic:
-5 C and Sheffield cyclists still out and about.
I could get a stripper for that!
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I’m afraid I can’t afford the monthly figure at the moment.”
Me: “Oh no - that’s hourly.”
Client: ”I could get a stripper for that!”
Me: ”If she’s as good with Photoshop as I am, then she is the better deal.”