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designing web-pages for a limited audience

On a whim I looked at http://www.ashkan.org/ today, hoping to see the site of my long-time friend Ashkan Soltani.
Well, ashkan.org wasn’t my friend’s site. It did give me a laugh though.
I’ve spent the last few weeks teaching a class called Visual and Interactive Design for the Web at UC Berkeley Extension. We talked […]

photoblox integration

Introducing…. Photoblox integration!
Now I’ve got a Laszlo Photoblox on the right column.
Sweet.
I’ll look into integrating flickr & Photoblox too - dynamic Photobloxen!

flickr integration

Introducing… flickr integration into the blog.

born again!

blogger.ihardlyknower.org is born again - this time using wordpress 1.5, a standards complient open-source blogging tool that is easier to use than my old ‘movabletype’ blog solution.
And, by the way, commenting is now enabled again so I welcome the comments!

drawing lines with Laszlo

I went to Flax in San Francisco to leaf through their tremendous paper collection and bought a few beautiful pieces of paper designed & produced by eiei-o studio, a design shop in New York City. Beautiful paper!
I was so inspired by one of the designs that I started thinking about how to implement the […]

on painless software schedules

Man, joelonsoftware is full of good reads!
I’ve started keeping track of my projects using Joel’s suggested layout for spreadsheet-based tracking of development projects. I already feel more productive.

on social interface v. user interface

I read a piece today on usability of social interfaces on joelonsoftware.com — Whereas the goal of user interface design is to help the user succeed, the goal of social interface design is to help the society succeed, even if it means one user has to fail.
Joel talks about the design of social networking sites, […]

data-driven RIA, day 1.1

This morning I wired together the blog reader (Actually, it only reads my blog right now!), which was pretty easy once I groked how pointers inside of datapath worked.
Of course, you can point this app at your RSS 2.0 feed by changing the src attribute in the tag.
<canvas width=”850″ height=”550″>
<!– DATA –>
<dataset name=”rss” […]

start of data-driven RIA

I’ve been playing around with Laszlo’s open-source server in my spare time.
I whipped up the beginning of a data-driven RIA piece that consumes an RSS feed from my blog & displays titles of each blog item in a floating window.
I plan on creating RSS-readers using multiple different technologies & compare the length-of-code, ease-of-developent, and development […]

regex review

CHARACTER MATCHING -

.
Match any one character
[ ]
Match any one character listed between the brackets
[^ ]
Match any one character not listed between the brackets

REPETITION OPERATORS

?
Match any character one time, if it exists
*
Match declared element multiple times, if it exists
+
Match declared element one or more times
{n}
Match declared element one or more times
{n,}
Match declared element at least […]