Eric Meyer is well known as one of the stars and vocal proponents of css layout in website design. He is like unto a God. And he has spoken and said "Tables are good"

"Sometimes"

He was talking about some things that are really hard to do in css that are simple with tables, like footers. See reference here, aboutt he 5th paragraph ( Read more... )

Laura, Erich and I had been working for about an hour before we whipped out the templates and started to do serious damage. We made a new site, got confused about users, found a few bugs and then finally started flensing the templates. When we started to change the colors for different parts, she did something that totally floored me with its ( Read more... )

It's not often in any sort of team situation that you get to choose the shape of the team almost from scratch. with Bronwen and Gabe leaving, we can do this. Jason asked for comments about it, so I figured I'd list what I would do if I could put together any team for Gravity Switch. Here it is ( Read more... )

All technological arguments are ideological ( Read more... )

So, we have three system level problems, as I see it:

1. Cloning a whole machine: Like when we get a new machine, and need all the little programs. We can probably use a program called "Carbon Copy Cloner" for this
   
2. Cloning a user: This is to specifically solve your problem with a user that can get anywhere so it is easy to access you machine. There ( Read more... )

Something I've been annoyed with in our work environment is the different between the Macs and PCs ( Read more... )

Following up on the idea that we should review other CMS to see where we could be heading, PHP|A, my new favorite lover, gave me this link:

opensourcecms.com

It has a whole bunch of installs of other CMS solutions for you to try. Very savvy.

This month in PHP|A (php architect), they had a whole story about how to integrate Oracle and PHP. All the information that we found and more, now in one place. It went much more in depth than we would have been able to. The author definitely had a deeper knowledge of Oracle than we have ( Read more... )

Since we'll be using the GS CMS for things through the coming months, we should figure out how to tell when we've recouped the investment in it.

Just something to think about.

I can tell I'm still not comfortable with flash because I'm still grossly overestimating the time it takes to do things