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Fast CSS: How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages (SXSW)

Hello there! I’m at SXSW (South By Southwest) 2012 this weekend, going to the interactive conference. Anyway, I tend to take copious notes when I go to talks. I thought they might be useful to a wider audience, so here you go. You can see other SXSW 2012 posts that I’ve made as well. Presenter: …

7,750 pixels of mailing list thread

Short Run by J.D. Hancock on Flickr (Used under a CC-BY 2.0 license.) The Background Story I come from a background strongly focused on communication; my Human-Computer Interaction masters’ degree was out of RPI’s Language, Literature, and Communication Department and my coursework was built on language, literature, and communication as a foundation to understanding newer …

Announcing Fedora Packages (and Fedora Tagger!)

Screenshot, front page of Fedora Packages The story up ’till now You might remember some earlier posts I’ve made about Fedora package social networking. The background here is that we built a web application called Fedora Community a couple of years ago. With Luya Tshimbalanga’s help, I ran a number of usability tests on this …

Beefy has a beef.

I have seen a vision of the future, and this is what I saw: Why would Beefy be targeting the panda with a laser gun? Why is the panda glowing green? How did this situation come about? What happens next? Your mission! It’s a contest. 🙂 Come up with the best story to go with …