Monthly Archives: October 2009

New in the Twitter gem: Lists!

Published: October 31st, 2009
I believe Twitter’s new list feature is big. In fact, I like the idea so much we built our own list of US congressfolk last year. Now, opportunities abound for everyone to share their favorite tweeters in topical lists. While the Lists API is still in alpha draft status, I couldn’t resist baking in some of [...]

Build a WordPress theme with Thematic

Published: October 29th, 2009
In a previous post, we looked at the new trend of theme frameworks. Today we’ll build a WordPress theme step-by-step using the Thematic theme framework.

Slides: Hands on with Ruby and MongoDB

Published: October 28th, 2009
I had the opportunity to drive down to Austin yesterday and meet all the great folks at Austin on Rails and talk about MongoDB. Here are the slides from my talk.

From themes to theme frameworks

Published: October 27th, 2009
Back in the 1990’s, early in my career, I recall the dream of software components. One day, we would all drag a few components to a design surface, configure some properties, and quickly stitch together new applications. Reuse was our god. Software vendors cranked out shiny new idols with new major version numbers at least [...]

@font-face made easy with Font Squirrel

Published: October 22nd, 2009
When designing the new Orrka site, I wanted more punch in my typography. Let’s face it, web typography is boring. It’s 2009 and as and industry I think we web designers have gotten our money’s worth out of Helvetica and its ilk.