Monthly Archives: March 2008

The horrors of transit.511.org

This post is out of date, transit.511.org rebuilt their site, broke my scraper, and made life painful in general If you live in San Francisco, like I do, you often have to suffer at the whims of the SF Muni. Tragically, the very useful transit.511.org trip planner is almost totally useless on a mobile phone [...]

A Version of IE that Doesn’t Suck?

I have been playing with IE8 tonight. And I have to say that I am very impressed with what microsoft has done. They seem to be serious about a standards compliant browser this time (bugs not withstanding, but its beta 1, so they get a pass). They fixed the 2 domain thing, and added some [...]

Who should web developers vote for? Pt 1.

So, there is an election going on. As a public service to my fellow webdevs, I decided to look at the candidates and judge them based on the only metric that matters: the quality of their frontend code.Because tomorrow will (maybe) decide which democrat will be the nominee, I will wait for part 2 and [...]