Here there be robots

October 25th, 2010

usability, seo

Here there be robots

October 25th, 2010

usability, seo

I Think I Know How Cat Burglars Feel

August 20th, 2010

I feel antsy.
Sometimes downright angry.
I walk around with thoughts spinning in my head.  I can’t get them out, and I can’t quiet them down.
It’s that frustrated, anxious feeling you get when you can juuuuust about remember someone’s name…but it never quite floats to the front of your mind.
I’m working on a project at work…something about [...]

Know How to Say When

March 29th, 2010

As a quasi-product/project and design manager, I frequently have to organize a pipeline of features very quickly, while simultaneously learning the development team’s capacity, and priorities for the tasks on the business team’s agenda.
More often than not, the business team has a pretty good idea what they want; they just don’t know how to get [...]

From the PM Trenches

July 22nd, 2009

…when I broaden my approach a little, i find that many very thorny technical problems can be solved quite easily (often better) without writing a line of code

Trouble with Lowpro and Prototype

July 13th, 2009

If you use Lowpro’s extensions for Prototype, you might run into this issue with Internet Explorer 7 (if not 6).
I use LowPro for its nifty shortcuts to otherwise daunting syntax for adding behaviors and page-level events to a web page.  Conventions like Event.addBehavior and Event.
Recently, perhaps with the newest version of Prototype, I started encountering [...]

HowTo: Add a jiffy table of contents to a page

July 12th, 2009

When I built this version (the umpteenth) of my personal web site, I wanted to use a few more tricks I’d learned in the past few years, and thought it would be nice to make them do some of the work for me.
If you’ve seen my resume page, you might have noticed the table of [...]

is rubber ducking: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking

March 13th, 2009

Posted via email from Bryan’s posterous

How much would XYZ web site cost?

March 13th, 2009

I get this question a lot: “How much would it cost to make a web site like ‘XYZ Stuff!’, except with A, B and C?”
It’s not a bad question, and honestly, ask any one who’s built one or more sites before, and you’ll get a different answer from each. However, I just recently responded to [...]

Blackberry Snob: Someone who thinks you can text as fast as they can, even tho you have an ancient cell phone

March 9th, 2009

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