Upgrades

2010-02-26 18:29:14

I\'ve made some small changes to my blogging system here.

The comment box no longer kills paragraph spacing
Dates are now shown as something that is readable to most humans.
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The Application (Part 1?)

2010-02-22 21:34:20

I just sent in an application for a full time, salaried position at a company in Rochester. They were looking for a "Rockstar Front End Developer", and specified several times that it is not

One of Those Weeks

2010-02-19 22:06:15

This was one of those weeks. One of those weeks where every deal falls apart. That kind of week. Here\'s the story. At the end of last week, and the beginning of this week,

Content Management

2010-02-09 19:10:32

My last post was a personal development post. It related mostly to things I\'d like to do that won\'t get me (immediately?) paid, but would be good portfolio builders and potential business opportunities. This

Making Time

2010-02-02 16:16:24

I have things I want to do. I\'m sure all web developers have pet projects, and I\'m sure a lot of those pet projects, unfortuately, get pushed aside for paid work. That\'s what\'s happened

That Old Feeling

2010-01-22 02:42:22

Sometimes, I feel like a superhero. No kidding, there are times when I get the perfect call (or email, or IM, whatever). It\'s somebody with a problem that suits my skillset and preferences

On Freelancing

2010-01-11 17:42:18

On Security

I\'m in the process of squashing bugs in an application I wrote that, to say the least, uses suspicious technology. And what I mean by that is it uses elements

Back End Redundancy

2009-11-02 22:33:35

This post is not about data redundancy. It is not about RAID, or backing up your data. These are good practices, and I have nothing against them. In fact, I\'m all for them, but I won\'t go on any further

jQuery slideDown Menus

2009-10-28 01:44:12

jQuery Slide-Down Menus I\'m sure there are many many many jQuery libraries that quickly and easily allow you to make slide-down menus. I know this, and yet I don\'t use them. I prefer to write my

Working With Pixels

2009-10-19 19:38:47

As a freelancer, I do a lot of remote work. I don\'t have to go in to an office, or travel to see clients - at least, not too often. This means I can work in an environment where I feel comfortable

State of the Ryan

2009-10-05 20:25:22

I really have no idea what to write about. Let\'s just get that out there right now. As of starting this post, I\'m going in blind. I haven\'t really had any special experiences or realisations in the

Community Building and Comment Systems

2009-09-28 15:11:23

In addition to my current contracts, which include site maintenance, PHP coding, and site design, I\'ve been creating a site related a new game called Eclipse

Interfaces

2009-09-21 17:15:48

We\'ve all used the term interface, and we all know what about GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) or APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). I think a lot of us even know, in a visceral sort

Distinctions

2009-09-14 14:05:12

In the world of web, there are many terms for many things. Some of these things are very specific, and some of these things are kind of nebulous, and a lot of the time, the terminology doesn\'t matter,

Elastic Designs

2009-09-07 15:04:23

On Saturday, while working from one of my favorite cafés, I created a fourth design for R.K. Hite & Co. Apparently my previous designs had not been exactly what they wanted, and though I

Try, Try Again

2009-08-31 14:37:05

It\'s been said many many times for many many years, but it remains true: If at first you don\'t succeed, try again. It applies to so many activities and aspects of life, and web design and development

A Variety...

2009-08-24 14:53:44

I have a few things to talk about this week. I\'ve suddenly found myself with a good amount of work on the docket. I\'m designing and building a website for the small corporation a friend works for

Amazon Web Services - SimpleDB

2009-08-17 16:48:53

Last week, I got a message from a potential client on oDesk, asking if we could set up a Skype call to see if we could get a project going. Well, yeah. Robert

Freelance vs. Employment

2009-08-10 13:14:58

I am, currently, making an attempt at being a freelance web developer. Unfortunately, I think a lot more of my time has gone into the "freelance" part of it than that "web developer"

Browser Bugs and Open Source

2009-08-03 21:14:59

Last week, I mentioned briefly that I had discovered and reported a bug in the WebKit rendering engine, used by both

A Blog All My Own

2009-07-27 18:38:06

And I do mean all my own. I don\'t have that much of a web presence. I\'m not that into Facebook, I don\'t have a MySpace account, and I don\'t have many message boards that I regularly