December 12, 2012

Kicking the tires

Kicking the tires of a new system. More to come.

December 7, 2012

Giving Everyone at College a Domain of One’s Own

Podcast by Chronicle of Higher Education. Interesting idea, no idea how we could possibly support it. But owning and controlling your digital identity and personal data is a very important emerging issue we should be teaching students about.

December 5, 2012

Agility Nerd: Seventy Two Backyard Courses!

I tried to put a wide range of handling challenges in these sequences. So you should have plenty of chances to work on: Jump Wraps, Front Crosses, Rear Crosses, Blind Crosses, 180s, 270s, Back Sides, Threadles, and Serpentines.

Perfect timing– need to dive into these with Samba

December 4, 2012

Responsive Navigation Patterns

Brad Frost on the most common ways to handle navigation menus responsively.

December 4, 2012

Five responsive web design pitfalls to avoid

Brad Frost on .net Magazine

November 30, 2012

Michael Johnson: All Systems Are Go!(ing to Come Apart)

The most frequent mistake I’ve seen (and the one I’ve made most frequently) is client sign-off of a website interpreted by its authors as commitment to design integrity, when the reality is the purchaser’s transfixed by beautifully-balanced, pre-assembled jigsaw puzzles restricted by fixed arrangements. Eventually somebody’s going to take it off the shelf and shake it.

What will it be then?