Flyover Country

Mike Ash, a developer at Rogue Amoeba, published an article a while back about subclassing the Cocoa class NSCell in a way that doesn’t make you want to stab your eyeballs with a pen. Having suffered through a lot of this with iRooster, I recognize and appreciate the value present in this article, and I [...]

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Adam Greenfield, Aaron Gustafson, Jason Santa Maria, Khoi Vinh, Eric Meyer, and Jeffrey Zeldman are coming to Seattle for a two-day web design conference. It starts September 18th at the Bell Harbor conference center, just down the street from the Edgewater Hotel, where the Beatles stayed once in 1964.
Early Bird registration is $499 [...]

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According to CNN, Haley Joel Osment (18 years old, now…creepy) was in a car accident a few days ago. Supposedly he hit a brick pillar in his 1995 Saturn (?!?).

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Sara Ford, formerly the de facto head of Accessibility testing for all of Visual Studio (and a Black Belt in Karate, so don’t mess with her), published a handy-dandy utility for verifying the correctness of common MSAA properties and roles on GotDotNet back in 2004. Source is included in VB.NET-form.
MSAA, or Microsoft Active [...]

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I am a huge, huge, huge advocate of correctly supporting mnemonics and keyboard shortcuts throughout your application. It was, for this reason, that I was very excited when I first learned that you could do the exact same thing for web pages. Movable Type uses this, as do some other websites.
What irritates me [...]

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An article from Business Week discusses the innovation going into PCs for the Windows Vista timeframe. My opinion? It’s about damned time. Why is it that we have to settle for dull, ugly, oversized beige hunks of plastic when the competition has shown that a computer can look beautiful?
From the article:
“We want people [...]

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As everyone and their mother probably knows, now, Microsoft is planning on releasing an iPod competitor in time for Christmas 2006. According to Engadget, Zune is actually the name of the brand and the device, and there are, supposedly, more Zune devices coming in 2007.
What Zune brings to the table is an ‘integrated [...]

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I just found this on YouTube: it’s a video of a new feature with unintended consequences in the video game, MLB 2k6. Basically, a player can jump up to the top of a stadium wall to catch a ball that would otherwise be a home run. Unfortunately, this also seems to apply to the 37′ [...]

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I’m sure this will come as old-hat to everyone out there, but on the off-chance you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend checking out and playing around with the CSS Zen Garden. CSS Zen Garden is a demonstration of what is achievable through correctly separating your content from the accompanying presentation, and the results really [...]

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Generally, most people don’t associate great design with Microsoft, but the company has been making great strides in this area for the past few years. I just found a link to the official Microsoft Design website through Jensen Harris this morning, and wanted to share it.
Disappointingly, I don’t see any screenshots of Visual [...]

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