Google Calendar: Your modals suck.
9 September 2011
Seriously, don't you ask your candidates about Fitts' Law during interviews any more? It's not like scheduling recurring meetings is an infrequent event, especially at a business, making this a...
Applescript: Converting metadata of symphonic tracks in iTunes
5 April 2008
iTunesSymphonicMetadata.scpt I listen to a fair amount of symphonic music. I think of symphonic music first in terms of the composer (e.g. Bartok, Beethoven), then the work (5th Piano Concerto...
Newbie Ruby on Rails with Locomotive, Part 2
5 October 2007
Thanks to http://safari.oreilly.com and the O'Reilly Rails Cookbook, I have learned the answer to my burning question: Yes, I *do* need to create join tables in my database migration definition...
you know it's time to go home early when...
21 September 2006
Yesterday someone sent around a link to http://hotcaptcha.com, which selects images with the Am I Hot or Not API and asks users to choose the 3 of 9 pictures whose...
Redesign of the Google Base homepage
19 September 2006
Less suck, more hot. We did a ton of usability testing of Base in the past few months, and this revised homepage came out of it. Goals were to...
Software specs are not the enemy.
29 August 2006
The fact that a lot of organizations cram unreasonable, un-vetted features into the spec and call it a "spec" is not a problem with specs. It is an organizational problem. Blaming the existence of specs for problems caused by bad management is not fair to the spec.
Referencing the FOR property of the HTML LABEL element using JavaScript
24 August 2006
In javascript, I needed to compare the "for" attribute of a LABEL with the ID of an input object to see if I'm looking at the LABEL associated with that...
Pironimo.net
25 March 2006
Pironimo.net is a twiki installation that I deployed, customized, and maintain for a small community of friends (around 30 people). It began on another server in September 2002. Since then...