Category Archives: coding & scripting

Best Buy Looking for Front End Web Development Lead

Best Buy Corporation is seeking a highly skilled “Front End Web Developer” with excellent front end programming skills and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability guided design principles to develop and deploy websites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.
Ideal Candidates Have:

Expert knowledge […]

Best Buy Front-End Developer Position

Best Buy is seeking a skilled front-end Web Developer with excellent communication and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability-guided design principles to develop and deploy web sites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.
Ideal Candidates have:

Expert knowledge of hand-coded HTML (XHTML and DHTML […]

To all the Flashbelt Procrastinators

Today’s the last day to register online for the Flashbelt conference that’s going on at the U’s McNamera Center next week.
If you still can’t decide if you want to go, there might be a few passes available for walk up pricing, but that’s $100 more.
This is going to be the best flash conference that Minneapolis […]

Nobody Posted about CS3 yet?

Adobe officially Announced CS3 today, but I assume some of us have already had our peek at the new features they were rolling out in new versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc. (Sorry Freehand and ImageReady Fans.)
If you managed to miss this somehow:
http://www.adobe.com/creativelicense/
Go ahead and Preorder today, but I don’t think they’ve […]

I need some web hosting advice…

So I’m a Flash Guy, but here’s my current dilemma.
Currently I have no site of of my own. I used to host JakeFreeberg.com off a machine at home, but that’s just a bad solution. It allowed me to play with WordPress and MovableType installs and learn a few things, I really need to put some […]

New Minneapolis Based Advanced Flash/Flex Programmer’s Group Forming

Danny Patterson left this post on the FlashMN mailing list Yesterday:

We’re forming a new group in the twin cities that is focusing on Flash and Flex programming topics. This group is in no way trying to take over the FlashMN group, but should be seen as a compliment to an already great Flash group. The […]

Hangover (Fly-out) Navigation Part II

A while back I commented on Hangover Navigation–my new preferred term for javascript based fly-out navigation. I really hate fly-out navigation 90% of the time. It’s often a pain to use–even for abled bodied folks, very often completely inaccessible, can actually add to user confusion, and rarely offers decent wayfinding devices.
All that said, there are […]

Fixing the fixed width design. Again.

A while ago I talked a bit about A List Apart’s new design and how they chose to go with an incredibly wide fixed-width layout.
A recent discussion on the Webdesign-l list brought this up and the debate ensued as to whether or not it was a good idea. To me, it’s just annoying, so I […]

MNBits: Structure, Scripting, and Standardization

Whew…I’m way behind on my Friday MNBits posts. Well, Summer came, and some major yard work, then we decided to remodel the bathroom, and then the kids started t-ball, and then…oh…I’m rambling. Sorry.
So, on with the MNBits…
script.aculo.us
In addition to getting me thinking about having to now get my own ‘ious’ URL, this site is a […]

Hangover Navigation

I was talking to one of my colleagues today about the frustrations with design by committee. This is nothing new, but now that I work in government, I’ve found it’s a bit easier to fall into that habit.
As happens with these internal conversations, we obviously end up poking a bit of fun at the […]