1 February 2008
Everybody’s got football fever with Super Bowl XLII coming up. If it’s caught you and you’ve got some decent Web chops, we’re hiring. There’s a few more at our employment site (warning: cruddy third-party app—search in the Digital Media division). Of course, if you really want to get in, you’ll go through me.
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11 February 2007
For the most part, working for a design firm is a joy. New projects are varied, and new problems emerge with each. You meet and worth with myriad people. One client brought each person in our office a dozen eggs from her farm. Another took us for beers when we deployed his site. The worst [...]
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11 January 2007
Today [PPK rounded up several recent posts debating Javascript Libraries][ppk]. I defended JS libraries a few weeks ago, but I feel the need to expound. They get a bad rap, and I think its undeserved–especially as the expectations of Web users increase. [ppk]: “QuirksBlog: Again JavaScript libraries”
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21 December 2006
In [Six things that suck about the Web in 2006][six things], Roger Johansson of 456 Berea Street complains about [six things]: Overuse of JavaScript frameworks/libraries. Back to the 90’s, baby, except they were called DHTML libraries that time around. What is it with people learning a JavaScript library instead of learning to write JavaScript? It’s [...]
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10 November 2006
I believe I’ve said it a [couple][gripe1] [times][gripe2]: I hate Flash. Hate the UI. Hate corruptable binary format. Hate that you can’t make batch changes. I could go on; I won’t. Very slowly, another vector based format has been creeping into tools and browsers—[Scalable Vector Graphics][SVG] (SVG)—and it’s very promising. But there are still some [...]
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