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Grow up.

Thursday (24/8/06), 2:35 pm. 1 comment.

I‘ve decided to take a quick break from my Making Code Poetry series after reading this little flamewar. In response to it, I have just one thing to say: Who really cares?

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Has accessibility been taken too far?

Tuesday (22/8/06), 5:10 pm. No comments.

Jeff ponders accessibility, and he’s got a point.

Making Code Poetry Part II: Visual Form

Tuesday (22/8/06), 3:18 pm. 7 comments.

Visual form within code is important when it comes to readability, usability, accessibility, and all those other “bility”s. Many of the W3C’s standards give some visual form guidelines to follow, and there are many more besides these which can help in development.

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How to amuse yourself at the expense of people trying to sell computers

Monday (21/8/06), 9:36 am. No comments.

How to amuse yourself at the expense of people trying to sell computers – Wow, just wow.

Akismet

Sunday (20/8/06), 11:52 pm. 2 comments.

My WordPress Dashboard greated me with this nice little message today: “Akismet has protected your site from 4000 spam comments.” I think that was worth the 2 minutes I spent downloading and installing the thing.

Making Code Poetry Part I

Sunday (20/8/06), 9:00 pm. 6 comments.

Code is Poetry. It’s a phrase found in WordPress’s footer that should be true but often isn’t. At 9rules somebody asked if code really is poetry–I say that not all code is poetry, but all code should (and can) be poetry.

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Hot or Not Designs

Thursday (17/8/06), 9:42 am. 1 comment.

Hot or Not Designs – Just thought I’d mention that I’m addicted to this site.

No internet, no computers, no blogging…What was I thinking?

Wednesday (16/8/06), 3:51 pm. 7 comments.

Yeah, I’m going camping tomorrow through Sunday. This means no internet for like 4 days. No computers, either (too bad I don’t have that MacBook Pro yet).

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My Personal Prioritizing Formula

Sunday (13/8/06), 5:05 pm. 5 comments.

A problem that I’m sure all web developers, entrepreneurs, and internet geeks alike all share is deciding which projects to work on. You’ve got the client work, your latest blog post, that sweet JavaScript widget, your latest Rails app…How to choose?

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FlickrBlogged

Tuesday (8/8/06), 5:25 pm. 1 comment.

FlickrBlog just gave some link love to my Flickr Badge API Docs. Sure they spelled my name “Elliot Swat,” but they got the link right, so I suppose that’s still good.

Thanks for the link! :)

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