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In re: The Future of Interaction Design
My last semester at UGA I took a class called Human-Computer Interaction, or HCI. The entirety of the class was studying what we in the industry call “User Interfaces” or UIs – the glue that allows you to interact with your computer. Most of the time, when people talk about UI they are referring to [...]
Birthday Change Limit?
Before you decide to pull a funny by changing your friend’s birthday after they left their Facebook logged in, take pause. Your change could be there for awhile. I opened my news feed, and found this story among the updates that Facebook felt pertinent for me today: Ooops. It seems the quote from their help [...]
A Tribute to Steve Jobs
I can’t deny that tonight, the world has lost a visionary who was largely responsible for the personal computer as we know it today. I for one will miss the hilarious emails that come from his personal email account. For those who didn’t know, Steve actually answered emails from the public. Regularly. Here’s a short [...]
Practical Git Strategies
I’ve always been a proponent of version control from my very first interaction with CVS. And although the concept of using CVS on a project nowadays makes me shudder, I can’t deny that I have respect for its role in introducing me to version control. When I was working for the University of Georgia, I [...]
Some Thoughts on Steve Jobs’s Retirement
As a Mac user for five years now, I’ve had some interest in Steve Jobs to say the least. He managed to orchestrate leading Apple from the nearly bankrupt skeleton that it was when he returned to the company to an industry leader in the mobile device market. This is a feat that’s not easy [...]
Prototype vs jQuery
So, several days ago Ash White and I had an exchange on Twitter about jQuery vs Prototype as far as JavaScript Frameworks. Ash has been using both for awhile, and I used to be a Prototype user – but over the course of the last year I’ve switched camps over to jQuery. At Ash’s suggestion, [...]
Lessons Learned in the Last Year
Most years I allow my birthday to pass fairly uneventfully. I will usually end up having dinner with friends or family, but I’ve never really enjoyed anything that put me on the spot (i.e. a full blown party). While thinking on this I decided to diverge from the normal mandate of this blog a little [...]
Making Apache Smarter: Because Configuring VHosts Sucks
Hello again my friends. It’s been almost a month since my last post, so it’s time to post again, right? At some point I’m going to develop a healthy balance between work and this blog / my side projects. It hasn’t happened yet. But hey, it happens. As promised previously, this article is going to [...]
Making DNS Smarter on OS X
So, if you’re a web designer like me, configuration is one of the things that you dread. In spite of the fact that there are ample automation tools at our disposal, we typically end up doing a lot of things by hand. One of these things for Web Developers is adding Virtual Hosts on Apache, [...]
FCC: US Broadband deployment not on track
On Friday, the FCC released its seventh annual report on the status of broadband deployment in the United States, and the news isn’t looking good for broadband Internet Service Providers. The FCC’s report estimated that “26.2 million Americans living in more than 9.2 million households are unserved by broadband today” (p 15). In addition, on [...]
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