JeffCroft.com: Latest bookmarks

Space Miner

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:37:56 -0800

My good friend Laura Miner (who happens to be the wife of another good friend, Wilson Miner, now has a blog. It’s pretty and full of interesting content already. Until its recently-announced departure, Laura has been the Editor In Chief of JPG Magazine, so you might expect her blog to feature a lot of great photography — and you’d be right.

Visit site (http://lauraminer.com/)

EE Insider

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:30:14 -0800

From Ryan Irelan comes this great resource of Expression Engine tips, tutorials, screencasts, and the like.

Visit site (http://eeinsider.com/)

Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:29:59 -0800

RIP Freddie Hubbard. Absolutely in my top three or four favorite jazz trumpeters ever, Freddie was the guy who taught me the meaning of the word “out.” I’m sitting here, in the Indianapolis airport — his hometown — as I read this sad news. Fitting.

Visit site (http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/30/freddie.hubbard.obit/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)

Seattle P-I: It’s time to get angry about city’s response to snow

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:44:42 -0800

I agree completely with columnist Joel Connelly. I realize Seattle doesn’t get snow often, but the way eight inches of snow has paralyzed the city over the past week is, frankly, ridiculous. There was plenty of warning for the storm. There’s little excuse for the city not having been prepared, and there’s no excuse for roads like 34th street still not having been cleared, a week later. Seattle is the farthest-north major city in the United States, and despite what Seattlites will claim, it’s not coastal. It’s 100 miles inland. Is it really that unrealistic to imagine it could get eight inches of snow?

Visit site (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/393387_joel24.html)

NYTimes: Represent

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:17:11 -0800

Cool new app from The New York Times that lets New Yorkers keep tabs on what their elected officials are doing. It’s built on GeoDjango. Nice to see Django continue its massive penetration into the news and journalism worlds.

Visit site (http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/)

New York City in Photo-Realistic 3D Now in Google Earth

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:50:53 -0800

Yeah, that’s badass.

Visit site (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/12/new_york_city_in_photorealistic_3d.html)

Integrating Facebook Connect with Django in 15 minutes

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:31:25 -0800

Niiiiiice. I hate to say it, but OpenID may be dead.

Visit site (http://nyquistrate.com/django/facebook-connect/)

George Oates: Not quite what I had in mind.

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:49:59 -0800

George, the great designer that is responsible for the easy, fun, and beautifully simple work that has made Flickr what it is, has been laid off by Yahoo and company. This is her account of how that transpired. I don’t pretend to understand the ins and outs of business, but I don’t get how, even in the face of needing to lay some people off, you’d choose the high-profile, well-spoken, community-loved designer that gave your product its face. It’s a bit baffling. I’d trust that Yahoo knows what they’re doing, except, well — they haven’t shown they know what they’re doing for years.

I met George in London in 2007 and found her to be smart, funny, and downright sweet. And, of course, she’s incredibly talented, to boot. Good luck, George. You’ll land on your feet somewhere — and soon.

Visit site (http://george08.blogspot.com/2008/12/not-quite-what-i-had-in-mind.html)

Django snippets: Django template object jsonify

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:29:13 -0800

Simple, but very useful Django template tag.

Visit site (http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1250/)

Chiefs general manager Carl Peterson resigns

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:15:44 -0800

About f’ing time. Is Herm next?

Visit site (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3771725&campaign=rss&source=NFLHeadlines)

24 ways: Making Modular Layout Systems

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:35:18 -0800

Jason Santa Maria details the CSS framework he built to craft the beautiful layouts he uses on his blog. It happens to be very similar to what I’ve been using for sometime, and also similar to how Blueprint CSS handles layout. I’m glad to see more people getting on board with this kind of thing. CSS should be used to build layout systems, not individual layouts.

Visit site (http://24ways.org/2008/making-modular-layout-systems)

10 Webpage Design Lessons learned from a trip to Las Vegas… seriously!

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:04:31 -0800

Cute, and with good tips. I like it. Personally, I would have chosen another Vegas staple to demonstrate number six, “make it easy to enter.” But that’s just me.

Visit site (http://www.mgitsolutions.com/blog/2008/12/10-webpage-design-lessons-learned-from-a-trip-to-las-vegas-seriously/)

Ben&Ethan&Juliette&Jacob.

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:47:02 -0800

Love it.

Visit site (http://108.bigcartel.com/)

Online Advertising without Douchebaggery

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:50:57 -0800

> Say you’re EA sports, makers of the Tiger Woods videogame franchise. And you see a video on YouTube, where some kid is mocking you for a bug in the game that lets Tiger walk on water. Here’s exactly what you do.

Pretty funny, and smart, stuff.

Visit site (http://powazek.com/posts/1491)

POWER TO THE POSTER

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:07:36 -0800

User-submitted poster project which asks, “As a global citizen, what moves you?” There’s some great work in here, and it’s all downloadable and printable. Great for bare walls.

Visit site (http://www.powertotheposter.org/index.php)