Category: Web Development

  • The One Where I Read The Mule Blog

    I stumbled across the Mule Design blog yesterday. It’s good. I had a minor epiphany (is there a word for that?) when I read this: When a client says, “I don’t like green”, most designers translate the sentence into “You must change the green.” But no one asked you to, did they? They merely made…


  • My Overly Simplified Take on Responsive Design

    31% of American adults who have cell phones use their phones for the majority of their Internet access. ~ via LukeW The case for responsive web design is a no-brainer! Only a few years ago stake-holders would absolutely insist on IE6 compatibility with much much smaller user-base. 2.5% or higher was the threshold I’d commonly…


  • Doc Hazzard’s Amazing UX Emporium

    This is probably the best NMM talk I’ve seem. In the words of @cole_peters. https://twitter.com/cole_peters/status/215242048259895297 Here’s an archive of the live stream for those of you how missed it. Watch live streaming video from nmmlive at livestream.com


  • MySQL Full-Text Search Is Broken!

    …and has been for 8 years. I came across MySQL bug #2095 today: full-text search for words containing hyphens won’t work Submitted: 11 Dec 2003 6:15 Hyphen ‘-‘ characters break literals at the moment. A search for something like “GATA-D22S690” finds all entries containing GATA and not the full hyphenated text. ~ Link MySQL disputes…


  • Rethinking Passwords

    Made my first post over at the company blog. Thought it would only be appropriate to give it some link love over here. My thoughts on the future of password: Rethinking Passwords.