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Xargs tutorial I need to look at some day.

(I make no claims that this blog is interesting to anyone else, as this post and almost all others show!)
- jim 2-18-2009 3:28 pm [link] [1 comment]

The Golden Grid is another CSS framework (like the popular Blueprint and 960 grid.) I've yet to use one of these for anything, but I keep watching with hope. At this point my intuition is that these projects can save you a lot of time and headache, until you need to do something that a particular framework can't handle. And there's always some demand that breaks the grid. But I guess that's why I have a job so I shouldn't complain. Still, if I ever have time to update one of my personal project pages (like this one from the dark ages of the web) maybe I'll play around with one of these.
- jim 2-18-2009 3:15 pm [link] [add a comment]

Some insane people have developed a text editor that runs in the browser. It uses javascript to draw everything into a canvas tag.

Bespin builds on this API to recreate a text editor from scratch. That’s right; rather than use the native facilities of every modern operating system that give you word processing features for free, Bespin rolls them from scratch, including such basic constructs as a blinking cursor and text selection.
I mean, seriously, that's insane. But if they could make it work well it would be really cool. It's a text editor, but the goal is to focus on code editing and to deliver not just a usable product, but something you might choose over your current desktop code editor. It's like javascript's coming of age party in the sense that programmers are somehow magically drawn to writing code editors in whatever their language of choice is - but no one has had that urge until now with javascript.

Runs in FireFox as well as WebKit and Chrome nightlies. Project home page.
- jim 2-18-2009 3:02 pm [link] [1 comment]

Falai website launches. Sometimes you disagree with a client about something (like having a front page with no information on it,) but you have to do it anyway. Still, all together, I think it's a pretty nice site. Little bits of jquery made some slightly tricky stuff very easy to do.

(Just started resolving for me, so it's possible you might see the old "site under construction" version of the site still.)
- jim 2-17-2009 7:09 pm [link] [6 comments]

Eric Meyer on the deficiencies of CSS for layout. I've linked to a bunch of similar posts from others, and again I couldn't agree more. I'm linking again here because Meyer is the man; he explains the issue very well; and it's kind of funny how frustrated he is (in a "thank god someone else is this frustrated too" sort of way.)
- jim 2-17-2009 3:11 pm [link] [add a comment]

Very good presentation (audio with slides): An Intensive Exploration Of jQuery. Assuming you know a little something about javascript and the DOM this is a great place to start.
- jim 2-17-2009 2:39 pm [link] [1 comment]

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