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Credits: @nicksherman

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:47:00 +0200

Credits: @nicksherman

Apple Zombies

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:33:45 +0200

Apple Zombies

"You shouldn’t make HTML/CSS (websites) mimic native apps — you just shouldn’t."

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:06:23 +0200

“You shouldn’t make HTML/CSS (websites) mimic native apps — you just shouldn’t.”

- Andy Clarke (@Malarkey)

I’m really looking forward to those gestures

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:42:59 +0100

I’m really looking forward to those gestures:

This will really advance the use of the trackpad. I’d like to have it now!

Typography Deconstructed Letterpress Poster

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:23:15 +0100

Typography Deconstructed Letterpress Poster

"The more fragile access to your content becomes, the less likely you’re able to make money off of..."

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:39:35 +0100

“The more fragile access to your content becomes, the less likely you’re able to make money off of it, the less likely your writers will get paid what they should be. The implications of extending that are significant. Sooner or later, Gawker will reverse their decision on using hashbangs—I guarantee it. I just hope that they’ll do so before more sites follow their poor example and start eroding the foundation of their own business in an attempt at being “hip, modern and cool” as well.”

- How <del>Hashbangs</del> <ins>Poor Execution And Practices</ins> Break The Web, on FarukAt.eş

"Designing for the web is like building sand sculptures."

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:35:04 +0100

“Designing for the web is like building sand sculptures.”

- Dan Rubin (via simplebits)

wearethedigitalkids: “The advice I like to give young artists,...

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:07:50 +0100

wearethedigitalkids:

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”

-Chuck Close

Image from Wisdom

Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 Release Candidate

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:06:00 +0200

Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 Release Candidate:

Another release (candidate) from the Textpattern.com-Crew. Bringing many improvements and is a first step to a table less admin area. Rocks.

Happy retirement to The Carver: new logo courtesy of Philipp Schilling (aka belipe)
Optional image constant ihu for serving static images
Textpacks for distributing localised strings
Improved search ability with search modes “any” or “all”
New image tags: , , , , ,
New tags: , pimped to allow any/all/regex matches and now accept width/height attributes
File titles
Content type upgrade: URL-style /category and /author lists now possible for all of TXPs native types. Corresponding conditional tags upgraded too
New callbacks on the Images tab and more consistent API for shielding plugin authors from DB changes: article_format_info() and link_format_info()
New optional Start tab for dashboard plugins
No more ‘friendly’ Stylesheet editor. Stylesheets no longer BASE64-encoded in the database
Textile 2.2: support for notelists, definition lists, thead, tbody, table summary/caption, colgroups, new glyphs for fractions, plusminus and degrees symbol, plus performance improvements and bug fixes
Seemingly over-the-top semantic admin-side markup changes. Will be thinned in due course; please consult the forthcoming guidelines for maximising plugin and theme compatibility in future TXP versions
Inconsistent tag attributes renamed to conform
Author/meta tags can display real name or login name
Transparent pixels preserved in PNG/GIF thumbnails
Faster logins

A new version of Textile is out!

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:59:13 +0200

A new version of Textile is out!:

The fine folks at Textpattern have released the new version of Textile, the plain text semantic markup pseudo language that rocks.

Enabled UTF-8 characters in uppercased acronyms if Unicode compiled into PCRE
Fixed rendering bug if acronym title contains 3+ uppercase chars — thanks Ruud
Handle single quotes better if Unicode compiled into PCRE. Fixes Issue 26
Fixed double span class=”caps” in tables — thanks net-carver. Fixes Issue 61
Fixed backwards apostrophes after formatted text — thanks net-carver. Fixes Issue 71
Can now parse nested textile entities up to 5 deep — thanks net-carver. Fixes Issue 1
Table improvements: ** Added thead, tbody, tfoot support ** Added caption and summary support ** Added colgroup support ** Fixed ‘trailing whitespace after pipe character breaks table’ bug ** Empty table cells now permitted
Added self-link syntax — thanks net-carver
Added labelled auto-citation notelists — thanks net-carver / Destry
Added new glyphs for fractions (1/2), (1/4), (3/4), degrees (o) and plusminus (+/-) — thanks net-carver
Added class/ID/style attribute support for individual list items — thanks net-carver
Added Textile comments — thanks net-carver
Fixed: classes/IDs/Styles can no longer span multiple lines — thanks net- carver
Can now make footnote forward-linking optional using exclamation mark — thanks net-carver
Fixed duplicate ID bug in footnotes — thanks net-carver
Fixed link creation regex bug — thanks net-carver
Performance improvements in glyph handling and elsewhere
Some whitespace and code output layout prettification
Bumped version to 2.2 (because unofficial 2.1.x ports — primarily for Python — are floating round the ‘net)

Do you want to know more about Belgium? (by Jerome de Gerlache)

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:08:00 +0200

Do you want to know more about Belgium? (by Jerome de Gerlache)

World of Traffic Signs

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:29:07 +0200

World of Traffic Signs:

what to do when unserialize fails

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:43:40 +0200

Using PHP’s serialize function to serialize and array or object where some element is a string with UTF8 data creates the serialized string properly. However, unserialize function fails to unpack that data.

