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Blog URL Changing

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:44:00 -0400

I'm going to leave this blog live for a while until traffic moves over. But I'm going to run all my blogging through one place (it has been separated between a couple different places for a while).New URL: http://blog.drisgill.comRSS of all items: ht...

Big Changes for Randy

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49:00 -0400

I mentioned recently that I had been blogging less because of a side project I was working on. Time to let the cat of the bag. I've been working with SharePoint 2007 a lot lately, specifically from a branding and UI customization standpoint. This has...

FaceInHole.com

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:22:00 -0400

While its name sounds risque, FaceInHole.com is actually my new favorite website on the interwebs. Basically, they provide a bunch of photos (movie posters, famous people, funny shots, etc) that have the subject's face expertly masked. You select a p...

GettyImages Moodstream

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:33:00 -0400

GettyImages?is using?Flash / Flex to make a really cool?"multimedia mood ring" for lack of a better description. You click your mood from a dial selector and then random intriguing videos and images fade in and out over a soundtrack that ma...

New Silk Icons!

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:45:00 -0400

Everyone is familiar with Mark James (FamFamFam) and his famous free icon set known as Silk. It contains over a 1000 16x16 PNG icons that are incredibly useful. Well, some folks have taken it upon themselves to further the collection:Damien Guard's 4...

Yahoo Design Stencil Kit

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:38:00 -0400

Say what you will about Yahoo, but they have some very cool projects that aren't at all search related. One such project is the Yahoo Design Pattern Library. They have taken it upon themselves to strive for creating a robust set of standard visual to...

Haven't Posted in a While

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:42:00 -0400

Just realized how much I've been neglecting the old blog... This is probably due to a new side project I've been working on for the past few months. I had forgotten how much pain writing a book really is! But, more on that later. For now, here are so...

IE8 Beta 1 Render Mode

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:59:00 -0400

After studying the IE8 Beta 1 a little, I found it surprising that sometimes the render mode that it uses for your site degrades to IE7 rendering without being completely obvious. This is interesting because, if you are not careful, it can confuse yo...

Get IE8 Developer Beta Now

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:24:00 -0400

I'm guessing this is worthy of a VM install, rather than a home machine install, but it looks like the IE8 team has released the early beta today:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htmI'm pretty excited to se...

Radiohead: In Rainbows Remixed

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:15:00 -0400

I've been listening to the internet released Radiohead album In Rainbows for a few weeks now, and its filled with some great stuff... So I was excited to see this remix project officially released. If you are a fan of Radiohead or the Danger Mouse / ...

Apple Air?

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:15:00 -0400

Early rumors are saying that the new ultra-portable MacBook is going to be named the Apple Air. I'm wondering if the Adobe Air?marketing team choked on their coffee when they heard that one. The two products don't really compete (if anything they enh...

BitNami Packages Popular Open Source Apps for Easy Install

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:41:00 -0400

If you have ever wanted to try Ruby on Rails, Drupal, Wordpress, Trac, or many other open source applications, but have held off due to concerns over your lack of experience installing linux or open source windows apps, BitNami has a solution for you...

Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:32:00 -0400

This website attempts to answer the age old question of whether cross browser UI needs to be identical. Though, I question their methodology for answering the question, I applaud the effort.http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/...

Peyton Manning vs. Chuck Norris Poll

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:08:00 -0400

For those wondering, the poll on the right is the product of a wager at work. A typically sane coworker is claiming Peyton Manning is more popular / more recognizable than Chuck Norris. Please weight in with your opinion so I can officially put this ...

iSwitched Part 2 - Leopard Upgrade and Vista Boot Camp

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:55:00 -0400

Now that I've had a few days to play with the Macbook Pro, I'm starting to get used to the right click dealy-o (certainly one of my biggest downsides so far). For those that don't know you can control click or do two fingers on the mouse pad to doubl...