by Gene Crawford | Dec 21, 2009 | News
We had the good fortune to sit down for a discussion with Kevin Burg & Fred Yates over Skype for a little behind the scenes on what went into the designing and building of thoughtbot.com which we did a screen review of earlier this month. Some of the connection...
by Gene Crawford | Dec 15, 2009 | News
Earlier this year, June 27th (and we’re doing it again in 2010!) we had the honor of being part of pulling together a great conference, ConvergeSC. There were many presentations that day, you should try to check them all out. There were three presentations that...
by Gene Crawford | Sep 28, 2009 | News
In this podcast/interview Gene sits down via Skype with Jonathan LeBlanc of the Yahoo Developer Network to get an update on what they have going on. Show notes: Here’s some useful links from the interview: Yahoo Developer Network: http://developer.yahoo.com Open...
by Gene Crawford | Aug 20, 2009 | News
UMS contributor Jason Johnson recently sat down with Jonathan LeBlanc (@jcleblanc) from the Yahoo Developer Network to discuss Yahoo’s YQL and gives some details on how to use it in your own applications. The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language...
by jonathan | Aug 19, 2009 | News
As browsers like Safari and Firefox have started supporting the text-shadow property, I’ve found myself using it more and more to add subtle dimension to my text. The best way to do that is making your text look inset. There are only two techniques; and while...
by Jay Barry | Aug 17, 2009 | Gallery, News
As a designer, I hope that if newspapers can be saved, that design will play a prominent role. Currently, many newspaper sites are dense, cluttered and so hard to read that it’s a wonder anybody goes to them (not to mention the cesspool that is the comments section of...