So I’m back to the CSS blues I encounter every time I try to follow the ‘web standards’ crowd. I’ve got a relatively straightforward problem which is solved with using tables to arrange images, but seems utterly broken trying to use tableless CSS. Perhaps someone here will set me straight.
I am displaying search [...]

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Some area tech guys put together SocialCarolina.org, a site which maps what’s going on across the various social networks in the RTP/RDCH area.  At least, that’s what I think it does, and if it’s not doing that, it should :)  In any event, it’s a slick looking site with some definite potential.  Check it out!
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Clients hire web developers (or their firms) because we are the experts. When I call someone in to fix my air conditioner I don’t let them work for awhile and then tell them they are doing their job wrong and I know the problem is the compressor. They are the expert, not me. When a [...]

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I just got back from our new Refresh* meeting (”Refresh The Triangle”) - http://refreshthetriangle.org/. This was held at Viget Labs, and they were the initial organizers. We had a stab at a Refresh group a year ago, but it didn’t get off the ground. There were something like 30 people at tonight’s [...]

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This is a general question, but possibly aimed at the PHP crowd more because it’s often easier to cut corners when doing development than in other languages.
“Cutting corners” can mean almost anything from skipping unit tests to skipping documentation to lax variable names to almost anything that you know isn’t optimal but you skip for [...]

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I’ve just opened up MatchOrClash.com, a ‘hot-or-not’-style voting site for fashion pairings.  Right now I’ve only got a small subset of shoes and handbags from Amazon.com, but will look to grow that tomore types of clothing in the near future.   As it stands right now the project is very early stages - functional, but not [...]

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Friend Joe Stump recently (as in today, I think) launched correlate.us, a feed aggregator which brings together your personal feeds from delicious, twitter, flickr and digg.  I believe more feed streams will be forthcoming, but for now it’s hitting some of the larger players.  In a nutshell, it’s a way to see not only tagged [...]

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I got to meet Dr Laurie Williams this evening at the Agile RTP group. I’m not sure I can get her slides, or link to them, but if I can, I will. She presented quite a lot of empirical evidence regarding the benefits of test driven development. Lots of good questions about [...]

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At our local web meetup group tonight, the topic was colors. The group was great, and there were a lot of good design tips on colors and color selection. One good tip was when choosing colors for design, try the colors on a black background, then one a white background. You’ll get [...]

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I was fortunate enough to catch the “Agile Testing Practices” talk by Jared Richardson last night at the trijug.  A couple colleagues wanted to attend, but couldn’t so I recorded it.  With Jared’s permission I’m linking to it here as an ogg file.  I cleaned it up with the ‘levelator’ program from gigavox, but it [...]

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