The End of it All

I am just at the end of bringing a solid two weeks of total craziness to an end and apologize for not being able to even make one post. Twitter, my personal work, my garage, my laundry, my master schedule and my (now unfortunately) ex-girlfriend all had been ignored for a solid two weeks. And for all of that, I am very sorry, but a man cannot live on 30 hours sleep in a week and be expected to function at anything close to full capacity.

The Horizon

This week we’re wrapping up three projects, one of which came and went in 9 days, packing up, and getting ready to have to move the office from it’s home for the past few years into a new space that will be more conducive to the direction in which we’re headed.

Beyond the horizon

There are some exciting things afoot, most of which I can’t talk about here, but if you’re close to me, you know why I do what I do. There’s one developer who’s been holding up the release of the new Ultra16 site, he’ll remain nameless, but as soon as he gets his act together, our great portfolio, and some other cool jazz will be out there for the masses, and the new clients to ogle.

• Taking a cab home, today was a few hours longer than I planned. #
• I love it when a cabbie doesn’t listen to directions to try to make a buck #
• Just spent 45 minutes stuck on the subway. #
• Time for some pizza from “Two Boots” #

You may notice that I have a new little banner running on the top right corner of this site… Some folks got a lovely idea recently that for one day, all supporting sites will run without and client-side scripting.

As time has gone by, more and more sites have come to depend on javascript for their basic functionality to work and in my opinion it’s a shame. I admit that even my portfolio (which was thrown together in about 2 days) was dependent for a little bit, but that quickly changed as soon as I started actually using my brain about a year and 1/2 ago.

Why this is such a good idea

It’s a responsible thing to do. If a developer cares about their users or their client’s users, they will build apps using “traditional” methods (GET POST and the like) and then add any client-side scripting to compliment the already functional app or website. Progressive enhancement in my opinion should be a standard, at least unofficially by now.

I hope developers everywhere step-up, and do what they need to to “make it right” and participate on July 7th 2007

http://www.scriptlessday.com/ They’re on twitter as well.

• at home, reinventing my chillax #
• Making a late dinner #
• going to bed, oy i’m tired. #
• Im going to hit the sack #
• proving once and for all that sleeping late *does not rule*… it’s just called oversleeping. #
• Coffee and bagel before I take the train in, #
• Placing nose to grindstone #
• finishing the girlfriend’s taxes so she doesn’t kill me. #
• Buying what I hope will be a delicious sandwich #
• Just found out we didn’t win a particularly large pitch, and i’m relieved. #
• doing multiplatform Q/A of some client work that’s due tomorrow #
• demoing an app to a client #
• Work just keeps rolling in, so i’m going to the deli. #

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