http://www.davebalmer.com Kicking and screaming into the blogsphere Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:36:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well played, Yahoo. Well played. I’ve been holding off on a deep dive of YUI 3, but with Hack Day 2008 and a chance to corner various YUI folks this week, I figured it was a good time to load up with intelligent questions. Right off, I’m very impressed with the configurator. ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/09/11/yui-3-pr1-configurator/ Wow, time has been flying by at my new gig. Hopefully I’m not too late to get in for Hack Day, cause it’s a hell of a lot of fun. I haven’t been rubbing elbows with my Yahoo friends in forever, so hopefully a few familiar faces will be there. ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/09/09/hack-day-commeth/ I was looking some months back at the “Hot” iPhone Web apps, and was amused to find the “iPhone Flashlight” and, later, the various strobe lights and other things which basically set the background color from #000 to #FFF. Not to be outdone, I made the iPhone SOS app one ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/05/31/iphone-sos-a-different-sort-of-code/ I haven’t really played with the “Wii” much since we got it last year, and only recently enabled the built-in wifi, so this sweet news viewer has been lurking in my living room for quite a while. Spin the globe and see news story pages pile up on cities where they ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/05/31/the-wii-news-channel-and-other-out-of-browser-experiences/ I was all prepared to give a dismissive, sarcastic review of this gadget, but the silly thing is good. Not only has everyone in the family used and enjoyed it, but it’ll even support my weight. And that’s no small feat. In case you’ve missed the ads, web promotion and signs ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/05/26/wiifit-is-a-wiihit-even-for-chunky-people/ IE8 is looming on the horizon for release into the wild later this year. It looks promising. According to what I’ve seen so far, it’ll be largely compliant with HTML 5 and the latest and/or greatest CSS specs from W3C. Awesome! And yet… 30-40% of the installed Windows base out there ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/03/24/the-boat-anchor-known-as-ie6/ For the first time in, well… a long time, I’m actually interested in getting a beta version of IE. So far, I’ve spotted what looks like support for HTML 5 CSS transitions (physics-based animation of CSS properties), some document messaging thing which I haven’t played with yet, and client-side storage (SQL ... http://www.davebalmer.com/2008/03/15/html-5-and-ie8/