Bent Paperclips

He basically described that validation is helpful for checking why the site isn't loading the way you want. So it's useful for finding markup errors like close tags. Fair enough, if you are still writing HTML by hand, but a tool like HAML completely (or as close as possibly) protects you from markup errors like close tags. It also happens to make writing html twice as fast or more (just add a tag at the top and indent and you have wrapped a whole section or code.

So here's the analogy I came up with to explain to my wife:

If I were laying railroad track, and using old wooden rail ties, I'd want to measure the width of the track every time I went to drive in a new spike, because obviously if the width of the track weren't standardized, trains would fall right off. Using HAML* is a bit like ordering pre-cast concrete railroad ties, and instead of having to measure each time, I just have to line the track up into the groove, and bolt it down.

The only time I might run into a problem is if someone ordered rail ties for the wrong standard, which would be a bit like if you used a poor or broken HAML interpreter. On the plus side, with HAML—as opposed to railroad construction—fixing the interpreter can be done retroactively if needed.

So we really shouldn't need to waste time building an XHTML structure validator for HTML5, because we shouldn't be hand coding HTML5 the way we used to. But those are just my 2 cents.

Still, the video worth definitly worth watching, I'm at the very least, going to load more of my pages without images and see what happens

Also http://dowebsitesneedtobeexperiencedexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

_{Or Markdown, or LaTEX, though I think HAML gives the right mix of craft (you can still control tag names, and even use HTML5y tags) and markup detachment (you don't have to worry about syntax, and if you mess it up, it shows up right away on an error page), but you already know it, if you know HTML.}

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Free Lego

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:00:00 -0700

Wallpaper

Sorry, but it still kicks a fair amount of ass.

Via http://drbl.in/blfD & http://drbl.in/bliN

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1000 FPS Superbike Cornering

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:10:00 -0700

via http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/moments-casey-stoner-moto-...

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Finally lets all admit it sucks to design for Android (but here're some tips anyway)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:37:00 -0700

Coulda used this article a week ago (also 4 months ago).

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/06/30/designing-for-android/

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Running GoogleAppEngineLauncher on Port 80, Easily

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:25:00 -0700

So, you want to run the GoogleAppEngineLauncher on port 80 so you can—I don't know—use your hosts file to record a screencast without having to hack in the proper URL somehow, even though the features you want to show off aren't live yet? Also you're using OS X.

Well everyone will tell you that port 80 is protected or requires root access, but what I haven't seen anyone else say is that you can get around this pretty quickly.

First add your URL to the etc/hosts file, and direct it at your local IP 127.0.0.1.

Then, in terminal make a folder for the new prefs to live in (so you don't have to keep creating the project over and over):

$ sudo mkdir -p /var/root/Library/Application\ Support/GoogleAppEngineLauncher
$ sudo chmod 775 /var/root/Library/Application\ Support/GoogleAppEngineLauncher

Finally just launch the GoogleAppEngineLauncher from terminal as a sudoer:

$ sudo /Applications/GoogleAppEngineLauncher.app/Contents/MacOS/GoogleAppEngineLauncher

Add your project (don't forget to set the port to 80), launch it and you should be ready to go.

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Designers are from Mars, and women responsible for buying everything

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:16:00 -0700

No more shrink and pinking it! (Not that I'm implying we do that generally)

http://cognition.happycog.com/article/designers-are-from-mars

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Designers are from Mars, and women re responsible for buying everything

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:16:00 -0700

No more shrinking and pinking it!

http://cognition.happycog.com/article/designers-are-from-mars

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Finally, Compressed Air Energy Storage.

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:41:00 -0700

I was gonna build a tiny one of these with an old air compressor and attach it to the back half of my Subaru's transmission, but I gotta fix the clutch first.

Via http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20069772-54/start-up-pumped-for-compressed-...

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Zen Project Management

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:18:26 -0700

Great metaphor for how different "managers" behave when a crisis hits.

Shit happens. It’s unavoidable. The real magic happens when and how we respond.

The Panicker becomes hysteric, and recklessly sprints toward the disaster with their head down in an attempt to solve the problem immediately using brute force. This usually turns a disaster into a catastrophe, and ultimately produces a vicious cycle of ever-increasing proportions.

The Zen Master does the exact opposite: they stop. The Panickers are shocked and panic even more. They think the Zen Master is paralyzed, but that’s not the case. The Master is cold as ice, running models in their head, trying to really grok the situation and why it happened. Time is going by, and people are still freaking out. But the Zen Master is weighing all the available options, looking at the issue from many perspectives. Then, when everyone thinks the sky is about to rain down fireballs, the Zen Master calmly decides to act in order to resolve the issue in the most efficient and permanent way possible.

Please read it all at http://bigbangtechnology.com/post/zen_and_the_art_of_crisis_management, it's great, and concise.

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Haugh haaaaugh haaaaaaguh

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:00:00 -0700

*Imagining Steven Colbert making is "I'm about to barf face" throughout*

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Once you go free you can't (and shouldn't) go back

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:41:33 -0700

It's a good 2 and a half minute read.

http://www.micahrich.com/loyalty-my-dear-customer.html

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Show off your chops in the Les Paul birthday doodle

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:30:00 -0700

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html

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I need to find 868,680 suckers on Foursquare right now.

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:00:00 -0700

And they all have to go to a 7eleven and check in. So I can go to space. Crazy way to get people to go to 7eleven for no other reason, you'd think slushies would be part of that somehow, since it's 1000° out.

http://www.7-eleven.com/Only-at-7-Eleven/Promotions/Check-In-To-Space/Default...

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