A while back, I was asked to build some code to help keep a businesses mailing list synchronized between SalesForce.com and their campaign management tool, which I suggested should be MailChimp and not the tool they were currently using, but I digress. The project never materialized, but I figured I would build it anyway and [...]
If you do anything web design or development related or just have some free time on your hands and feel like contributing to an interesting independent publisher, I highly recommend checking out Luke Wroblewski’s book on web form design. While somewhere in my subconscious I’ve definitely been annoyed by filling out forms, I hadn’t really [...]
Location, location, location. Now this is interesting…. In some industries they say location can be everything…
Interesting post from the High Performace Web Sites Blogs. Perhaps not surprisingly, efficient page serving is good for your users and our environment.
If you’re using anything other than fragment caching on pages with forms (and your fragment caching runs after your form blocks), then you’ll likely see Rails freakout on on the 2nd user that submits your cached form. The authenticity_token from the prior user has been cached and Rails is protecting you (I think). So, the [...]
If you’re working with a design team that uses the same CSS id and class selector names across multiple CSS files, if you run asset packaging (cache = ‘true’), you’ll bundle all of the CSS files together and your site will probably berserk on you – a fun way to torture your designers who don’t [...]
Alex Russell discussing why the W3C cannot save us: To get a better future, not only do we need a return to “the browser wars”, we need to applaud and use the hell out of “non-standard” features until such time as there’s a standard to cover equivalent functionality. Non-standard features are the future, and suggesting [...]
24 Ways to impress your friends, assuming they’re web design dorks of one form or another. And I mean that in a good way. Happy Holidays!.
New article from Sitepoint discussing OpenID and various microformats to make your social networking application more integration and data flow friendly. Nice to see more discussion of “open” standards in this space…