Cornelius Bergen

Browser Support? Forget It! – David Bushell – Web Design & Front-end Development

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:36:17 -0700

Browser Support? Forget It! – David Bushell – Web Design & Front-end Development:

Maintaining a browser support list for clients has the potential to do more damage than good in my opinion. It does not reflect the reality of how websites are built, nor the devices which access them. It gives clients and developers alike the wrong impressive of what we should be trying to achieve. A traditional browser support list is completely ignorant of a website’s requirements. It wrongly aims for parity across browsers and leads to much wasted time and money. Labelling individual browsers as all or nothing is madness. Considering what the web’s future is shaping up to be like, it’s also futile.

The Impenetraball protects its hollow interior with a dense,...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:43:25 -0800

The Impenetraball protects its hollow interior with a dense, chainmail-like mesh made from 132 binder clips. (via Impenetraball — Sculpture by Zachary Abel)

sundanceapples: aluminumdandelion: MODERNETTES-“Barbra” HD...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:24:57 -0800

sundanceapples:

aluminumdandelion:

MODERNETTES-“Barbra” HD restored (by justmefilm)

Love this.

CBC music library could be lost

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:11:36 -0800

CBC music library could be lost:

“A library as a whole is a document of how and why an institution or organization collects and organizes its artifacts,” says Amber Goodwyn, the music co-ordinator at Montreal radio CKUT. “Digitization obfuscates that history.”

COPE: Create Once, Publish Everywhere

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:49:36 -0800

COPE: Create Once, Publish Everywhere:

Build content management systems (CMS), not web publishing tools (WPT)

(via 3Drehkino)

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:26:25 -0800

(via 3Drehkino)

sundanceapples: Charlie McAlister - Hawiian Blue Mississippi...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:35:21 -0800

sundanceapples:

Charlie McAlister - Hawiian Blue Mississippi Grey

Sometimes you want a little old school crazy.

Now Every Company Is A Software Company - Forbes

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:05:23 -0800

Now Every Company Is A Software Company - Forbes:

Your company must, using software and technology, become as responsive and agile as your customers. And then remain as aggressive as they are by measuring, monitoring, evaluating and responding to data about your products and services and their impact on society.

FEEDBACK BLOG: Giving it Away: How Free Music Makes More Than Sense

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:16:22 -0800

FEEDBACK BLOG: Giving it Away: How Free Music Makes More Than Sense:

derekwebb:

Music matters. It’s so integral and pervasive in our culture that it almost feels invisible. It’s even hard to imagine walking into almost any store without hearing music overhead. Culture provides a constant soundtrack to our lives. So it’s no wonder there’s so much discussion and debate…

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009 (by stargatefilms)

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:32:18 -0800

Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009 (by stargatefilms)

Simply Statistics: Getting email responses from busy people

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:38:26 -0800

Simply Statistics: Getting email responses from busy people:

I can definitely improve my own email habits.

Freakonomics » To Develop Expertise, Motivation is Necessary but Insufficient

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:41:06 -0800

Freakonomics » To Develop Expertise, Motivation is Necessary but Insufficient:

Wheeler recommended that, after we solve any problem, we think of one sentence that we could tell our earlier self that would have “cracked” the problem. This kind of thinking turns each problem and its solution into an opportunity for reflection and for developing transferable reasoning tools.

Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:35:44 -0800

Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical — Kickstarter:

WHEN moisture sensor gets wet THEN tweet “The basement is flooding!”

The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5 « Paul Irish

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:06:41 -0800

The Fundamentals, Primitives and History of HTML5 « Paul Irish:

Relationship between tags, elements, the DOM.

Closing tags are optional.

Quotes around attributes are optional.

HTML5 parsing spec is based on research on how browsers actually act.

Personalized doctypes.

Goodbye, Sidewalks: London Planners Break Down Boundaries Between Cars and Pedestrians - Cities - GOOD

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:58:00 -0800

Goodbye, Sidewalks: London Planners Break Down Boundaries Between Cars and Pedestrians - Cities - GOOD:

Great design shouldn’t require signs. It reminds me of this: European Cities Do Away with Traffic Signs (Spiegel)

The 'Diverging Diamond' Interchange Is an Abomination - Design - The Atlantic Cities

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:30:00 -0800

The 'Diverging Diamond' Interchange Is an Abomination - Design - The Atlantic Cities:

“The engineering profession has devolved,” says Marohn. “It’s just, ‘Do I meet the criteria?’ This stuff looks good from the air, it looks good on a set of plans. It even looks good when you drive by. But we’re not exactly building a place here that is going to add any value to society.“

Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value - Smashing Coding

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:20:00 -0800

Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value - Smashing Coding:

It’s important to build sites with an eye to the future but it’s more important to future-proof the storage/organization of the website data, not the mark-up. If the site is built well, it shouldn’t be so difficult to change the mark-up down the road as technologies and demands change.

The Golden Section Hypothesis: A Critical Look » Naturography – Nature Photography By Mike Spinak

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:09:00 -0800

The Golden Section Hypothesis: A Critical Look » Naturography – Nature Photography By Mike Spinak:

While the ancient Greeks prolifically wrote down records of their thoughts about aesthetics, and while they kept good records of many things, there’s nothing to corroborate that they believed the golden mean was especially aesthetically pleasing, nor that they worked it into their architecture. They were aware of the golden mean, and its derivative spirals, rectangles, sections, etc. However, they appear to have made no comments about any special aesthetic properties of the golden ratio. Euclid explains how to calculate it in his book Elements; it’s a step in the construction of the regular pentagon. The name he uses for (what we call) the golden mean is “Division in Extreme and Mean Ratio”. It’s just another one of the calculations he discusses in the book. That’s all it was to the ancient Greeks, generally, as far as is known. The notion that the ancient Greeks widely held the golden ratio in special aesthetic regard, and worked it into their architecture, is unsubstantiated myth, based upon errors.

Laravel 2.0 Beta 1 Released! (Page 1) / Release Announcements / Laravel Forums

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:44:00 -0700

Laravel 2.0 Beta 1 Released! (Page 1) / Release Announcements / Laravel Forums:

Laravel is a new PHP framework that is seriously making me consider moving from CodeIgniter.

Video

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:44:00 -0700