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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Monthly Archives: March 2004
A case against sidebars
I was reading this good article about software commoditization over at OSDir.com, today and I paused when I hit the article’s sidebar on the use of the word commodity in Shakespeare’s works. I was torn… a ‘graph to the left … Continue reading
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I hate client-side scripting!
Hate’s a strong word, but appropriate. I was working on a quick little script to show/hide the answers to a quiz (not going live till Sunday) that a co-worker was creating. She wanted to do this with a pop-up window, … Continue reading
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Un-fixing your layout, fixing your CSS
MediaSavvy brings up two points about fixed-width layouts: 1. Fixed-width layouts should be flush left: I’m not so sure about this one. When I’m going to a new site I don’t expect any of that sites UI elements to be … Continue reading
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Give the readers what they want
OJR has an excellent article by Vin Crosbie that talks about an issue near and dear to my heart: customization… or give the readers what they want. (thanks, Nathan) If newspapers, online and dead-tree alike, are going to move forward … Continue reading
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CSS spring cleaning?
Barry Parr brings up a very good idea, revisiting and cleaning up your style sheets. I’ve been working on a big project, and as it grew during the development cycle I took a week to clean up and refactor the … Continue reading
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