Ok, so I don't know kungf u but I was able to make it to the Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui panel. The first half of the presentation was pretty interesting. Jeremy Keith used some screen captures from the Matrix to help illustrate his points or at least make his presentation look cool. He talked about how there is a fine line when ...

After dragging ourselves out of the hotel room (it seems that Austin has some sort of mystical property that makes you super-tired in the morning. Combine that with the time zone change = 2 grumpy coders.  2 grumpy coders + Starbucks in the convention center = :) ). After getting some caffeine we hit the doors running and made ...

Last night I finished my taxes.  Though it was no small feat it seemed almost pleasurable - before you call the IRS / local asylums (one in the same) let me explain: A coworker turned me on to an awesome book by Robert Hoekman, Jr named designing the obvious.  Hoekman talks about practical approaches to designing web ...

A few months back I converted our site template from a table-based layout to a standards based design.  This was not a trivial task, in essence I "touched" every page in our app, which is more than 300 pages.  Recently we released major pieces of functionality, both using standards based html and heavy client-side functionality ...

In a perfect world developers would have an infinite amount of time to create the most elegant, perfect, scalable and enterprise-quality architecture/solution ever. This, my friend, would rival the airplane. Heck, it might even rival God's greatest creation. Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news: this is not a perfect world. Time, in ...