Monday, August 18, 2008
Yesterday in OS X I saw some weird hover redraw issues with the Dock. When hovering over icons in the dock, some icons would disappear completely and others would be only partially drawn with horizontal strips entirely missing—weird! I logged out and logged back in and now the problem is gone. Not sure what caused it. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Attended An Event Apart San Francisco in the Palace Hotel downtown. Susie L also attended, as we had planned, and I hadn't expected it but so did Jeff M. The 3 of us stuck together throughout the day. Day 1 of the event was mostly excellent. I took lots of notes and will have lots to think about afterwards. Ran into Jayson J who said he was there with Ricki-Ellen B, but after that break ended I couldn't find him again. I stayed for a few minutes of the Adobe presentation (Responsible Web Design) but it seemed like stuff I already knew and was going to be focused on Dreamweaver, so I left. I thought I might have gone to the mediatemple party, but I didn't want to go alone, so I called Patrick to let him know I would just come home. Here's the feedback I later provided for today's speakers at An Event Apart:
- Zeldman: Amazing speaking skills and tho I disagree with him on the greatness of Douglas Bowman's WordPress template as a specific example, I understand what he means. Did not know about NO!SPEC, thx for putting tips 9 & 10 out there!
- Meyer: Saved me a lot of time if I were to evaluate these on my own, I think I will try WYMstyle on my next big project and—as they suggest—customize to make it my own.
- Santa Maria: I got really hungry at 11:13, but that's just me. *loved* the wired examples (print vs web), and i like that he's encouraging us to think about this tho at some point you have to accept that they are different media - they can't be the same. check out fantasticsmag.com for a website that tries to be more like a glossy magazine. it's not as polished as i would like, but you have to admit the giant photos are relatively unique. some of their issues also integrate video in creative ways.
- Wroblewski: Excellent info and great collection of examples—very efficient telling. I don't think the Moonlight 3 example is a very positive one, though—I see the layout shapes more than I see the data. Great job!
- Champ: Great lessons and examples. Naughty words did not bother me, but thanks for the warning anyway.
- Danzico: I don't know jazz very well, so this was hard for me to understand but I did find it fascinating and mind-stretching. A little frustrating that she could not name examples of websites that incorporate improv. Laptop sound was an unfortunate problem.
- Cederholm: Would have been better without the A-Z sham. Worth it most especially for the easy-clearing floats. The rest was part good-to-hear and part "i know i'll never use it". Thx for confirming that I'm doing things right (like relative units and .last).
Muni was awful for the ride home. I'm too tired to provide many details, but in a nutshell I didn't know that Muni can switch the trains without warning—you can't trust that the announcements saying what trains are coming will be correct when they actually arrive. That and poor train spacing (or bad headways) made it challenging to keep the inner peace. I don't usually take a train from downtown to home during rush hour, so I'm not familiar with these patterns as probably many others are. Dinner at home with Patrick: leftover chicken fricassee, corn on the cob, french fries, dinner roll, Smart Balance Light. Worked on The New Yorker paperwork. Stretches. Weight training: superslow dumbbell fly, crunch, superslow front raise. Stretches.