Barcamp Bangalore 8 was announced sometime recently. So I headed to the Barcamp Bangalore site to check out the details and was shocked. The site’s homepage has been changed to something so tacky, and my first reaction was, wtf, it’s so fugly. Ugh.. C’mon guys, do something better than that.. Anyway, Barcamp Bangalore has been [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web Design'
Book Review: Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
November 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Feeling: sleepyThe phrase “JavaScriptmaster” and Douglas Crockford are considered synonymous in the web development world. When I heard that Crockford was writing a book on JavaScript, especially a guide to the better features of one of the most maligned (and perhaps abused) but popular languages in the current web development industry, I was sure I wanted [...]
Tags: book reviews · Books · Computer programming · Douglas Crockford · javascript · JavaScript: The Good Parts · JSON · Programming · Programming language · Review · web development
WTH
August 20th, 2007 2 Comments
Feeling: pissed off Listening to: Audioslave – Be YourselfSomething is wrong with the blog.. The CSS and various javascript files are not being served by the server even though they appear to be present in the themes folder. And since there is no SSH or ftp access to my server, I cannot even check until I return home.. [...]
Tags: blog · css · javascript · living-life · rambler
GPL is too restrictive
June 3rd, 2007 3 Comments
Feeling: discontent Listening to: Bob Dylan – Like a rolling stoneI want to base a theme on Sandbox but unfortunately it is based on GPL which I think is too restrictive. I would rather have it in LGPL/MIT/AFL (Even MPL) instead which are more open and non-restrictive. Sigh.. I’ll have to look for another theme though I doubt [...]
Tags: afl · bsd · dual-licensing · lgpl · licensing · mpl · plaintxt · Rambler · sandbox · WP
New Year – New look
February 2nd, 2007 15 Comments
I try to update the look of my blog fairly regularly (atleast more than my posting ). So with the new year, I decided that I needed a new theme, a new look for my blog AND a new name (the first change in my 4 years of blogging). I’ve always thought that Red contrasts [...]
Tags: artwork · beautiful · blog · dawn · hemingway · milo · theme