Barring any (more) unforeseen changes to our schedule, Michelle and I should be nearing Sioux Falls, SD this time tomorrow. We’re hoping in the car tomorrow evening and heading ...
The official, touted-by-Apple SDK for creating iPhone apps uses web-oriented languages like (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Since Apple made this SDK public, some developers (including my employer) have jumped ...
For the past five weeks or so, your friends at Blue Flavor have been hard at work on a set of web app targeted at iPhone users. These small apps ...
Today, while venturing into the usually painful-to-read comments at Gizmodo, I ran across a real gem. A reader dropped one of the best analogies I’ve heard in a very ...
I’m excited to have been asked to come and speak on web typography at Webmaster Jam Session in Dallas, September 21st and 22nd. I’d heard nothing but great ...
A year ago, I created LOST-Theories.com as one of my first Django projects and released the source code, with the idea that anyone interested in Django could use ...
I’m really excited to be going to Europe for the first time. I’ll be leaving this Friday for a week in London. My real reason for going, of ...
In our continued effort to serve the local Lawrence community, we at the Journal-World have just launched one of our biggest projects in quite a while. We call it Marketplace ...
Over the past several months, I’ve received quite a few e-mails and other “hellos” from web designers, developers, and similar in Lawrence or the surrounding areas. Seems there’s ...
When Ludwig Wendzich, a high school student in New Zealand asked me some questions as part of a project he is doing for a design class, I was happy to ...
I’m back in Lawrence after a long trip down to Austin with Matt, Nathan, and Michelle. As per usual, SXSW interactive was a blast. Also as per usual, it ...
Lately, my co-worker and friend Nathan Borror and I have had some discussions about what I like to call appropriation. You might call it remixing or influence, or you might ...
Back in June of 2006, I created LOST-theories.com, one of my first Django-powered sites. Because it seemed like it might be useful for people who were trying to ...
Shortly after I first integrated my Flickr photos into jeffcroft.com (using Flickr’s awesome API), the photo sharing site added geocoding features, letting members tag photos with latitude and ...
This past weekend, the RSS feed for Steve Smith’s great Ordered List blog decided to tell me a whole bunch of items were new, when they really weren’t ...
Earlier today, I sat at work with one more IRC channel open than usual. I was in Macrumors’ channel for live coverage of today’s Macworld keynote speech by Steve ...
Because this seems to confuse a lot of people, and because I just did the research while buying a new HDTV, here’s a simple guide to video resolutions.
Sure, I’ll play this game like everyone else. I’m more excited about this particular Macworld than I have been in quite a while, primarily because it seems as ...
What it is: 2006 is over. I’m not sure I’m happy about this. 2006 proved to be the single best year of my life (possibly excepting 1995, when ...
Let me get this out of the way upfront: It’s not done.
That having been said, I’ve relaunched my site on an entirely new codebase, and given it ...
First things first: It’s four in the morning, and I’m still up. Please bear that in mind while reading this short post advocating (gasp!) a non-standard, proprietary format ...
Tonight I read Time Magazine’s forum piece entitled The Future of Newspapers, in which several big-wigs talk about what comes next for the newspaper industry — and found myself alternately ...
I’m heading off to Vegas early Tuesday morning for a vacation with the family (and girlfriend, as well). I know, it’s an odd place to spend Thanksgiving. But ...
A topic of conversation here at jeffcroft.com in recent weeks has been the need to educate the consumers of our services — the clients — on exactly what it is we ...
All my life I’ve been told I should vote. I’ve been told it’s my duty and obligation to vote. I’ve been told to rock the vote ...
While I don’t spend much time acting as a musician these days, I did once study music in college and I was a particularly big music theory nerd. Despite ...
With work on Pro CSS Techniques winding down, I’m starting to have a bit more spare time on my hands. Don’t get me wrong — I’m still busy ...
There was a time, not all that long ago, when making a professional website was not an especially complicated thing to do. The web consisted basically of images and HTML ...
Working in the online news media industry, I got into a lot of conversations about content management. Turns out it’s a tricky problem to solve. There are a lot ...
Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs:
A few days ago, Andrei Herasimchuk (whom I consider a friend and admire quite a lot) posted an open letter to John Warnock, CEO of ...
Four days later, my previous post on accessibility continues to generate a lot of discussion. That’s a good thing. Unfortunately (and really, unsurprisingly), some of the more zealous members ...
There’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while but have a been hesitant to post, for fear of it being taken the wrong way, and fear of ...
While rumors swirl around so-called Phones, Mac Pros, new iPods, media center Macs, and MacBook Pro upgrades, there’s really only one thing I’m terribly interested hearing about at ...
Since it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything to encourage my reputation as one of the Internet’s more vocal purveyors of Free Shit™, I thought ...
I am not a journalist. Then again, I’m not a programmer and that didn’t stop me from writing about Django, so what the hell, right? Despite not being ...
Over the past couple of weekends, I put together a totally-for-fun site related to ABC’s hit TV show, LOST. It’s called LOST-theories.com, and it came about ...
Several people have asked me about setting up Django on Dreamhost, so I thought I’d throw together a quick tutorial.
Although I’ve chosen to run my Django application ...
The process of managing the link roll on the front page of my site (now archived in the links section) is something I’ve changed several times.
On Thursday, the ...
In the 48 hours since I launched the new version of this site, I’ve been inundated with questions about Django, the Python-based web application framework I used to build ...
I’ve never rebooted before. Oh, I’ve redesigned, but never on May 1st, and never as part of an official Internet-wide ordeal. But this year, the timing seemed right ...
Which of the following is not a component of “web design?”
Hopefully I’ll get this finished quickly, as I’m typing it on a realitlvey short layover in Dallas on my way home from Austin. But, I figured if I ...
After my nightmare experience with 1&1 Internet, I have switched my site over to Dreamhost. Thanks to all of you who weighed in with your thoughts. If you’re ...
I have successfully installed and used the new version of Front Row on both a G4 Mac mini and Powerbook G4 and managed to view media (music, photo, movies) stored ...
After hearing of lots of people winning, I switched to Blingo for my searches about three weeks ago. Today, I won. Just a $10 gift certificate to iTunes — nothing terribly ...
Within the first few hours of my new job at World Online, I was tossed into the unfamiliar land of Django templates. In fact, the idea of using a template ...
Just about every self-respecting Mac geek I know is head over heels for Quicksilver, the launcher-cum-everything system extension. Now, I want to be like you all.
I know Quicksilver kicks ...
This is honestly one of the saddest moments of my life.
Whoever made this, I hate you.