Jun 24, 2011 Posted by Sean

Meet BitCoin

If you haven’t heard of BitCoin yet, you need to. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions. These tasks are managed collectively by the network. - http://bitcoin.org/ Bitcoin has the potential to be a hugely disruption technology – changing business, commerce and politics. Here are some hand-picked articles about... read more

Jun 17, 2011 Posted by Sean

Drupal Club

At my work we brought on board some new interns and I had the chance to work with them as part of their on-boarding. We’re a Drupal shop, so one of the things I did was put together a short presentation on how we think about and use Drupal. It started off as a Zen of Drupal idea, but then I made a Fight Club joke on one of the slides and it was all downhill from there. And, thus, I present Drupal... read more

May 14, 2011 Posted by Sean

The Cost of Accessibility

Recently, my friend Mike Gifford wrote a great article about Accessibility Tips for Management.  In it, he writes: Without having specialized technical knowledge tied to accessibility, do managers have the skills required to assess if their sites are accessible?  In my experience most managers lack the resources to do any accessibility reviews of their sites and so fall back at best reviewing a... read more

May 13, 2011 Posted by Sean

Learning the Vi Editor

Vi/m is a part of the core set of tools used on Unix/Linux systems. It can seem alien and unusable at first, but with some work and patience learning how to use Vi/m will add a powerful tool to your tool box. You can check out the Official Introduction to Vim to get started or take a look at the Vi Lovers Homepage. Below is a list of (mostly) online resource from Quickstarts to Tutorials to Videos and... read more

Mar 21, 2011 Posted by Sean

Web Design Foundations

There was a request on Reddit today asking for some resources on how learn web design skills.  The response was great.  So great that I’m just going to copy it here. I really appreciate how the list starts with typography.  This is very much about visual design and not code or other kinds of crunchy hackery. The information is clearly in the context of web design, for the most part. However there... read more