Mac-based Webheads: What tools do you use?
Bridget got me rambling about Web development tools on another thread, and now I’m wondering what the kids are using to write their Web sites these days. Over there, we mentioned Nvu, Dreamweaver,...
View ArticleIntegrate Firefox with your text editor
I use Firefox as my main Web browser because I am totally hooked on its extensibility. It may not be the greatest browser in the whole, entire universe straight out of the box (though it’s a damn good...
View ArticleCoda
Has anyone been playing with Panic’s Coda yet? I just downloaded it yesterday, and I like it, so far, though I’m still feeling my way around. The CSS editor, in particular, makes sense to me. The tag...
View ArticleAm I in the wrong business?
I just spent something like three blissful hours doing my best to break a new module in Nextbook.org’s content management system, and then writing up a list of bugs and change requests. (The most...
View Article“If I spike you, you’ll know you’ve been spoken to.”
So, the other day, I was asked to set up HTML for an e-mail that someone else—let’s call them Agent B—is sending. Today Agent B sent us a preview of the e-mail, with the Agent B logo added at the top...
View ArticleMake hay while you can still hit the nail on the head.
I spent most of last week TypeCon, where I took three classes and attended about half of the presentations. The highlights were, hands down, the day I spent making mudpies at Hal Leader’s aptly named...
View ArticleFlash vs. substance
A few weeks ago, Rachel Sugar, one of my coworkers, had an idea—based on a book called Jews and Shoes—to present some illustrated factoids about footwear in Jewish tradition. Staff favorite Vanessa...
View ArticleHitler’s subtitler starts moonlighting in Web development?
And, speaking of parodies, did anybody else just get this e-mail from FontLab? The text continues quite reasonably, Sure, you could do it with bitmaps – and make the most important text on your web...
View ArticleNextbook’s swank new pad
My erstwhile coworkers have been toiling their little hearts out for months, rethinking and rebuilding Nextbook’s online magazine, the former Nextbook.org. The shiny new publication, which launched...
View ArticleDegristling the sausage
One of the things I do at my job is clean up and beautify e-books that have been produced by a “meatgrinder”—the sort of automated conversion process that an outsourcer uses. My company has worked...
View ArticleGetting to know you…🎶
(Cross-posted from Medium.) Nice dress, Julie. Tomorrow is my first day in the immersive curriculum of the Grace Hopper Academy full-stack JavaScript “bootcamp,” (as opposed to the part-time, remote...
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