http://blog.suredev.com Tales of a small-time web shop. Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:52:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been using only Apple products for a couple of years now, and for the most part it's been a pretty rewarding experience. That said, I know exactly what my least favorite part of the Mac experience is: its light-text-on-a-dark-background rendering in the web browser is gross. How can there be ... http://blog.suredev.com/2010/01/fixing-that-awful-light-on-dark-text-rendering-on-macs/ It was only a matter of time, but I've created a second TextMate theme, "Clouds Midnight," a dark-background version my popular first theme, Clouds. Download Clouds Midnight now. Like Clouds, this theme was built to work nicely with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. As always, please provide feedback if you use it ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/10/clouds-midnight-another-textmate-theme/ Sometimes creativity can manifest itself in weird ways. I've created a new TextMate theme called "Clouds." It's a light theme — as you may have guessed — that starts with a white background and grows from there. Download Clouds now. It was build to work nicely with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/07/clouds-a-textmate-theme/ Encapsulation is a concept used in object-oriented programming that allows code to scale and be refactored without taking down the entire system. In coding, encapsulation states that my code can call a function (giving it the required parameters) and it will get the same result back every time exactly as ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/04/encapsulation-in-project-management/ Today I took the time to streamline the new SureDev site and actually investigated what each aspect of the YSlow Firebug extension was complaining about. Since the solutions to each were relatively easy to implement but a bit scattered to find around the web, here's a full list of the ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/04/shutting-up-yslow/ *Beta, of course. :) Version 2 of the site has been posted live for the world to see, and although there are still a bunch of tweaks that need to be made, things seem stable enough to release. IE users, I can't promise you anything yet, but I'm working on it. [caption ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/04/meet-suredev-v2/ There's been a growing trend lately amongst people that have more than one Twitter account: unwanted retweeting. Here's something to keep in mind while you walk the line of multiple Twitter accounts. The Accounts I'm Talking About My target for this complaint is actually people just like me: I have a personal ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/04/retweet-etiquette/ [caption id="attachment_33" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Shattered glass and everything."][/caption] It's important to have, so thus: tonight's project was spent creating a page-not-found page. I went against the grain on this one, choosing to berate my user rather than even remotely try to help them. Why? For one thing, they should never see ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/03/anatomy-of-a-404/ I've been told more than once that project management is like spinning plates; you've got to stay attentive to keep them all going without letting anything drop. Taking a step back, I see that all areas of life are like that — except riding a bike of course, the cycling ... http://blog.suredev.com/2009/03/spinning-plates/