Author Archives: sam

Bootstrap, a CSS Framework from Twitter

By sam | Published: January 19, 2012

I ran across the Bootstrap, from Twitter today. What beautiful-looking code! This could be a great place to start with for a new WP theme or for any other site I’m working on. [via: wpMail.me and wpCandy]

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By sam | Published: January 11, 2012

State of the web: of apps, devices, and breakpoints by Jeffrey Zeldman  

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By sam | Published: December 13, 2011

WordPress 3.3 was just released. Make sure you get your update!

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Spell check all text fields in Firefox

By sam | Published: November 30, 2011

Firefox has a built-in spell checker, but by default it only works on text fields of more than one line. However, you can make it spellcheck all fields with the following steps: Start up Firefox. Type “about:config” into the address bar in Firefox and hit enter. Click “I’ll be careful, I promise!” (if the warning [...]

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Book: The Elements of Typographic Design

By sam | Published: November 10, 2011

The other day I received and unwrapped a copy of one of my favorite books: The Elements of Typographic Design. Pure joy. I first discovered Elements from the The Elements of Typographic Design Applied to the Web so long ago that I’m not sure how I stumbled upon it. The impression it made was permanent [...]

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Context, Content and Users – The 3 Pillars of Information Architecture

By sam | Published: November 4, 2011

I’ve been reading Information Architecture (3rd Ed) by Peter Morville & Louis Rosenfeld (who, by the way, is speaking at ConFab 2012). In chapter 2, they introduce context, content and users as the three pillars of information architecture. Although it might be an over-simplification, I think it’s a helpful one. It’s easy to remember, easy [...]

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ConFab2012 – The Content Strategy Conference

By sam | Published: November 2, 2011

Registration opens for ConFab2012 – The Content Strategy Conference tomorrow. Last year it sold out and had rave reviews. I’m hoping to attend and expand my horizons a bit on content strategy. See you there!

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Installing PHP on OS X for web development

By sam | Published: October 17, 2011

There are a number of ways to install PHP as a part of apache on OS X. For a while I used MAMP and a couple of scripts to start and stop the processes and point htdocs to the current directory. Then I ran into a problem with MAMP’s PHP not supporting connections to MS [...]

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A new book by Michael Ondaatje

By sam | Published: October 13, 2011

In TIME mag I found that Michael Ondaatje has a new novel out called The Cat’s Table. Years ago in college I took a class on Canadian literature, which might at first blush sound kinda limited, but was quite the opposite. Ondaatje was one of the authors I ran across and ended up electing to [...]

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By sam | Published: July 25, 2011

The view out the back door this summer.

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