1 September 2006
JavaScript suddenly feels like the new CSS. Inspired
by my new book co-written by one of my
web design idols as well as the work I’ve been doing for
one of our clients, I decided to run some quick tests
on canceling events with JavaScript, as it is one part of the
language that hasn’t received very much documentation, even [...]
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4 August 2006
<rant>
To me, the Ruby on Rails bandwagon is a streetcar that I habitually jump
onto and off of as I work. Every time I try to give up
PHP, I do so
by compromising the quality of the documents I produce.
Rails encourages you to create sloppy markup.
Without a doubt, the language does
a fantastic job at eliminating the [...]
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13 July 2006
In May of this year I made myself a promise. I looked at my schedule,
at my web site, and at my my life in general and realized I needed a
change. Since beginning grad school I had been running on fumes.
my whole life seemed fifteen minutes later than the rest of the world.
I stopped blogging, stopped [...]
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8 March 2006
I knew I was in for trouble when I took my job, I just didn’t realize how much. Working for a quirky, cool advertising agency in Ann Arbor in interactive production meant one thing: Flash. Ever since I had started reading about web standards and web programming, I had adhered to the basic mantra: “CSS-and-(X)HTML-are-best-because [...]
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15 August 2005
RyanCannon.com has #1 listing on three search engines, huzzah!
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