Jon Hicks posted some awesome CSS for styling microformatted data.
I’m trying out his technique here. For example, here’s the paragraph about WordCamp from this post:
I had to explicitly disable the styling of hCards within hCalendars. In the above WordCamp hCalendar, the link to Brad is actually an hCard, and so the box around Brad was interfering with the box around the WordCamp hCalendar. Chris Casciano’s observed the same problem. With the nesting fix, things look awesome again.
Rakesh Agrawal posted his notes from a talk that Carl Sjogreen gave about how his team went about building Google Calendar. Some choice bits:
- First thing’s first — go talk to "real" customers
- sounds cliche but it’s amazing how little it’s really done
- focused on getting interactions and user model right before thinking about scale (a significant challenge for us)
- Save the pixel pushing (fine alignment on the user interface) for when you know you have it right
- Always have an eye on the minimum useful feature set that most people will use
- focus on what the web can do that paper can’t
- Timing launch properly
- launch early and often is the mantra of web companies
- it IS a fundamental structural differences that sets web companies apart from packaged software
- However the old adage of "you can only launch once" still applies
The highway to Jian Feng Shan, near Jinhua, China, where serapio is living these days.
From The Futility of Designing for an Alternate Past:
While it’s great to draw inspiration and ideas from the past, recreating the past in the hope that it becomes the future seems like a futile idea.
Wikipedia on the redshirt v. stormtrooper paradox:
Taking into consideration the nature of Redshirts in Star Trek (minor characters who usually die quickly after being introduced), the pseudo-philosophical question of "What would happen if Imperial Stormtroopers and Redshirts got in a firefight?" is well-known among fans of both series. It’s a paradox, because even though it’s a redshirt’s destiny to die quickly at the hands of the enemy, Stormtroopers simply wouldn’t be able to kill them due to their poor combat skills.