If you’re testing new code, use your browser’s “private” setting to get a fresh, disposable canvas for your code. Your new session will load without cookies, cache, history or saved form data. Better yet, all data you put into the window will disappear when you’re done. It’s a perfect way to find out if your [...]
It seems like every single intersection in Boston has a name. Combine a few of these high-profile intersections together and you have one of Boston’s bazillion awesome neighborhood squares. Luckily, Andy Woodruff has combined these all into an awesome graphic, Boston Squared: I would love to have this framed and on my wall, especially now [...]
Justin Kan of Justin.tv in one of Inc.’s (great) “The Way I Work” articles: I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we’re doing product design. If you have eight people in the design meeting, it doesn’t work. Everybody has an opinion. Everyone wants to weigh in on what the font should look like. [...]
.bashrc is a ridiculously efficient time-saver if you do a lot of work in a terminal shell. I use it to create shortcuts (or “aliases”) for commonly-used commands, like restarting my Django server or including the path to a management script. In one case it turns /home/jeff/workspace/django-project-name/libraries/manage.py django-start 8084 into djs One more practical use [...]
A great list of UI, UX, IA and design conferences all over the world. I’m sure it’s not 100% complete, but the list is massive. They’ve even included other related areas like Flash design and javascript-specific conferences. I only wish the bigger ones were tagged with specific cities instead of the annoying “Location: Multiple cities [...]
For these tutorials, we’re going to be using a pretty standard HTML document with links, images, lists, paragraphs and divs. Download it here, unzip and open it up in your favorite text editor. You’ll want to be sure you install the Firebug extension for Firefox. Firebug is an extremely powerful plugin that lets you see, [...]