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1

Django Plugables

 April.29th.2008 • 4:36PM 5 Comments

This is the story of a guy and his company’s first application, Django Plugables. Well, actually it’s more of a utility but that’s besides the point. Said guy takes you on an overview of what went into the creation of said application.

For those of you who haven’t heard or have been living under the proverbial rock, Revyver released its first “application” about three weeks ago. And yes, only now am I getting around to writing about Django Plugables. I put application in quotes mainly because it’s more of a utility than a social network application1.

So here it is, “The story of Django Plugables” or “How I built something in 5 days.”

Day 1: Find what’s pissing me off

This story starts with a problem. Every story has to start out with a problem, right? “Boy ...

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2

With One Wish

 April.20th.2008 • 3:18AM 26 Comments

This is the story of a guy and his brain. While sitting in bed one early Sunday morning, a geeky thought strikes him. He wonders what properties or attributes designers would pick if they could have one implemented from HTML5 or CSS3 today. The comments should be where all the action happens, hopefully.

If you’ve read (and hopefully got a giggle out of) my browser manifesto, you would have seen that I truly consider this to be a great time to be a designer. And after seeing the awesome commentary of the last entry, I wanted to pose a question that i hope spawns some more discussion.

If you could have one HTML5/CSS3 property or attribute added into every modern browser today, what would it be?

Usually at this point I’d make an excuse to post two things, but I’ll play it clean and only state one. The ...

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3

Pixel Prostitution

 April.17th.2008 • 12:33PM 24 Comments

This is the story of a guy who saw a good friend of his post about clients on Twitter. The messages hit a chord with him, but didn’t think his answer (or subsequent “advice”) would fit within 140 characters. We now commence with the ranting.

My good friend Croftie posted this this morning (links to individual tweets are in the footnotes):

Ever had a client take your design, “rework it” and send it back to you so you can do the rest of the site their way? How did you handle it?1 I don’t want to be someone’s pixel prostitute. If they want to push my pixels around, they can do it themselves, after I’m done.2 My job is to give them the best possible solution I can come up with. They don’t have to use it if ...

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4

Obsessive OS Rearranging

 April.13th.2008 • 12:16PM 13 Comments

This is the story of a guy and an operating system. Said guy loves to reformat his computer and reinstall said operating system, but whenever he does it, he seems to change his routine around. He asks the audience to validate his claims, hoping that he’s not the only one with this “problem.”

While I attempt to write one or two more update posts (one on the recent Revyver release, Django Plugables, and one on the state of Revyver), I thought I’d pose a question that has been in the back of my mind for quite a while.

When you reformat or reinstall your operating system, does the way you use it change?

What I mean by that is quite simple, but I think I can best explain it by answering it. It seems like every time I reinstall OS X, it’s never for a concrete reason that would say ...

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5

Sidebar Creative: Year Two

 April.9th.2008 • 9:29PM 11 Comments

This is a story about a guy and his three friends. A year ago, the four guys started a collective with the name Sidebar Creative. Since then, they’ve had lots of fun and have built wonderful things. This is the story of what has happened, as well as what’s to come.

You’re probably going, “what in the hell is going on?”

Well, when you see the four of us update at the exact same time (especially Dan ;P), you know there’s something coming. Sidebar Creative—the little dream that one Skype call turned into a reality turned one this past January. One year of a lot of talking, a lot of laughing, a lot of thinking and a lot of creating.

Working with Dan, Steve and Jon has not only been tremendously fun, but quite the learning experience as well. So have we proved that you could take ...

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6

Dynamic Javascript In Django

 April.4th.2008 • 12:15AM 6 Comments

This is the story of a guy, Google and Django. After a hard fought battle with jQuery, the guy takes on Google Maps. After conquering them, he doesn’t feel right leaving all of the Javascript embedded in his templates. This is his journey to liberate them.

Work has started and is continuing on what I’m labeling 25.1. Yes I’m treating this as an app, but more on that later. ;) Part of 25.1 involves Google Maps, which like jQuery is something that would usually lead to me wanting to decapitate myself. Thankfully, Google helped and sample code is the shit.

But first, a little history. Like Jeff, I’ve been going on a geocoding spree. I’ve made it a habit to accurately geocode all of my Flickr photos and then bring them to Django using django-syncr. Unfortunately, django-syncr isn’t working ...

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7

BASH-ing My Birthday

 April.2nd.2008 • 11:17AM 15 Comments

This is the story of a guy who usually writes birthday posts on this birthday. This year calls for something completely different. Why? He feels that the posts could be perceived as boring and he agrees completely.

Usually, I’d write a post related to adding one year onto my age and stuff like that. Twenty-five. Well, now I don’t have to pay the underage fee to rent a car anymore! And my insurance should go down right? RIGHT?

Anyway, I’m sure those posts were boring to everybody else but me, so here’s something completely different: 


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            *.gz)       gunzip $1       ;;
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            *.tbz2)     tar xjf $1      ;;
            *.tgz ...

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8

The Future Browser Manifesto

 April.1st.2008 • 12:00AM 18 Comments

This is the story of a guy who wants a better web, a guy that wants a web where the only limits are people’s creativity. It is time to move on. It is time to believe in the future1. Maybe… it’s time to laugh? Look at the date silly people.

My fellow designers, developers and general web aficionados; we are embarking on an incredible journey, one that in the future will be looked at as a necessary step towards the growth of our industry as a whole. We are seeing new strides in design, new experiments in bringing rich interactivity to our world and new minds joining the fight on a daily basis. It is truly a wonderful time to be working in this industry and it’s only going to get better.

Two-thousand, four-hundred and ten (2410) days ago, Internet Explorer 6 was placed into our collective lap ...

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