Notes: How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Jeremy Keith and Aaron Gustafson DOM scripting is the new CSS. AG: DHTML vs…

Notes: How to Be A Web Design Superhero

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Andy Clarke and Andy Budd. If understanding us is any Barney then let us…

Notes: Traditional Design and New Technology

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Traditional design = print. Discussion based on aesthetics. Liz Danzico Mark Boulton. Society of Typographic…

The first couple of days in Austin

I left the house at 0600 on Thursday and about eighteen hours later arrived in Austin. I flew with Delta Airlines and I was fairly impressed with the hospitality. I guess I'm far too used to travelling with EasyJet on the cheap! When I got to Atlanta I got hooked…

Moving to WordPress

Not so long ago I posted that I would be moving to TextPattern from my custom-made blogging system. As a result of that post there were a few interesting comments suggesting I take a look at all of the possibilities before I jumped into moving across to TextPattern. After some…

Google Acquires Measuremap

Yet another aquisition, Google has snapped up MeasureMap. For those of you that don't already know Measure Map is a web based stats package which is aimed at bloggers. It specifically tracks how much attention your blog is getting in terms of vistors, links and comments. This is an interesting…

Yahoo! launches UI library and Design Patterns

Yahoo! have released (under a BSD licence) a user interface library along with an accompanying set of design patterns. The library contains several utilities including Yahoo!'s own event handling and Ajax connection scripts. These helpers are designed to wrap up common requirements into a cross-browser solution so that developers…

The Future of Web Apps Summit Roundup

Yesterday I went to the Carson Web Apps Summit at the Kensington Conference Centre in London. As before at d.Construct there was a collaborative note-taking session using subEthaEdit. Once again Steve Marshall did most of the work! Joshua Schacter's presentation covered his experiences in creating Del.icio.us. He…