Entries tagged “Web Design/Programming”


Experiments with Cancelling Javascript Events

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 [...]

Rails is for slobs

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 [...]

New Look, new content, new … everything

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 [...]

10 Reasons why Flash should #@$%ing die

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 [...]

Doing something right

15 August 2005

RyanCannon.com has #1 listing on three search engines, huzzah!