brentashley

Nice style switching at Liorean’s site and sashadesign.

Been working hard on a project lately and I’m just rounding the corner into the home stretch. All features in and unit tested, checked in to CVS. System testing to follow. It’s a nice feeling.

I’ve been truly in the zone on this particular project. Nobody could quite understand the intensity if they haven’t been through it.

It’s like carving. I’ve been told that to carve a bear, you take a block of wood and cut away all the bits that don’t look like a bear. When you’re in the zone, you instinctively know where you’re going, which bits to whittle.

If I stand back and look at its beginnings and where it is now, I find it difficult to comprehend the complexities, but when you’re sculpting in the zone, the shavings just fly.

March 11th, 2002. Javascript errors. Always. Continuously. For weeks and weeks. No sign of abatement.

March 14th, 2002 No Javascript errors. Fixed. Done. Old news.

Coincidence? We may never know.

Dougal is looking for Netscape 4.x Sucks articles.

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Dear FM100.2;

Why can’t I hear your radio station in full hi-fidelity stereo on my monaural transistor radio? It works fine when I use my home stereo system. Why do you design your radio station to only support certain radios? My AM radio in my car doesn’t even get your station. You could at least design it to degrade gracefully.

Signed Joe User

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Memo from Marketing to Tech Staff:

Guys, come on, stop being prima donnas and give our customers what they need. Our stats show us that a full 8% of our audience tries to tune us in on AM radios. I don’t care how, you have to provide them with the SAME experience as other users. Everyone must have exactly the same experience or you’ll ruin our branding initiative.

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v 1.1 Release Notes:

– reduced audio to 16khzmono to unify experience across platforms
– put hooks in to accomodate split AM/FM transmission in future
– scrapped plans for digital station id – not cross-radio compatible.

The TechnoMagician pointed me to cross-browser.com, where Mike Foster has a killer dhtml api happening. Very nice indeed.

What the freakin goddam hell is up with the twats at siliconvalley.com who after *at least* a goddam month STILL haven’t got Dan Gillmor’s pages coming up without this error:

I saw it the FIRST DAY. I opened my debugger and found the problem with the function initMenus() apparently not being defined before it is called.

I could have told them right away, told them EXACTLY what the problem was (as could anybody with just a smidgen of javascript experience), but NOOOOO, I figured I’d cut them some slack and let them get their kinks figured out. Well, it ain’t happenin’.

As Ace Ventura would say: “Loo-Hoo…Ze-Herrs!!!” Tech credibility down the shitter.

Oh yeah, send me a comment, and when I’ve decided to stop sitting on the fence and take a definite side on this issue, I’ll notify you right away.

After enjoying free blog hosting at Manilasites for a year, I’ve decided to bring my blog inhouse. Nothing at all wrong with Manila or Manilasites, I just want to have complete control over the storage and lifetime of my content.

I’m going to leave my Manilasite in place for historical reference (there are quite a few other blogs and google entries pointing to it) and refer people to my new blog here at http://brentashley.blogchat.com.

You’ll notice, though, that I’ve carried my archives forward too.

Francois-Georges Cloutier sent me an email about my JSRS browser rpc library. He pointed me a site he did last year using some similar RPC stuff. Wow. This Parillusion site is some of the keenest DHTML UI I’ve yet to see. IE4+ only, but way, way cool.

Hey! Did I not just say it was way, way cool?!? What the heck are you doing down here reading this paragraph? Fer pity’s sake, click the dang link with all speed, get in there, maximize, minimize, explore, scroll, play about. You’ll thank yourself.