December 07, 2006
In the course of selling myself to a prospective client over the phone today, I was cut short when the client said, “You had me at Portfolio.” I thought that was pretty funny. Thanks for the call, and thank you for ultimately trusting your project to me.
July 31, 2006
I took a canoe trip this weekend, and forgot to take my cell phone out of my pocket before heading out on the river. We didn’t plan on tipping over, but who does expect to do that? At any rate, the dunk in the river turned my cell phone into a small aquarium. I’m heading out to get a new phone today. If you’re trying to reach me, I aplogize for the inconvenience. I should have a new phone and be up and running again later this afternoon. UPDATE: I got a new phone. It’s the RAZR V3m which has …More »
July 27, 2006
While working on a project today, I was browsing through source code on a number of sites to see how people smarter than I have done things that I need to do as well. I was looking through some JavaScript and found this: var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = ( navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5.2') != -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1); I know what it is to tear your hair out trying to get something to work in one browser or another. I’ll bet this guy spent a full working day fiddling with that browser before giving up and just writing a little function to let …More »
