Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

An iPhone Story

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Last Sunday I purchased an iPhone. This was not my plan, but a couple of things came up to prompt this move. This thing is incredible for the most part, but with only one complaint: The Purchase First of all, my expectation was that I'd wait until a second generation release came ...

The Importance of Mentor

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Finding the right mentor is more important than anything else. This quote struck me as a perfect example of the mentor-disciple relationship: Confronted with a sudden, near-lethal dose of humility, my mind hatched an insane plan. Acting with cleverness and boldness unmatched before or since, I started looking for Wil Shipley. ...

iPhone ignores the handheld media type

Monday, August 6th, 2007

In the ADC article entitled "Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone", Apple states: You can tailor the style of your webpages by providing a style sheet that adapts to iPhone. The CSS 3 media query allows you to do just that. There are several types of queries including print, handheld, ...

The Four Pillars of the Web

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

My old high school was deeply involved in Round Square - an international organization of high schools that practiced education that strongly aligns with the following "pillars": Internationalism Democracy Environment Adventure Leadership Service My XML teacher mentioned this in the current week's discussion, almost as a passing thought, but I thought this was a poignant list that ...

Creating a TextMate Drag Command for xml-stylesheet

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Applying CSS to an XML file is easy, well supported in modern browsers, and can be quite handy at times. For instance, slap some lipstick on that RSS feed. Sick of the tag soup of HTML-land? Make the switch to pure XML web pages with xml-stylesheet! And now a quick tip ...