9 degrees development

A List Apart Survey 2008

Michael — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:23:27 +0000

A List Apart has been a great resource for years now. If your work has anything to do with the web community, jump over and take their current survey. I did…

I attended An Event Apart in April, 2006 and it was well worth it.

Why This Site Isn’t Updated Enough

Michael — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:08:32 +0000

It recently occurred to me that I struggle with how to update my site to reflect my recent work. The fact is 90% of my time is spent contracting with a few different companies, and for obvious reasons (and some not so obvious), I cannot simply throw up a screen shot of a project I have developed (usually solely).

I suppose I could change a few names, a few CSS rules, and blur some key features… and I just may do that.

While I’m a busy as ever (which is the main reason this site is not updated more frequently), I am going to attempt to figure a way to show some recent work in a very creative manner.

Wait a minute… here’s another excuse - it’s Valentine’s Day. I need to run and get something nice for my bride.

One Talented Photographer

Michael — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:12:42 +0000

I’ve recently completed Emily Followill’s new photography portfolio, Heavy use of jQuery, a dose of web standards, and a color palette inspired by the client.

The portfolio was created using jQuery’s jCarousel developed by Jan Sorgalla. For those of you that might notice, getting one carousel to control another in the portfolio pages (other than ‘out of the box’) took some doing. Any alternatives would be welcome.

As for Emily’s work, it’s nothing short of professional talent with a natural eye leading the way. Pick up a leading decorating/design magazine… you’re likely to see her name in the credits.

TextMate Wins

Michael — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:55:40 +0000

Well, I bit the bullet and began using TextMate. After years of using BBEdit (and liking it), I just felt that there was a more modern editor out there than gave us things like code-completion, etc.

Feature-rich, it’s not an editor for everyone. If you need WYSIWYG, look to Adobe’s Dreamweaver or some other application, but if you can handle hand-coding, you’ll not be dissappointed. The more of a programmer you are, the more you’ll like TextMate.

IE: the definition of non-standards

Michael — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:39:14 +0000

On April 12, 1999, the W3C announced “Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows, Solaris and HP-UX”. For those if you who aren’t sure how much the Internet has changed in the last 5+ years, I’ve got a horse drawn carriage you can use for that trip to the Grand Canyon next spring.

Yes, we now have IE 6, but as for standards support for CSS, we’ve gained little. The not-so-funny issues range from the constant evolvement of practically every other browser to be standards compliant to the fact that IE is still the browser being used up to 90% of the time.

What does this mean for web developers? You’ll have my answer tomorrow…