Not really a web-related post, but I've had a pretty bad day and need to unwind. I haven't written a list like this in a long time, which is something I used to do quite often on my old blog, and quite enjoy.
Read more...The other night I noticed two bright stars in the sky, the only ones visible at that stage, in close proximity to the moon. I thought it looked pretty cool and thought nothing else of it. Turns out, they were Venus and Jupiter! I'm still amazed to to think I could see a planet 540 million miles away with the naked eye.
Earlier this month, I was invited to speak at the Excellence In Local Government Customer Service 2008 conference in Sydney.
Read more...Mad Web Skills were lucky enough to have the opportunity to build the new website for Bruce Mactier Building Designers.
Read more...In the "you learn something new every day" category, comes this. I just found out that when working with php, you can use block commenting (like /*this*/) in the middle of a line of code. For example, if you have something like this:
$debug = 'really cool ';
echo 'This is my '.$debug.'script!';
... you can remove your debug display by commenting it out mid-line like this:
$debug = 'really cool ';
echo 'This is my './*$debug.*/'script!';
Now, this may already be obvious to everyone else, but I thought this was pretty handy to know.
At WDS08 I discussed using Javascript to create games with Miles Eftos, who created a version Super Mario Bros in Javascript. Matt Wescott has gone one better to create a ZX Spectrum emulator in JavaScript. Now, how about a C64 emulator? :-)
I first saw lead Django developer, Adrian Holovaty, speak brilliantly at Web Directions 07 about how to present data more effectively. Now, I've just learned that he is also an awesome guitarist! Also he's a fan of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Ahhh... Now it all makes sense.
Day 2 was brilliant straight off the bat. Apparently, Jeff Veen gave a very good presentation at the 2005 conference, which unfortunately was before my conference-going time.
Read more...Web Directions is over for another year, so here is my annual brain-dump of interesting tidbits from the sessions I attended this year. I'll try to be a little more brief than in previous years.
Read more...Today's workshop, "Javascript: The Good Parts" was run by Douglas Crockford, a very clever guy who is part of the committee organising the next version Javascript.
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