What isn’t better with a fried egg on top?
As a follow up to her post earlier this week, Tiff has a new blog post that details how we estimate potential projects. It also goes hand-in-hand with a pricing guide page that Keith posted today. Visit site »
Nathan Smith gets input from several buddies of mine, including Anton Peck, Jared Christensen, Patrick Haney, and Jenna Marino, on their preference for either Fireworks or Photoshop. The comments are definitely an interesting read, so I encourage you to check it out. I think it’s important to keep some perspective, though: the only people who really care whether you use Fireworks or Photoshop are other designers. Clients couldn’t care less. Debating the pros and cons can be fun for us design nerds, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter what you use — keep that in mind. Visit site »
Suddenly it seems like respected web designers everywhere are starting to catch on to what I’ve been saying for a couple years now: established standards and best practices are great, but they are simply a means to an end, and we should always challenge them in cases where it seems like a different means to the same end might be more effective. “Perfect” can be, at times, the enemy of “good”.
I don’t necessarily agree with everything in Martin’s article, but I’m glad to see other big names beginning to jump on the pragmatic, but still standards-oriented, approach. Visit site »
If this is accurate, I can only say a big congrats to all my awesome friends at Digg. You guys totally deserve it. Woohoo! Visit site »
Quite possibly the most beautiful house I’ve ever seen. Want. (But why are there no photos of the kitchen?!) Visit site »
Or by it’s OTHER alternate title: “You might not get laid, but at least you’ll have more than two dates with her.”
Teach your newborn how to survive on the Internet. Hilarious. Visit site »
Absolutely! :)
Him: “Dude, Rails had that in 1.2.” Me: “But Django isn’t to 1.0 yet, so technically we had it first.”
That depends. Did you buy your electric-powered purse in an effort to “Go Green?” If so, you win.
You have waived your right to ever call someone else a geek. Ever.
ESPN is counting down the 50 best college hoops programs in the nation this week, and they’ve just posted the first installment (numbers 50-41). They’re using a scoring system in which schools get points for various accomplishments, such as winning the NCAA tournament, making the final four, winning their conference, and so forth. Fun stuff.
I’m anxious to see where Kansas winds up on the list. Based on the point system, I should think it’ll be pretty high — top five at least, and possibly top two. By my off-the-top-of-my-head memory, only Duke has more NCAA titles (three, to KU’s two), but Kansas has more conference championships and All-Americans. Besides Kansas and Duke, I’d expect to see UNC, Kentucky, and Arizona rounding out the top five. Syracuse, UConn, Florida, UCLA and Michigan State should also be in the top ten. That is, if my memory is anywhere near accurate. Visit site »
Tiffani’s short and sweet post about a potential client’s budget (as it relates to early talks with an agency about your project) has kicked off a nice discussion on the matter. Visit site »
John Allsop wonders aloud whether or not most iPhone native apps should be web apps, instead. Although I don’t really share John’s lack of enthusiasm for native iPhone apps in general, I definitely think he has a point. Many of the best apps on the iPhone are simply interfaces to web content. Many of them don’t offer any real advantages over a similar web app. Developers would be wise to still consider the web app direction as a possibility, unless they specifically need to access native functionality such as the camera or location data — web apps are more compatible, more distributable, and arguably easier to develop. Visit site »
September 8th, 2008, 9 AM in London, England
Kevin from howiworkdaily.com had my good friend and design hero Nathan Borror on the line for a 30 minute podcast. They two discuss Django, Basic Apps, playgroundblues.com, the iPhone, and more. It’s a really good listen.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll take the opportunity to say it again: Nathan Borror is absolutely the most underrated web professional on the Internet. He’s quite possibly the most talented person I’ve ever worked with. His attention to detail and breadth of knowledge across all aspects of web work is surpassed only by his sympathy for the user. I know just about every amazing designer in this industry, and Nathan would still be the first person I’d call if I were hiring.
And, he’s a great fucking guy, too.
(Nathan, you owe me dinner, or something.) Visit site »
Brian Rosner has a quick and informative screencast on how to migrate your Django model code for the newforms-admin branch, which has recently been merged to trunk. I migrated all the code for Savoy and several personal apps tonight. It’s quite easy, if a bit tedious and time consuming. The much more fine-grained control over the admin interface is a real boon from the old way. Congrats to everyone involved in newforms-admin for finally getting it done! Visit site »
Chaning massive ammounts of Django code to work with newforms-admin. Django 1.0, here we come!
The DjangoCon site is up, and features talks from Guido Van Rossum, Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Willison, and more. Looks like it should be a great event.
Also, “Welcome to DjangoCon” sounds a lot like “Welcome to ZomboCom,” to me. Visit site »
Amazing still photos of a Leopard taking a crocodile — a scenario not believed to have ever been observed before. Visit site »
Walkscore has been one of my favorite sites since it come out. The site lets you enter an address and find out how “walkable” it is. Now, they’ve released a list of the most walkable cities in America, and even tell you which are the most walkable neighborhoods in each city. Visit site »
A nice-looking API for adding heat maps as overlays on a Google map. Visit site »
I’m afraid it doesn’t look good. They offered us tickets to the 8:30 non-IMAX, but I think IMAX was done for the night.
IMAX projector broken. No Dark Knight for us. Did get two free passes for movies, though.
At Olathe IMAX for Dark Knight.