Ok, friends, family, colleagues, and drive bys compliments of search engines, please be prepared for MAJOR BLOG CONSTRUCTION. I am going to completely overhaul this blog in the next two days and switch from my somewhat modified XHTML 1.0 Movable Type templates to HTML5 code and templates of my own creation. As is my want for my own blog, I will be doing this live and not in a test dev/stage server type thing. Be prepared for a bit of a bumpy ride and you might see a peak behind the curtain, hang tight. Wish me well, I am diving in....
All apologies to my readers, but my server has decided to slow down to a crawl the last few hours/days. It has been on the docket for a few months now to move this blog from shared hosting to a VPS, but the last few days of (bad) server performance is making it very clear to me that it is bad as even pages with very little text and no images are taking longer than 10 seconds to render. I have run a selection of pages through the validators** to see if there is some dropped code or other reason, of which there is nothing to fix right now, so it is the server. Please bear with us and hopefully...
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After I wrote last night's post on "DIY Mobile Programming: Get Started with HTML, CSS, and Javascript", I realized that I assumed that all of my readers who want to learn to create | develop their own mobile apps are already familiar with and design | develop in HTML, CSS, and Javascript. This is after I shut off my computer and was on my way to bed, when I realized that maybe those of us in the web & mobile industries need to give more than lipservice to the idea of web education but is it time for all of us to consider that HTML should be apart of the canon of literacy. Should HTML, in a basic form, be...
"If you can build your app with HTML, CSS & JavaScript, then you probably should." - @jonathanstark #wdx (via @garazi) Some friends recently asked on Twitter what was the best way to start programming mobile apps with Nokia's Qt, as they found that it was not as easy as the publicity from Nokia had purported Qt to be. I replied: "When devs say a 'framework' is "easy" it is code for "It won't take 15 months of 10 hour days & make you want to KILL yourself."" Anyone who has developed an application, be it for the desktop or mobile, can tell you that framework makes it so much easier, but easy is a relative term. What easy may mean...
More folks out in Internet-land are getting riled up over the TSA's back scatter x-ray scanner (aka the Porn-o-Scan) and a few more are getting riled up enough to call for a boycott/activism stance in the form of National Opt-Out Day and then Mr. Goldberg puts forth the best suggestion yet: Kilts. Oh yeah. In other News, Ask the Pilot, tells America to remember recent history and take a chill pill. And that includes the TSA....
Photos taken by Ms. Jen at Alex's Bar on Fri 11.12.10 with her Nokia N8. Sat 11.13.10 - Last night I helped out Alex and worked the front door at the bar for the Ill Repute / Fang show that Ron Martinez put on. I used the opportunity of my favorite low light photography challenge to see how the Nokia N8 does at taking photos inside of Alex's, as the walls are all painted a deep red and suck the light out of photos making most photography dashedly difficult even with a flash. With both the flash turned off and the flash turned on the Nokia N8 did a great job at capturing the scene and not either whiting...
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