Wow! This is unbelievable. Check out the new preview of Google Maps – Street View. Here is a picture of the old Koko Interactive offices. This is where Katie and I lived when we first met. It has El Camino Real. I can’t believe they did this. I believe that within 10 years, we will…
I skipped Memorial day festivities this weekend to focus on writing the book and preparing the presentation for AjaxExperience 2007. I was pretty productive, but felt I could have been more so. It was hard to maintain focus. There was always the waiting distraction of food, break or sidetrack. I felt like SpongeBob Squarepants when…
I am working now on my Ajax Experience 2007 presentation. Title: jQuery for Designers. You can see my bio and presentation abstract on their site: http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/west/html/speakers.html#GLipka The presentationis moving along, although I definetely feel nervous. I haven’t spoken to an audience in a long, long time. I feel passion for the subject, but it’s been…
Information provided by Betanews.com. I read the top ten new features of Windows Server 2008. To sum them up: runs a little faster crashes a little less lots of enterprise benefits nice things for people who hate the mouse (a.k.a Linux people). The runs a little faster ad crashes a little less sounds fine. The…
I have been working on some forms for Marketo. Mostly shopping cart stuff to get signed up. It’s been a while since I really dove into jQuery to do some deep interaction design. Take a look at my prototype. [UPDATED to Joerns Link] It uses the Masked Input Plugin. I like this plugin alot and…
The kids sang to me this morning: Happy Birthday to you. You live in a zoo. You smell like a monkey, and you look like one too. Good boys. Today is a beautiful day. Predictions for Glen’s 35th year: Blake wins American Idol. Jets win Superbowl Glen wins Pulitzer for best non-fiction book.
Some debugging complaints: Safari sucks. There is no Firebug or IE Developer for Safari. There is this thing called Webkit, but I can’t figure out how it works. What the hell Apple? Why do you have to be difficult? No one wants Safari. Safari has nothing special over other browsers. It’s a pain in the…
Marketo.com (The comapny I work for as UX Architect) is launching their flagship product and public site this week. Uses a bunch of jQuery, Tabs Plugin, Validation Plugin and Scrolling Promo Effect. Design was by (upon request). HTML Production was done by NetKitchen and myself. Overall, I think it’s a solid looking site. One thing I…
Exciting news: The book publisher has green lit my book. I am starting to write it now. It is about jQuery and how it empowers designers. I will give a better summary after I work on it for a little while. I get an advance and everything. The book will be made of physical paper…
I just finished moving my host from Powweb. It went pretty smoothly, well, for the part that I did. I still need to move all my other stuff. I chose LunarPages.com. Speed, my number 1 concern looks solid. FTP is very fast. Much faster than Powweb. Support took a while to pick up the phone…
I have been using Powweb.com for a couple years now, I think. I signed up for a 12 month program last July. Since then, the ownership of Powweb has changed. Since the switchover, I have seen degrading performance. FTP is slow, sometimes painfully slow. This website is sometimes slow and once in a while won’t…
Google has opened the “beta” of thier new Analytics interface. It looks nice visually. Alot of UI improvements. They use fmore flash now. Most of the charts are bigger, which is good. But I still think it lacks some “follow-through”. My main complaint stems from a simple action that I keep trying to take that…
In tennis, there is a terrible disease called, “Your inner dialogue.” I have this in spades. I just recently got my raquet restrung with a different string. The pro said, the softer string will break sooner, and the medium string will have less touch. So when I played, I literally couldn’t keep the ball in the court. …
So much to do. So little time. I find lists to help me organize my thinking. I had a dream last night that I was adding the Google Analytics script to http://js.commadot.com. I really should do that. Check out a JPG of the new Google Analytics version coming soon. I like the design and am…