…well, at least I found them interesting. Your mileage may vary.

• Typographer’s Glossary
  All you ever wanted to know about typography, and more. I really need to read through this in its entirety at some point.
• Using Modernizr…
  Modernizr is a javascript library that detects CSS and HTML5 functionality. Neat way to develop a page that doesn’t waste resources on things that won’t show up anyways.
• HTML5 Async Scripts
  I need to test this and see which browsers this helps on, but if speeding up sites is this easy, that is a win for everyone. (Or maybe I should have kept this a secret to make my skills in more demand…Meh – not my style.)
• How Cowbird Transforms Storytelling on the Web
  Never heard of cowbird before but they have a pretty cool presentation.
• No ‘pull-to-refresh’ in native iOS apps
  The pull-to-refresh function was patented by Tweetie, which was later purchased by Twitter. Hope they don’t go after indie developers with big lawyers!

Use of cats stopped in Survival Flight training
Instead of cats, they are using Robots and pigs. PETA says pigs shouldn’t be used either. PETR had no comment, mostly because it doesn’t exist…yet. #RobotsHaveRightsToo

Can a Software Update Quench Kindle Firestorm?
The Kindle Fire is selling big, but some buyers are not satisfied. This update is supposed to help. #SlowBurn

Google’s Response to Siri is Codenamed Majel, Could be released by End of Year
I predict this will result in another lawsuit by Apple.
I also predict that the Washington Apple Commission will someday be the target of a lawsuit by Apple. #DontCopyUs!

Firefox is too big to link on 32-bit Windows
This is why I, a huge Firefox proponent from the beginning, abandoned Firefox entirely a little over two years ago. #Bloat

I remember when Chrome first appeared. It was novel and minimalist and I remember installing it, trying it out and then going right back to Firefox. A few years later, after Firefox seemed bloated and slow, I gave it another look and never looked back (except to test website compatibility).

It appears that others have done the same:

Chrome reportedly leapfrogged Firefox during the last week of October to first week of November with the total of 25.69 percent of global market share, compared to Firefox’s 25.25%. It is also worth noting that based on the graph provided by Statcounter, Google Chrome’s market share is increasing, while Mozilla Firefox and the market leader Internet Explorer’s market share’s are decreasing. The data suggest that more internet users are switching from IE and Firefox to Google’s web browser.

Safari seems stuck down at 6%. I know I use Chrome on my Mac also…I just don’t care for Safari for some unknown reason.

Here we go again…

Fully Self-Employed.  I’ve done this before, although we were supporting fewer kids in College back in those days.  Love the flexbility, but my boss can be a real jerk, making me work overtime whenever there is something to do.  Oh yea, and the SE Taxes…

At least I will have time to explore some interesting ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a while.  Oh, and time to fix this dreadful placeholder website.

Just finished up redesigning my 4th site in the past 5 weeks (along with 4 relocations and 2 migrations). I love starting with a brand new template and coding something very clean and neat, however sometimes it is just better to update existing templates. Anyone who has reworked templates for a major set of changes knows that sometimes it feels like things are messy and out of control.  Especially with stylesheets.

I still have not found a decent way to order classes in a stylesheet that makes any sense (and is maintainable) but search functions make that passable. However, I still cannot help but feel like the stylesheet is messy since I really have no idea which classes I’ve obsoleted vs. which classes are still used by some obscure template I never touched.  I’ve always been meaning to find a better solution to this then my usual method: <i>leave them all there – just in case</i>.  A clean and tidy stylesheet reduces server load and is easier to maintain.

So instead of doing the work I was supposed to be doing today, I goofed off and coded a little stylesheet analysis program.  The idea is pretty simple: Read the rest of this entry »

We started with the iPhone App Store, added the Android Marketplace and now Google announces a new one: The Google App Marketplace. These apps will be part of Google’s cloud (think Google Docs).

So much to learn, so little time. (At least for us independent developers.)

Wikipedia topics are usually dominated by the fanatic with the most time to spare, which is why I don’t rely on Wikipedia when the matter is both controversial and important.

Jerry Pournelle