Less is more

2009 December 01

Hopefully you read my previous post about Sass and CSS preprocessors and felt my angst toward learning a new syntax. I've been using LessCSS for about a week and I'm really impressed. For starters, no new syntax to learn. This is simply an augmentation of existing CSS syntax. You get mixins, nested rules, and most importantly, variables. You also get operations but I've yet to find them that useful. Here's my critique

Sass isn't for me

2009 November 30

I've been window shopping the CSS preprocessor world the last week or so. Sass seems to be everyone's new bicycle. It hasn't won me over and here's why...

Interface harmony

2009 October 25

Interface consistency is one of those things that, if done correctly, should go unnoticed. I've slowly been working on a new interface for a side project and thought it'd be a treat to share my approach.

Working with Python and RabbitMQ

2009 May 20

I recently installed RabbitMQ to handle some message queuing needs at Readernaut and thought I'd share how everything came together. If you'd like to learn more about RabbitMQ please read the excellent Rabbits and Warrens.

Aspen Simulator

2008 March 13

As much as I'd like to blog about my trip to Austin and SXSW last week I'm just too excited over the iPhone SDK goodies that dropped last Thursday.

Flash, meet H.264

2007 December 04

Adobe just released Update 3 of Flash Player 9. This is HUGE. Streaming video is no longer a laughing matter. Streaming High Definition video will become common place and it starts today.