Posts Tagged ‘listy.us’

phpScenario & Listy.us updates

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

First, phpScenario has been updated to 0.1.1 (change log here), so that’s cool. It helps when the library you release actually works, right?

Second, I’ve been posting some related tutorials in the project’s forums:

So, if you’re interested in split testing via php, I’d recommend checking the project and tutorials out.

Third, I’m finally getting started on the rewrite of Listy.us’s editor. Where the old editor was a single, sparsely-commented 1400-line javascript file, the new one is spread across several files using RequireJS, and uses QUnit for unit testing. It is, essentially, a project in itself, and I’m finding it much, much nicer to work with.

Listy.us is live, still a work in progress

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

For those that have been following my work by means other than my blog (twitter, facebook), you already know that my big project, www.listy.us, is alive and kicking. I’ve been meaning to write an actual blog post about it for some time, since it would seem I forgot to do that back in September when the site actually launched. It’s improved a lot since then, I think.

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Why Chrome Frame is a Necessity

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

With a ton of users being granted access to Google Wave, and Wave suggesting the installation of Chrome Frame, there’s been a bit of griping from Microsoft (and others, but I suspect mostly Microsoft) about not liking the ability for the content to choose the browser agent. I can understand why folks would be irked by this, I really can. It messes with their software.

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Implementing Web Apps as Finite State Machines

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

The revelation that a web application meshes well with the design pattern of a Finite-State Machine (wikipedia link) isn’t really new. It’s discussed in a few other places on the web, usually in a scholarly capacity – the google search returns a lot of articles and research papers. Still, this struck me as something that really should be taught to every fledgeling web developer.

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Marketing’s Bad Name

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

I’d like to share an experience I had a few years ago: I was at the supermarket, making smalltalk with the cashier, and she asked what I do for a living. I answered truthfully: “I work in marketing.” (which is just a broad brush for “i’m a web developer & designer, as well as graphic artist and designer, and I create all advertising and promotional materials for X company”)

I’ve never seen someone go from friendly and cheerful to all business so quickly. From the reaction, you’d think I’d said “I vivisect puppies.” I haven’t told someone “I work in marketing” since – at least not out of context.

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New Theme and a Project Name

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

The new blog theme has been live for a couple days now. It still has a few tweaks to be done (single post page lacks styles for the next/previous links, for example), possibly some component rearranging, but it’s okay for now. The look and feel now matches the background on my twitter page, or you could say the background on the twitter page now matches the blog, as it was the blog that was designed first.

This is probably my first real attempt at a grid-based layout. Vertically it falls short of perfect baseline alignment, simply because I didn’t feel it was worth the effort to get it perfect. This is a blog. If it were a corporate product page, then yes, it would be worth the trouble to get everything in a perfect rhythm, but it’s not.

Also, I have not tested this in IE 6 or 7. Out of curiosity, I tested it in 8 a few seconds ago and it looks fine. Obviously, ignoring IE isn’t a luxury I can afford in the future, but in the current “I just want to get this WP theme done so I’m using something more appropriate than a public theme” context, it works.

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