http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com Things that are shiny Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:15:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following on from my quick attempt at using YQL to trawl through Senate and House of Reps debates on the Australian internet filter being proposed I thought I'd stick the code up here as some people might find it useful to see how you can use YQL in just about ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/yql-javascript-php-example/ Still in the process of gathering more information about Senator Conroys wrong-headed scheme to try and censor the web of 'Refused Classification' content. Currently the hardest thing so far has been to try and get a clear definition of what the hell 'Refused Classification' actually encompasses. Seems to vary greatly ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/australian-internet-web-filter/ Part 1 of this HTML wireframing tutorial can be found here We'll take these changes one at a time. The first is an easy fix and makes sense; we can do it just by moving the markup in the page around – no problems there, this doesn't move us outside the realm ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/html-wireframing-example/ Install aptana for eclipse Get the zen-coding plugin for aptana from the google repo Create a new aptana project in eclipse's base project directory called zencoding (or whatever). Create a directory inside that project called scripts. Paste the files and lib directory from the downloaded plugin into the scripts directory. Restart eclipse (although that ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/install-zen-coding-snippets-for-aptana/ Most websites nowadays incorporate some kind of community aspect that allows users to provide feedback to the site's owners and to each other. In fact, 'building community' is one of the most important aspects of any modern website. Websites that focus on their community or group nature are described as ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/the-design-patterns-of-social-media/ Purpose: The nature of the internet is that not everyone will receive JavaScript in the way intended. Therefore JavaScript should be applied in a way that enhances the page, rather than requiring it. Use un-obtrusive JavaScript Type: Maintenance, robustness, accessibility The three pillars of web development are: Content and structure: HTML         <h1>Main ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/js-accessibility-guidelines/ I think I've watched this video a dozen times and each time I enjoy as much as I did the first time I saw it. The embedded YouTube video looks strange because it uses the accessible media player I created using the YouTube API and I haven't created any skins ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/clay-shirky-talks-about-finding-the-time/ Here's an interesting flowchart from the United States Airforce on how to approach social media taking an interest in your organisation. [caption id="attachment_171" align="alignnone" width="500"][/caption] http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/respond-to-social-media/ A debug stylesheet I threw together to try and give a few basic rules for helping to debug css issues. @charset "utf-8"; @media all { /** * DEBUG RULES: For easy debugging. Just stick id="debug" in the tag * and then the debugging classes you want to turn on. Options are: * ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/debugging-css/ I've been spending a bit of spare time contributing to the designing Social Interfaces Wiki, which I'm really intrigued by. I'm a strong believer that selecting certain usability patterns for a site will direct the type of user personality that you're likely to get and I'm very much interested to ... http://www.hallofbrightcarvings.com/designing-social-interfaces-wiki/