Archive for the 'Design' Category

IE7 ClearType Gripe

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I fully understand why Internet Explorer 7 uses clear type. Some people’s eyes work better with ClearType. It is simply an accessibility nightmare in my humble opinion. Actually, the problem is not in the ClearType - which works better on some displays than others - but it is in the Internet Explorer [...]

They Got it Right: TripIt Invite

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I just got an invite from TripIt.com. Well, it was through TripIt.com, from my buddy Dave. When the invitation arrived it not only had a link, but it had a username (my email address) and password already in the email. Wow. The cost to click the link and join their social [...]

Write It Like You Want to Experience It

Friday, May 25th, 2007

I dabble in the world of philosophy at times and one of the philosophical movements that I don’t participate in, but find interesting is existentialism. Experience is all that there is doesn’t suit me, but in the world of software development experience is all that there is.

Does your software do what it says it [...]

The Double Save

Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

I just finished proving my residency as a Colorado state citizen for some continued education. I needed to do this so that I didn’t have to pay out-of-state tuition fees of over $1000.00. While the staff at the Community College were trying to change my status to resident they went through all sorts [...]

The ‘Less is…’ Controversy

Monday, October 10th, 2005

Within the last couple years I have gotten more into design methodology, planning methodology and the evaluation of code quality verses quantity. I read several blogs that attempt to broach this subject: lesscode.org and 37signals‘ blog. They’ve had a disagreement recently, which is fine, its none of my business… I don’t care. [...]