30 September, 2007
in Technical and Design.
I’ve just come across SitePoint’s design contests site. It is presumably intended to be a way for smaller businesses to be able to choose from a variety of creative solutions for a fixed “prize” amount. Sorry, but I’m just not a fan of this concept at all.
This is not just another in a recent trend toward “design contests” but a whole community site purpose-built around them. The otherwise respectable web development authority, SitePoint has become the posterchild for speculative work. I find this quite disappointing form for SitePoint.
Continue reading ‘SitePoint builds a crowdsourcing community’
We interrupt the travelogues to talk about some geeky stuff that’s been going on around these parts.
I’ve recently been using grids of thumbnails to link to Flickr photos as they relate to blog posts (e.g. my previous post). One thing I’ve wanted to do is find a way to show these images without sending viewers over to Flickr and away from my site for fear that they might get lost (if they are navigationally challenged) or simply be pulled into something more interesting and not return. This would be a good excuse to add a little Script.aculo.us and AJAX sweetness to my blog posts.
Continue reading ‘A JavaScript overlay image gallery’
22 August, 2007
in Personal, Travel and Featured.
Having settled in here in London I must admit I miss Mexico. Quite a bit. What an awesome place to visit. Mexico was the culture shock and the push out of our comfort zone that we had been craving toward the end of our time in the States. It was the first place where, by and large, the population (including much of the hospitality industry) spoke very little English. It was time to immerse ourselves in Latino culture, the start of around four months of being around Spanish-speaking, Salsa-dancing, passionate and friendly people of various Latin-American destinations…
Day 112 - 117, Mexico City
After saying goodbye to Carter and Jade who put us up for another night in their funky converted office apartment in Dallas, 15 March saw us fly from Dallas-Fort Worth to Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City. With our trusty Lonely Planet Guide to Mexico in hand, Meg and I took a cab to the Centro Historico of Mexico City to Hostel Moneda, around the corner from the Zócalo, the Palacio Nacional (National Palace) and the Metropolitan Cathedral. In Mexico, every city and town has a Zócalo, which is the town square, usually in the Centro Historico (historic centre). The Zócalo of Mexico City (also known as the Plaza de la Constitución) is one of the largest plazas in the world.
Continue reading ‘Mexico City, Mexico’
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