I’m off to my first South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. I am not quite sure just how prepared I can be for this, the pinnacle of geek events. I can only hope to find enough…
1 week agoAt Tuesday’s co-working session, I talked about a few of the basics of HTML and CSS (as best as I could within two hours, that is). One of the focal points of the session was the importance of…
1 week agoI was fortunate to give a session about research in the age of the real-time Web yesterday at the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library as part of the library’s LITE series of technology…
1 week agoDoesn’t take much to at least wipe out a beach. Wow.
2 weeks agoFirst Images of the Tsunami in Hawaii
Pretty dramatic. Shows the power of even a small tsunami.
Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3 | Nettuts+

Some cool CSS3 techniques on display here, including the gradient technique, which before this article I didn’t even realize existed…(!)
I’ll be leading a session about basic HTML and CSS on March 9 as part of the after-hours session series at Charleston Co-Working. My goal is to help attendees get a good grasp of HTML and CSS…
3 weeks agoThe most algorithmically-curated list of blogs I’ve EVER SEEN.
From today NOOP.NL can claim to be the #1 software development-related blog in Europe.
Well, that%u2019s nice.
And some other people are also doing well on this new edition of the Top 200 Blogs for Developers. Jeff Atwood has replaced Scott Hanselman, meaning that he now has the #1 Development Blog in the world! And look at Scott Berkun, shooting up to the #3 spot. How does he do that? He%u2019s not even a developer! Plus, we have no less than 21 new entries on the list. I%u2019m sure there%u2019s something for everyone here.
Like before, I created this list using Google PageRank, Technorati Authority, Alexa Rank, Google links, Twitter Grader Rank, AideRSS PostRank and the Mongolian Stock Exchange. (For more information see: How to Make a Top Blog List.) And like before, I hope you will tweet, digg, bookmark, and comment the hell out of this article! It was, as usual, a tremendous amount of work.
If you’re a developer, this is quite a good list of blogs to keep up with. The methodology in and of itself is mindblowing.
If you’ve been meaning to learn more about WordPress and you’re in Charleston, you’re in luck. Ian May, John Turner, and I will be giving a WordPress session at #chscowork tonight at 6 PM. Ian…
1 month agoOptimizing Page Load Time
I’ve got performance on my mind lately. Good article talking about the little things you can do to speed things up.
Why it’s good to watch your kids
Or, hide the money.
1 month agoToday, my 4 year old son thought it was funny to put money in the shredder. He stuck over 500 dollars in it. FML