Lunch, Tierra-style

[ 3.11.09 ] by Jennifer

MONDAY

Todd:
</lunch>

Jamie:
Todd – you forgot to put your open lunch tag…so the chat looks busted to me

Mike:
That explains why all I see are sandwiches

TUESDAY

Gerard:
<lunch>
</lunch>

Jonah:
<lunch time=”20″ hunger=”3″>

Todd:
that could have all been done with css

Mike:
don’t care what they say, lunch is easier using tables. sammiches fall right through a div.

WEDNESDAY

Todd:
<style type=”text/css”>
lunch { font-weight: bold; color: #000; }
</style>

<lunch>Going to eat</lunch>

Mike:
Can’t wait to see how he closes the block when he gets back …

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Are You Feeling the F.E.A.R. Today?

[ 2.13.09 ] by Dave

As part of a marketing campaign for the new action-horror video game F.E.A.R. 2, Warner Bros has dressed up some black cats in promotional gear to prowl the streets of London today (Friday the 13th).

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For the love of ligatures

[ 1.26.09 ] by Jennifer

Wouldn’t the internet be a fancier place if ligatures were a more common sight? Now that I spend most of my waking days looking at a screen, when I actually come across a ligature, it’s downright sexy.

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New! WPDB Profiling 1.0.2 Released

[ 1.12.09 ] by Todd

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

[ 1.9.09 ] by Doug

I just finished a great book last night, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware, and I thought I would write a little review while it is still fresh in my mind.

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New Years Habits

[ 1.5.09 ] by Doug

Looking for a quick and easy way to track all those New Year resolutions? Habits, an iPhone app from Lou Franco, lets you enter a set of recurring tasks and set how often you want to see them pop up in your to do list. It’s a great way to help those resolutions last past the second week on January.

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Code Snippet: Trimming text on word boundaries in PHP

[ 12.16.08 ] by Doug

I thought I’d share a code snippet that I wrote this morning to truncate long news titles that appear on the homepage of WNET’s worldfocus.org site. The code truncates on the nearest word boundary if the text is longer than the requested maximum length.

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Book Review: “Designing Audiences”

[ 12.12.08 ] by Jennifer

What happens to the way we design when audiences become co-creators? Designing Audiences tackles these questions in the form of a lively round table discussion, making for an enjoyable (and quick) read. How enjoyable? My stars after the jump.

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To solve a crime, press the “Home” key

[ 12.9.08 ] by Mike

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from television, it’s that no good news ever follows the words, “Hello, sir?  I’m Detective Smith from Such-and-Such County Sheriff’s Department. Do you have a moment?” It turns out that this isn’t true, though: In fact, this morning’s unsolicited call from a far-away detective actually made both of us [...]

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A Simple Desk Hack

[ 12.8.08 ] by Doug

As a developer I spend most of my day at my desk, designing, coding, emailing and talking on the phone. I work from home on a huge 70′s “executive” desk I dragged home from a Freecycle posting and which, after lugging it up to the second floor of my house, I believe is lined with lead and so as a bonus my legs are shielded from cosmic rays It’s main feature, other than Supervision protection, is a 5′x3′ flat desktop that easily supports my four monitor/three machine setup.

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