After running pheedelity in Berlin for a couple of years where I did more organizing and project managing than real geek stuff and now that I’ve mentally settled in here in London I’m determined to do exciting geek stuff again.
Here’s my humble list of what I’d like to do in the not too distant future:
Maybe writing all this down will somehow magically conjure up the time to actually do all this while having a job, start doing geocaching again, finishing Star Wars Force Unleashed and Resistance 2 and watching seasons 4 and 5 of The Wire. Stay tuned…
My internet provider be Broadband has had a redesign of their branding. While you can discuss the aesthetics of their new website what I found interesting about it was the postscript of their email telling me about it:
P.S. We’ve not designed this to work fantastically in IE6 because it’s really old and. well, we’re all about the future. So, if you’re on IE6 please upgrade to IE7 or IE8 or even Firefox. Sorry if you’re stuck with IE6.
Youtube and digg.com dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 was widely discussed throughout the web. This may not spell the end of IE6 but it is still nice to see that other companies are following the example.
The more companies drop support for IE6 the more companies will follow. And eventually websites like the BBC and Sky will see no point in supporting it because the market share is so slim.
Update: magnum has been updated to version 1.1
Inspired by Simon Collison’s talk at the @media this year at eConversions we finally created our own ultimate package.
The Magnum Website Starter Kit is our collection of files we use to quickly kick off frontent development for a new project. It comes with a basic html, css and javascript file, html5 doctype, jQuery and ARIA landmark roles.
It’s not meant to be what people call a CSS framework. You certainly won’t find anything about about grids in magnum. Magnum is supposed to contain what we would normally have to write anyway. Plus a basic structure of best practices everyone agrees upon. I think it is a good way of discussing how things should be done outside of actual projects and then have it in place once you need it.
Magnum is my first commit to github, you can go there, download and play with it and maybe even use it for your own projects. I’d be happy if this can make anyone’s life easier. Let me know what you think.
Donwload Magnum at github
Oh, and it’s called magnum because when I started writing the readme files, everyone was having ice cream. Guess which brand we had..
Nachdem ich jetzt endlich meine Magisterarbeits-Hölle durchwandert und mich mental ein wenig erholt habe, komme ich hoffentlich in nächster Zeit wieder öfter dazu, hier was zu schreiben.
Vor allem weil es mich jetzt doch (wieder) in die schöne Welt der Webworker verschlagen hat: Seit Anfang Juni mache ich ein Praktikum bei Lokku als “German Product Intern” für die vertikale Immobilien-Suchmaschine Nestoria und bin u.a. für das Blog verantwortlich.
Lokku besteht aus einem kleinen Team von hauptsächlich Programmierern, in dem ich die einzige Frau bin – da merkt man mal wieder, ohne DesignerInnen sinkt die Frauenquote in IT Unternehmen erheblich. Ich geniesse es unter Geeks zu sein, das Bedürfnis eine Programmiersprache zu lernen steigt täglich, allerdings sind die Ratschläge welche sich zum Einstieg am Besten eignet auffällig abhängig davon, was der Betreffende selber macht. Von Perl über Java Script und Smalltalk war schon alles dabei.
Jedenfalls hoffe ich eine Menge zu lernen. Und für die unter euch die eine neue Wohnung suchen (ich schaue in eure Richtung, Berliner, ihr ewig Suchenden), ihr wisst ja jetzt wo’s langgeht. Nebenbei haben wir auch noch ein neues Projekt gelauncht, eine Seite auf der man eine Wohnung anhand der Entfernung mit den öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln zum Arbeitsplatz finden kann.
Firefox 3.5 has been released this afternoon and has already passed 1.5 Million downloads. You can follow the realtime download stats over at http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/ At the moment 44 copies get downloaded every second.
Note the refurbished logo Mozilla have had made for this version. I think it works quite well even though it’s not that different from the old one. Here’s the creative brief they published for the new icon
Zac also just let me know that he has updated his Browser Border Add-on to work with FF3.5
