Author Archives: Chris Heisel

WordPre.cio.us 1.01 released

It’s a bugfix release — it should now handled UTF-8 characters properly. The issue was in the Magpie layer, and if anyone’s wondering how to handle it in their code, the answer that seemed to work for me was: define(“MAGPIE_INPUT_ENCODING”, … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture

Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture Some very salient points about attempting to model how you think your users will think vs. using technology to capture how they’re actually thinking.

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Layout Grid Bookmarklet

Layout Grid Bookmarklet A very nice bookmarklet implementation by Andy Carr of Koi Vinh’s background image grid for Web design.

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Moron of the week: Republican Mike Daniel

From this Sundays’s AJC editorial page: If you don’t have your photo ID, you should not be able to vote. Voting is a privilege, not a right. — Republican Mike Daniel, who voted at Dunwoody High School in DeKalb County … Continue reading

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Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer

Top 10 things likely to be overheard from a Klingon Programmer My favorite: "Specifications are for the weak and timid!"

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