Feb 3, 2007
FYI, both my girlfriend and I have registered to attend the Toronto TransitCamp this Sunday, although we have yet to receive an email saying we made the cut-off. I’m anxious to see if it will live up to the hype. People have been patting themselves on … Read more
Feb 2, 2007
The other day, Vic and I were talking and the subject of the new TTC website came up. As some of you are probably aware, due to recent interest the Commission has decided to reopen the RFP for its website. This is good news, as … Read more
Jan 25, 2007
Yesterday I posted a little tirade against the spreadsheet containing the suggestions for the TTC website redesign. Not only did Reading Toronto respond in an emaila comment, they also posted a link to my remix on Read more
Jan 24, 2007
On Monday individuals from the four websites who collected TTC website suggestions from the Toronto community through their weblogs released their findings to the TTC and the general public. They did so in the worst way possible; using a spreadsheet. These are four fairly successful websites, all … Read more
Jan 24, 2007
When I released my new Toronto transit map I promised to release some of the tools I used to create it. Possibly the most useful tool I created is my command-line tile cutter. True, there are other image tilers, such … Read more
Anand Vishwanath advocates fully integrating a user experience design and participants in with the development team in an Agile environment. UX designers need to be accountable to other members of the team and need to work with the same cadence. This could be an argument against using a design team from an agency, particularly if … Read more
We have a popcorn popper which doesn’t pop corn as well as our stove-top technique. It might just ideal as a passable coffee roaster, however.
“SSEs are sent over traditional HTTP. That means they do not require a special protocol or server implementation to get working. WebSockets on the other hand, require full-duplex connections and new Web Socket servers to handle the protocol. In addition, Server-Sent Events have a variety of features that WebSockets lack by design such as automatic … Read more