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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing around with Django.  Because of that, I’ve been looking at a few different books on the subject.  I first started out with the Django Book, which took me a few days to read.  I can’t say I absorbed it all, but I got the general idea.  Then [...]

I have no time for anything!
This is how I usually feel. There are so many things in the world that I want to do/know about, and yet they all take time to do/learn. I don’t have any big to-dos that eat large chunks of my time either… I work, I have my orchestra, [...]

I’ve always been a fan of the <label> element. It’s an incredibly simple way to make a form more accessible. It does two things:

It explicitly associates text with a form element, so a screenreader doesn’t have to guess what text goes with what form element.
For checkboxes/radio buttons, it gives the user a larger [...]

So I guess it’s simply the time of year. Many big releases today… software, APIs, and more!
First, the biggest. IE8 has been released in initial beta. The release was also included a general overview of IE8’s new features and fixes. It’s actually quite a lot of information to absorb all at [...]

The first time I played Yahtzee was… only about a month ago. I won 3 of my first 4 games. It was a fun game. I wonder how that game would be if I played against… oh, let’s say… Microsoft. Probably… not so much.
Jeremy Keith, my favorite famous-web-developer-that-I-watch-from-afar-via-his-blog (sorry, didn’t have a [...]

When you do a search, and you click on a deep page.  The website makes you login, which you do begrudgingly. Where do they take you? To your home page.  Do they even offer to send you to the page you were looking for? Almost never.
Come on, guys & girls.  That’s just too easy…