Archive for April, 2008
Design Books for Developers
Designing the Obvious is a book I ran into at Books a Million a few months ago. Usually when I head out to bookstores I grab a handful of books and end up scanning over them for tips, maybe reading a few relevant chapters, then putting it back. Very rarely do I end up reading [...]
Harnessing GameFaqs with Ruby on Rails and Hpricot
One of the things that’s most annoying when making sites that rely on external data is keeping them in sync. Although this usually means importing some sample data during development, eventually you’ll have to do it the right way. This evening I hit that point on a project where I needed to get a list [...]
CSS Naked Day #3
Once again it’s CSS Naked Day, a time to strip your site bare and see how good it looks without all that CSS. If you’re using Wordpress, you can grab the CSS Naked Day Plugin and not have to worry about disturbing your layouts once the day is through. So far I’ve been extremely happy [...]
BarCampOrlando After Party
Izea put on a great (open bar) after party dubbed Geek Out ‘08 that bogged down their office with wet geeks. I was completely soaked from the knees down, but enjoyed geeking out in both games and tech talk. They had 2 entire rooms devoted to Rock Band, and others for Wii Sports, Smash Brothers [...]
@BarCampOrlando Rundown!
No one is going to debate the fact that BarCampOrlando lived up to it’s namesake this time around (ok, so there wasn’t much Foo there, but details deails). Both venues for the event, Slingapours and One Eyed Jacks, had plenty of room for the events with room to spare. Power via extension cords and squid [...]
@BarCampOrlando
I’m downtown in Orlando at BarCamp and so far overwhelmed at both the quality of the venues and the community! As someone who doesn’t trek downtown all that often, the area on Wall Street between Slingapours and One Eyed Jacks is an excellent social atmosphere. Kudos to the organizers for keeping things going.
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