• September 8th, 2008
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  • Web Design

I’ve been playing around with branding for my site and my online persona for a long time. Seems that everything I came up with on my own wasn’t up to snuff. Eventually I got a good idea (it took years) that would be loud, recognizable, and sent the proper message.

Luckily I have an awesome sister who works in design and is good with Illustrator – which I am definitely not. Thanks to my sister Ryanne, I was able to go from a concept:

To the final design:

She finally helped me get it right. All that’s left is to finally get my blog design in order. It’s due for a refresh. Let me know what you think.

• July 28th, 2008
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  • Web Development
  • jQuery

On August 7th I’ll be speaking at the Betahouse with John Resig about the jQuery Javascript Framework. My friend and colleague Patrick Haney put this talk together for Refresh Boston.

Check out the Upcoming Event. Sign up sooner than later, as of this writing there were only about 20 slots left!

I’ll be talking about how I’ve used jQuery in some of my development projects and some tricks and best practices I’ve picked up along the way. I’ll also be talking about degradation, progressive enhancement and (time permitting) discuss how jQuery’s Plugin architecture lets small teams do a lot with little.

Update

The talk was a great success and I had a great time. I’ve posted my slides: jQuery Best Practices. Much thanks goes to the Betahouse for hosting the Refresh Boston event.

As well as the accompanying demos on Progressive Enhancement:

• jQuery Rating
• Toggle-able Forms