The solution I find to work (not sure if it’s perfect though) is to use mb_unserialize function (found in comments of PHP manual).

function mb_unserialize($serial_str) { 
    $out = preg_replace('!s:(\d+):"(.*?)";!se',   
    "'s:'.strlen('$2').':\"$2\";'", $serial_str ); 
    return @unserialize($out); 
}

Works as advertised if your database is not UTF-8, which should be the case.

"If Rule #1 is No Working on Weekends, Rule #2 is No Rigid Rules. Things will happen to interrupt the..."

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:35:43 +0200

“If Rule #1 is No Working on Weekends, Rule #2 is No Rigid Rules. Things will happen to interrupt the plan and you must be ready to react calmly and effectively. With that in mind, let’s review the elements of a perfect day of freelancing.”

- Dave Caolo: A Freelancer’s Schedule — Nice article about the schedule of a freelancer. It’s important to see how others do it.

Great writeup of the creation of the Ode Font, a...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:32:29 +0200

Great writeup of the creation of the Ode Font, a Fresh Start for a Broken Script by @martinplusfonts on @ilovetypography

http://ianstormtaylor.com/experiments/striped-shadow/ (via...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:00:13 +0200

http://ianstormtaylor.com/experiments/striped-shadow/ (via Dribbble - Striped Shadow by Ian Storm Taylor)

Live here: http://ianstormtaylor.com/experiments/striped-shadow/

human typography: “Type should move!” Very...

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:33:17 +0200

human typography: “Type should move!”

Very nice inspiration!

Hilfskonstruktionen für Helden (Workarounds for Winners) is an...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:44:00 +0200

Hilfskonstruktionen für Helden (Workarounds for Winners) is an article released in the German magazine t3n, covering workarounds for HTML5 and CSS3 in different browsers.

HTML5 und CSS sind in aller Munde, denn die beiden neuen Webstandards bieten Entwicklern spannende technologische Möglichkeiten. Da sie sich aber noch im Entwicklungsstadium befinden, ist die Implementierung in den Browsern bisher noch lückenhaft – auch bei den Teilen, die bereits als vollständig gelten. Wir zeigen, wie man sie dennoch heute schon flächendeckend einsetzen kann.

Freelance Freedom #170: Client Conspiracy Observed that, too!

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:14:14 +0200

Freelance Freedom #170: Client Conspiracy

Observed that, too!

The Problem with Facebook's "Places"

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:44 +0200

The Problem with Facebook's "Places":

They [Facebook] are slowly destroying independent web applications with boring versions that immediately win due to Facebook’s population (which at this point is the 3rd largest country on earth). There’s no demand for excellence. Just make sure the feature list keeps growing.

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Credits: @nicksherman

Apple Zombies

"You shouldn’t make HTML/CSS (websites) mimic native apps — you just shouldn’t."

I’m really looking forward to those gestures

Typography Deconstructed Letterpress Poster

"The more fragile access to your content becomes, the less likely you’re able to make money off of..."

"Designing for the web is like building sand sculptures."

wearethedigitalkids: “The advice I like to give young artists,...

Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 Release Candidate

A new version of Textile is out!

Do you want to know more about Belgium? (by Jerome de Gerlache)

World of Traffic Signs

what to do when unserialize fails

"If Rule #1 is No Working on Weekends, Rule #2 is No Rigid Rules. Things will happen to interrupt the..."

Great writeup of the creation of the ​O​d​e​ Font,​ ​a​...

http://ianstormtaylor.com/experiments/striped-shadow/ (via...

​​h​u​m​a​n​ ​t​y​p​o​g​r​a​p​h​y: “Type should move!” Very...

​Hilfskonstruktionen für Helden (Workarounds for Winners) is an...

Freelance Freedom #170: Client Conspiracy Observed that, too!

The Problem with Facebook's "Places"

Great writeup of the creation of the Ode Font, a...

human typography: “Type should move!” Very...

Hilfskonstruktionen für Helden (Workarounds for Winners) is an...