Interactive
Making Django Environmentally Friendly
If you're a Django developer, read on - if you've ever needed to use the Django database API or templating system from a standalone Python script, you've probably written a quick workaround or ugly hack to get the Django environment working properly. Here's a clean, robust, and re-usable way to do it.
A Solution to the Dropdown-Over-Flash-Content Flicker in Safari
When rendering dropdown navigation over Flash content in Safari, I encountered an unsightly and experience-compromising flicker. Here's my solution.
My Script Has Been Flipped: A Pocket Guide to Actionscript 3.0
Flash is growing up fast, and quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with. It is our responsibility as developers to roll with the changes, but be prepared to learn some new tricks as you traverse the path from Actionscript 2.0 to Actionscript 3.0.
Web 2.0: Lessons learned from Web 1.0
The Internet was scary in 2001. The Internet is more advanced and less scary in 2007. In 1998, the dotcom boom, I was a fresh-faced college graduate living in the big city of New York. I had been on a computer before, so I easily landed a job in the dotcom industry. My first job...
Primetime social media laugh lines fall flat
Early in the network premiere week, it looks like the sitcom writers have discovered social media. Prime time characters are now talking about blogs, their MySpace pages and Google alerts. You’d think this would open up interesting new plot lines or story angles. Not so.
Web Language
The language you develop your Web site in doesn't matter, you’re going to have to redo it in a few years anyway. When clients come to our firm for interactive recommendations they generally have a lot of ideas. The interactive world is scary. There are a lot of acronyms.
Web Standards: Accessibility - What You May Not Have Considered
Accessibility has become an increasingly popular buzzword in the world of web development. Its principles should drive all modern website design, but the reasons why they should may be more significant than you might first think.
Web Standards: Better Browsers - Brighter Future
Developers write web page code that works with standards-compliant browsers and then they painstakingly write fixes or "hacks" for the code (in a bizarre and contrived fashion) to get the pages working in IE. There's hope on the horizon though.
Web Standards: Why Won't This Nerd Stop Saying "CSS?"
Have you ever had the distinct pleasure of listening to a web development nerd ramble on about why your website needs to use CSS and XHTML? Did you find your mind wandering or eyes glazing over when he went on and on about W3C standards? Don't worry - this happens all the time.
