- Most Recent | Since 2004
- List View
- Archive
- October 26, 2011
Quick and Dirty CSS Templating Engine
October 26, 2011Read more
I recently posted about creating some Baseline Grid CSS for my web typography. The first iteration was hand-coded for a specific font-size and line-height. A reader mentioned that there are CSS templating engines available called LESS and SASS respectively. They both allow you to treat CSS more like a real programming language, with constants and functions and other extensions to make it suck less. SASS works on the server-side, requiring Ruby. LESS, however, runs on the client-side, and is implemented as a Javascript library that executes at runtime. There are some nice features in both packages, but I didn’t really want to require yet another Javascript library in my code or install Ruby. (more…)
- October 24, 2011
Baseline Grids and a Logo for a Tiny School
October 24, 2011Read moreI’ve been taking a break from coding this week to do some design. Two new projects are documented in my design journal: Exploring Baseline Grid Layouts is about the process of making type line up neatly on the Web, and Logo for the Tiny School traces through the development of a quick-and-dirty logo.
- October 24, 2011
Logo for “The Tiny School”
October 24, 2011Read moreFor the past 10 or so years, I’ve had this fantasy of having my own school where a bunch of my peeps could hang out, teach, and learn new things. The idea resurfaced when I was talking with some friends about the difficulty of maintaining a co-working space in a small town. If there was an additional draw—say, very short classes—people might think of co-working as something more than a social visit.
On a different note, I’ve been following Tumbleweed Tiny House Company people for years, and recently I stumbled upon those Little Free Libraries, which look like birdhouses filled with books. I like well-built small spaces that are designed for quirky lifestyles.
The desire for the small and quirky have combined with the school idea to create The Tiny School of Art and Science. I’m probably more excited about making tiny diplomas than anything else, but I decided to write about the concept this weekend to run by my friends. I then proceeded to get sidetracked doing logo design to accompany the collateral.
- October 23, 2011
Wrist Notes
October 23, 2011Read moreVia BoingBoing: a Post-It® note pad cut in the shape of a watch, so you can wrap a to-do item around your wrist. A much cooler version of my arm-mounted gauntlet of productivity!
- October 23, 2011
List.js List Manager in Javascript
October 23, 2011Read moreMy cousin posted a link to list.js, a 7K (minified) Javascript list control. It works with Javascript/HTML and implements a way of dynamically managing a list data structure and displaying it through a template engine. It’s a nice compendium of Javascript coding techniques too, easily readable and cross-platform.
In the grand scheme of things, it’s the implementation of a data structure that is designed to support a particular kind of HTML element. What it doesn’t do is implement a UI to manipulate the list. For that, you could look to something in jQuery UI like the Sortable functionality.
