It seems that Microsoft’s biggest critics, bloggers, are now being asked to write what ‘People-ready business’ means to them as a way to bolster the phrase and Microsoft’s association with business. This strikes me as a flailing attempt to garner support in people’s minds to think of Microsoft as a business software company. Yes, they own the Office productivity market. Yes, they own the OS market. No they are not ‘People-ready business’. (and no I am not going to link to their site!) (more…)
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setAttribute, a gallery, IE, and hours of my life wasted
One of my favorite books is Dom Scripting by Jeremy Keith. I’ve used his concepts for a gallery I designed for my dad’s portfolio. Well in the process of making updates to that site I ran into a problem. I wanted to display wider images than normal for one of the pages, to not have to reduce the images down to fit on the page. I turned on scrolls for the overflow adding to the CSS rule for the gallery div. That’s when it all went south. (more…)
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The Empire Strikes Back
Hello again and welcome to the Microsoft show, the greatest show on earth. Where the marketing department seems to have a bigger budget than the developers. It seems now that they aren’t pleased that so many people are waiting until the big bugs are worked out before upgrading to Vista. They are now about to launch a new marketing attack to coerce consumers that everything is ok, they don’t need to wait for the service packs. Do they really think that jedi mind tricks work on consumers?I won’t rehash the article but I would like to articulate why people are legitimately hesitant; no two people can agree on whether or not it is worth upgrading! (more…)
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When it rains it pours
I’ve been stacked up lately with contract work. It’s nice to have the extra, but man some nights I would like to just like to kick back. Oh well, no rest for the wicked. Beyond the training development that I am working on at HP as my day job, and the work I just completed for Strukture.com, here are the projects on my plate:
- A new Diablo Cup t-shirt design
- A minor site redesign for 1031it.com
- Updates for ThomasCory.com
- The FarishtaMakeup.com site design
- Updates to my site for a gallery, and changes to my portfolio
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Cracked Titanium Frame
It’s officially over. I finally cracked my Performance Titanium frame after all these years. I put a lot of miles on it and it was a great frame while it lasted. The weld on the drive side seat stay, right behind the seat clamp cracked, and the crack was spreading across the tube. Oh well. Performance had a lifetime guarantee on the frame so I brought it in for a replacement. (more…)
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Damn the Standards…Full speed ahead!
I was browsing through some sports coverage and ran across this link. It’s an amazing (read: bad) site that ignores all the standard rules of engagement in web design and development. (more…)
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All alone in the world…
I know some people are reading my blog…but no one but the spammers are making comments. I guess I’m not controversial enough. Stay tuned.
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Click to Activate Flash Still an Issue?
It’s amazing to me that sites that rely on Flash for their main navigation have not taken the steps to eliminate the “Click to activate and use this control” messages from their sites. If you haven’t seen this message before you must be avoiding flash sites. To recap: Eolas has a patent dispute with Microsoft, forcing them to make activeX controls require users to click the “control” before they can interact with it. Annoying to say the least. If you want to read more go here. Needless to say this article was inspired because of the staggering number of sites I’ve run across in the last month that have not incorporated the JavaScript solutions that are available. Here are the favorites:
If you own, or manage a site that uses Flash as a navigation element, fix this, please. Better yet…use CSS navigation instead. As much as I like Flash, does it have to be used for everything?
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Google Analytics Beta
I was just visiting Google Analytics and noticed a fresh new interface. The graphs are bolder, and the data seems to be better organized. All good news for everyone using this free Google service. Oh, pay no attention to the dismal traffic that my pitiful excuse for a web site is currently drawing…unless you want to spread the word to bring me all kinds of traffic. -
Product Design Flaws
It is with a note of sadness that I must report that my perfectly operating Suzuki SV650S on it’s approach to four years of faithful service has started to show signs of weakness. Not mechanical failures per say, but design failures. While they are very reliable motorcycles there are three specific flaws that I have run across with this bike.
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