Web Design on Justin Carmony

Video: Look At Your Data - John Rauser - Velocity 2011

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:36:25 +0000

Last year I saw some videos from Velocity 2011 that were really enlightening, and today I wanted to re-watch one of them. Of course, I hadn’t bookmarked them, or remembered which conference they were from. So after some searching and remembering, I found the video. “Look at Your Data” by John Rauser. It is an excellent video and understanding your performance data and how to get more from it. I’ve embedded it below, but I would encourage everyone to checkout all the videos they posted from Velocity 2011, its a bunch of great stuff.

Dark Patterns - Deceiving Your Users

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:25:55 +0000

I remember when I was first getting into making websites in 1999, there was a website that I loved: Web Pages That Suck. It was a website dedicated to showing bad examples of web design. It was kind of funny, and I remember learning a few things not to do. Though it isn’t as relevant today, it amazes me they still find websites that are doing the same terrible things that they were doing back in the 90’s.

How I Became a Web Developer & CTO

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:57:56 +0000

Note: many of the screenshots of websites I had done in the past are from the Internet Archive and many of the images are missing. But it can give an idea on the projects I had worked on. One day I’ll try and track down the original files and update the screenshots.

Today some memories came from when I first started with web development. So before I forget anymore of the details, I thought I would share my unique way I became a web developer. I never went to school to learn Computer Science or Information Systems. I’ve had a total of 2 programming classes, which were my in sophomore and junior years of High School, one of which we lovingly nicknamed Warcraft 101, because we would spend the entire time getting out butts kicked in Warcraft 2 by my classmate Daren (We all got A’s, we had just finished the entire coursework in 2 and a half weeks).

Google Apps Dropping IE 6

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:16:59 +0000

This morning I found this email in my inbox. I use Google Apps to host my email and calendars, which works really slick and is fabulous. Here is the email:

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

Characteristics of Good PHP Code

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:20:02 +0000

At the time I am sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting for a very delayed layover flight to San Diego. Wonderful weather causing all sorts of headaches. So I’ve decided to make the best of my time by writing the introductory article to a series of PHP articles. I’ve had this idea for a while, and now I’m going to finally sit down and write it.

A Different Type of Article

Bad Website Usability - TGI Fridays

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:36:54 +0000

Here is a little usability lesson for everyone: vertical text can be very hard to read, especially when it is rotated. Here is a video taken of TGI Friday’s website. Hopefully this can be a lesson for web developers about how frustrating these kinds of techniques can be for users.

http://content.screencast.com/users/JustinCarmony/folders/Jing/media/8605f50b-0ac2-41aa-b4dd-560fc711a627/bootstrap.swf

HTML Education in Universities

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:24:46 +0000

Why, oh why, are website classes so extremely out of date in universities, colleges, and schools? I just spent the last few hours helping my wife with her Information Systems class. I’ve had to do similar assignments for technology classes, yet the things they are teaching are extremely out of date and a waste of time. Why? After taking these classes, to actually use HTML, I would have to unlearn 80% of what they taught, and re-learn from scratch.

100th Blog Entry - First Year of Real Blogging

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:03:48 +0000

This is my 100th entry into my blog, and 25 days before my first year mark for writing on my blog. It’s been a great experience, and I’m starting to see some real traffic. I’ve found that publishing meaningful content, whether a simple bug fix, or a full blown tutorial, can be very satisfying. Seeing the handful of thankful comments has been great, and even the contentious comments have been fun.

Empowering JavaScript Through jQuery

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:31:27 +0000

Once I discovered jQuery, my life as a web developer changed. There are few libraries, tools, etc. that I can honestly say have completely changed the way I code. In all honesty, jQuery makes the difficult aspects of JavaScript and turns them into a strength. I recommend it over any other JavaScript library I know. It is smaller, leaner, straight forwards, and more powerful than anything out there. Large companies like Google, Microsoft, and Dell use it. Microsoft is now including jQuery in Visual Studio, their powerful IDE for making websites. If anything, I have yet to meet a person who has used jQuery and has gone to anything else.

Adobe Creative Suite 4: I'm Excited!

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:06:05 +0000

All I can say is I’m excited. I was skeptical about Adobe acquiring Macromedia at first, wishing it was the other way around. The only real Adobe product I was using was Photoshop, where was Macromedia has Flash, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. However, I have to say, I’ve been impressed with Adobe’s efforts to improving Macromedia’s products. I was worried they would cannibalize the different programs and just merge a few features into the Adobe products. However, they had done opposite with Creative Suite 3, they kept all the products and basically focused on making integration between all the products better.