philosophy
User Experience is Computation
If human brains are computational machines, then any computer program with a human user is parallel computation.
web-design
web-design
Do we need more HTML colors?
I wrote a blog post about painting my fence. This got me thinking a lot about colors and how I use them as a web developer. Color Matching Paint With GIMPPlease note: This post is a stream-of-conciousness journal entry that describes all of the mistakes I made while trying to
web-design
Creating a new favicon with text-to-image AI
It's been a while since I wrote a blog post about creating a favicon.ico file for your website or blog. Things have changed a bit since I wrote that blog post in May 2010. I've been updating the CSS for my blog recently, and I
rails
Avatar Harmony - Sync your profile pics
I've written a tiny web application called 'Avatar Harmony'. You can sign in with twitter or facebook, add your Gravatar login details, and the app will automatically sync your profile pics across each of your accounts. It can sync avatars in the following directions: * Facebook =>
compaq-evo-t20
Last.fm on embedded systems
I've finished most of the work I'm going to do on my shell.fm ruby server. Its written on sinatra + jquery + jquery-ui (so, a lot of ajax calls). It also requires my custom shell.fm fork if you want the volume control to work. You can
gimp
How to create a favicon.ico with GIMP
UPDATE: Theres an easier way to do this here: http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/creating-a-favicon-for-your-website/. http://linuxproblem.org/art_19.html By Mathias Kettner : You need an image file that GIMP can open (PNG, GIF, etc.). And you need the command line tool ppmtowinicon from the netpbm-tools (on SuSE you
javascript
Obscure jqGrid API notes
If you are using an older version of jqGrid because it comes nicely wrapped up in the jquery-grid-rails-plugin, keep in mind that all the demo code is written with the new API introduced in version 3.6. Fortunately, most of the demo code can still be reused with our version