For the June meeting of the HTML5 & CSS3 LA User Group, I spoke about XMLHttpRequest, Level 2 and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers. It’s always tough to present code. That goes double when you are sleep deprived, yet caffeinated and tongue-tied. In any case, the slides — which is really just one really long, really [...]
[30 Jun 2011]
A running list that I will update as I learn about new spaces. BlankSpaces (Mid-Wilshire) Boxaplex (WeHo) Coloft (Santa Monica) Indie Desk Klever Dog Next Space (Culver City) Office & Company (Pasadena)
[17 May 2011]
I did two ~15-minute talks at BarCampLA8: one on HTML5 Forms, and one impromptu, sorta half-a**ed talk on Opera Mini. I took some time to update and correct the Opera Mini slides based on some notes I had, but couldn’t get to (no WiFi at this year’s camp ) and questions I received during the [...]
[2 May 2011]
“The way I make sense of that is that women, for better or worse, live their lives with this idea that they might experience sexual assault at some point. There are public models of how to recover from rape. Men don’t have any expectation that this might happen to them. It’s very difficult to figure [...]
[8 Apr 2011]
I’m going, and because of the nature of a BarCamp — show up, sign up, give a talk — I will also be speaking. What’s BarCampLA? Barcamp is a ad-hoc technology conference where attendees are the speakers. Got something cool to share with your fellow tech geeks? Been working on a neat side project? Come [...]
[8 Apr 2011]
Examples of CSS gradients are cropping up in the wild, and with good reason. CSS gradients: don’t require the additional HTTP request of an image file. are easier to modify than image files. “weigh less” than most image files. That’s the ideal, at least. In their current state, gradients are actually a hot mess. The [...]
[6 Apr 2011]
Want to learn more about Opera Desktop, Mobile and Mini? Follow along with the official company product blogs. (Posted here as much for my benefit as for yours). Core Core is where all of the magic is made. Features and support get added to core and then make their way to Desktop, Mobile, Mini and [...]
[28 Mar 2011]
This isn’t definitive, of course. But it’s certainly one of the methods I use to find people on the internet. Start with a LinkedIn search. Enter the name of a company and watch what happens. You’d be surprised by how connected you are. Identify people who are in your network. You will be able to [...]
[14 Feb 2011]
“New York is among a group of metropolitan where the Great Migration created large black ghettos, and where very high levels of segregation have proved very resistant to change.” That’s John R. Logan of Brown University as quoted in the New York Times article Region Is Reshaped as Minorities Go to Suburbs (log in required). [...]
[15 Dec 2010]
Instead of being tempted to limit marriage, let us extricate the government entirely from the business of marriage. Let it be a civil union for all, and let marriage be a personal matter between you and your faith. That way there is room for gay marriage, Wiccan handfastings, and yes, traditional Christian marriage between one [...]
[10 Dec 2010]