Archive for October, 2007

links for 2007-10-30

YUI Library: Grids CSS
I need to compare this to Blueprint CSS and see who comes out on top.
(tags: css webdesign layout yahoo Reference)

Web Development 2.0
This is a great article that highlights the ways in which traditional software development has evolved to the quickened pace of the Web.
(tags: web2.0 development programming oreilly)

links for 2007-10-27

Finetoothcog
If my bike is ever stolen–may it never happen–I would probably give this service a try.
(tags: bike stolen portland)

links for 2007-10-25

Powell’s Books - Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged by Suzy Banks and Richard Heinichen
I’m not mechanically challenged, but I have been thinking about rainwater collection at my house. Looks like this might be a starting place.
(tags: rainwater environment ecobook)

links for 2007-10-24

How opinionated companies get customers to live without floppy drives, assigned seats, credit cards, etc. - (37signals)
Our company is currently dealing with some of these same issues. The customer doesn’t usually want to hear “our software doesn’t do that,’ but sometimes it is true. Whether you work with clients who are inherently honest (most) or [...]

A busy weekend

So the weekend started off with a leisurely Saturday morning—we slept in until 7:15, woohoo—but it quickly degraded.
First there was the startled cry from Diana to inform me that the wall in our daughters bedroom was leaking. We had some pretty hard rains over the last few days leading up to the weekend. Saturday was [...]

From the mouths of babes

Shya says, “the human floss tastes funny on my tongue.”

Cyldesdales coming to the Cross Crusade

[Via Bike Portland] Cyldesdales coming to the Cross Crusade. I qualify for this category. I wonder if there is a cyclocross bike loaner program for us beefy riders?  That’s a lot of extra stress on the bike!
Note to anyone concerned for my health: I weigh considerably less than when I was a offensive lineman on [...]

links for 2007-10-17

MOO.com
I’ve been wanting to try this service for a while… I’m out of personal business cards… hmm, sounds like fate calling.
(tags: cards business photos print)

Google Analytics Announcements at eMetrics
My only beef with this post is that the last paragraph is perhaps the most important; Google Urchin is getting an update. It’s about damn time! Google [...]

links for 2007-10-11

Digital Web Magazine - jQuery Crash Course
This is a nice tutorial on jQuery–one of the more minimalist and easy to use javascript libraries out there.
(tags: jquery javascript tutorial)

Areaware Strida
Yeah, but it’s ugly. *sigh*
(tags: bike gadgets folding)

links for 2007-10-09

WiFi-detecting t-shirt via Boing Boing Gadgets
Oh, I’ve had boxer shorts that could do that for years…
(tags: wifi tshirt gadgets)