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Thirdframestudios office photos

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:57:00 +0000

It's been a couple of months since we moved into our new offices, but now they are finally finished and last week a couple of photos were taken.

The interior design was done by our own Jana Rot, the interior graphic design was done by the Zek crew and the phots were taken by Jaka Vin�ek. It is more than obvious that everybody involved did their work with passion.

My part of the office can be seen on the following image. And yes, the couch is used very often.

You can only imagine what our next offices will look like. Google who?

Condomless and counting

Sat, 3 May 2008 00:47:00 +0000

A friend of mine has started a social experiment to demonstrate how dangerous HIV is

By participating and spreading the virus, every individual at the same time helps to raise awareness of HIV presence around the globe and the importance of preventing its spread – by practicing safe sex and using a condom.

Want to find out more? Get infected and stay healthy by checking out the website.

Third anual CSS Naked Day

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:14:00 +0000

For one day I'm flashing my naked <body/> at the world.

The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good 'ol play on words. It's time to show off your <body>.

Perverts ;)

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:42:00 +0000

It's been another busy year for me, with loads of changes, but two of the biggest came right at the end.

I have decided to leave my position with Dhimahi and have joined a growing power called Thirdframestudios. There were many reasons for this, but the biggest was the need for change and the opportunity to work on different platforms and languages. All in all I will always cherish my time spent with Dhimahi and its crew.

My time at the university is coming to an end and this seemed to be the best time to start getting on my own two feet. I have moved out from my parents house and into an apartment with my long time girlfriend Petra. We moved just in time to spend our first Christmas at our own place. It's not a big apartment but it'll do, for now.

All that is left to say is have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2008. May it be as fruitful as the last.

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

Excerpt from "The War Is Over" by John Lennon.

Looking to buy a house in South Africa?

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:51:00 +0000

Sunninghill, upmarket northern suburb of Johannesburg, small villa in secure village complex, 2 bedrooms (possibility adding one more), 2 bathrooms, study, family room, modern open view kitchen, dining/lounge with open volume, covered/open patio, sundeck, private town-garden around, open/covered parking, built 2003, 200.000 €. Please send all inquiries to microlab@global.co.za.

Worth a look: jQuery talk

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 9:08:00 +0000

I'm giving a talk at the weekly developers meetup "Spletne urice" on the topic of jQuery this Wednesday. I'll try to cover most of the basic principles behind jQuery and have thrown in a nice little surprise. What? Come and see for yourself :)

Worth a look: Mobile Web Design

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 8:28:00 +0000

Cameron Moll just published a preview snippet and the table of contents for his upcoming book "Mobile Web Design" which will be made available in PDF format in a couple of days. And if you buy it on the day that it comes out, you could win an iPhone :) I'm game, hehe :)

Worth a look: jQuery for JavaScript programmers

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:21:00 +0000

Last week I decided to start using jQuery (I've actually ported a lot of code to it), and this article has strengthen my decision. Just to point out how popular the idea of chaining is - find Dustin Diaz's comment who has implemented this very feature for use with YUI.

Worth a look: Zend Framework 1.0.0 production release

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:25:00 +0000

After months of development the Zend Framework is finally ready for production.

Zend Framework
A powerful high-quality open-source framework focused on developing modern Web Applications and Web Services.

It is safe to say that Zend Framework is now the best class library available for PHP 5 web application development. Perhaps the next logical step would be to bundle this framework with future PHP releases. But that would be just wishful thinking i guess...

Announcing Unorderedlist

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:30:00 +0000

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of my newest creation - unorderedlist.net. For now the site will function mainly as a local web development job board, with other content bound to emerge soon.

This project has been a long time coming, as I have contemplated implementing a decent job board on several occasions. After recently talking things over with a few of the local developers, I decided the time is more than right.

All of the job ads can be added free of charge, but for companies which feel they are in desperate need of new blood I have set up a payed service (the selected add remains on the top of the list for a month) for a small fee.

Also an API is in the works which will enable users to add, fetch and show only the ads they want to display.

Marko Mrdjenovic (a local web developer and brainstorming buddy) has already jumped on the bandwagon and created a Yahoo pipe to get all the jobs in a JSON feed. More info.

T-shirts with the UL (unorderedlist) logo have been designed but are currently out of stock. A new batch should be available fairly soon. For now you can admire them on flickr.

Worth a look: Reset reloaded

Wed, 2 May 2007 10:48:00 +0000

Eric Meyer has released the final version of his reset styles CSS. I've been thinking that my current approach of * { margin:0; padding: 0 } will not go down well. Nice to have guys like Eric to watch our backs :)

Worth a look: How to prevent HTML tables from becoming too wide

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:17:00 +0000

Roger solves a problem I haven't had the time to solve yet. I believe that without using javascript or inserting odd wbr tags into the content overflow:hidden seems to be the only quick solution for this problem.

Worth a look: 35 Designers x 5 Questions

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 9:03:00 +0000

I've been following Smashing Magazine for a while now and I must say that they impress me with each and every new article. And 35 Designers x 5 Questions is no different. They've gathered 35 of the worlds top designers and asked them each 5 questions (on design, CSS, typography, books and design magazines). A must read!

Worth a look: PHP 5.2.1 Released

Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:51:00 +0000

PHP 5.2.1 was released earlier today which is a major stability and security enhancement of the 5.X branch, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. The new release amends over 180 bugs from previous versions.

Current state of the web in Slovenia

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:10:00 +0000

With the web 2.0 boom expanding to all countries of the world (yes, even Slovenia), you would expect that web standards are spreading as well. But a quick glance at this years Izidor (annual award for web excellence) shows that something is rotten (or rotting) in the Slovenian web.

Nominees spreadsheet

To make this evident I have put together a simple spreadsheet of this years nominees, checking their compliance with W3C guidelines. Every nominee was checked for:

DTD use
proper charset definition
used layout technique
valid (X)HTML
valid CSS
valid RSS (as this years competition motto is "social networking", RSS was checked as it is at the very cornerstone of this movement)
what happens if the images are turned off (can a visitor still make sense of the site)
what happens if Javascript support is disabled (can a visitor still use the website - graceful degrading)
WCAG and 508 accessibility

Results

The results were very disappoiting to say the least. Out of the 31 nominees a whopping 9 have not defined their DTD, only 15 decided to use UTF-8 character encoding (5 don't even define the charset), only 6 use CSS for layout, only 2 have valid (X)HTML. Accessibility seems to be an unimportant aspect for all but 2 nominees (feels like its 1999 all over again).

DTD

Charset

Layout

XHTML validation

CSS validation

But there is a bright spot in the spreadsheet - Pediatri�na klinika. The mentioned website passed almost all judging categories with flying colors. Apart from a bit too much inline Javascript (which is a crime in its self), this website is a winner from a developers standpoint (not to mention for their innovative approach to modeling the donation network).

Conclusion

Not to hold anything against the folks that organize Izidor, but I belive that candidates should be checked for compliances to the most basic W3C recommendation before they are accepted. Perhaps the motto for next years award should be "Accessible Social Networking", but then I guess nobody would dare enter...