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A letter to facebook

Filed in rants,web development, 5/25/2011, May 25 2011 | 1:36 pm by

Dear facebook.com, Your photo management interface is inexcusably bad. In what universe does it make sense to “Edit Album Info” in order to move a photo to a different album? Why can’t you move a photo to an album unless it already exists? Why can’t you create an album without uploading photos? Why is your only [...]

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You’re doing it wrong

Filed in web design,web development, 5/10/2011, May 10 2011 | 8:35 pm by

There is no excuse for asking for a third-party password on your website. You’re doing it wrong. That authentication must happen on the third-party site. –  Jeremy Keith  in  The password anti-pattern Words to design by.

Where in Hell did that space come from?

Filed in technogeek,web development, 11/5/2004, November 5 2004 | 12:11 am by

A few months ago I spent a long weekend cursing margins and padding and css layout and computers and also Google (*gasp*). The reason I was practicing my invective was about 12 pixels of innocent space that decided to take up residence between my header and my content. It was definently NOT supposed to be [...]

Im-Press-ive

Filed in technogeek,web development, 7/25/2004, July 25 2004 | 5:41 pm by

Well. I switched to WordPress. It’s a lovely bit of application and so far I’m happy with it. The infamous five minute install left me feeling excited and full of a newfound respect for server-side installs and open source code. 1 week, several hacks and hundreds of search results later…. the feeling isn’t as strong [...]