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RequireJS is a JavaScript loader and module manager. It’s great for loading scripts concurrently and without blocking the page from rendering.

Frontal now supports a simple plugin architecture. Using the .register method it’s possible to mix functionality directly into frontal.

When a design has spent so long in photoshop that every pixel has been polished to perfection. When your design can’t be implemented without resorting to image maps it’s gone too far. When theres no real text on the page its not a web page anymore it’s a JPEG.
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For crying out loud, get it into [...]

I’ve just pushed a new feature and some minor tweaks to the frontal project on github.

While working on the forthcoming redesign of the Beam website, FF DIN was made available for licensing with @font-face in WOFF format. It was also released on Typekit.

DIN is Beam’s corporate font and this news presented me with an opportunity to pursue Typekit as an alternative to font replacement techniques like sIFR and Cufón.

While it would appear that the perfect solution had just dropped into my lap; Typekit is a hosted service and this dependance on an external service concerned me.

For posterity’s sake here are the slides from my talk today on scrappy prototypes. They likely make no sense out of context.

Scrappy Prototypes (PDF)

On and off for the past few months i’ve been playing with an idea for a lightweight JavaScript framework. I hate to use the term ‘framework’ but i can’t think of a better way to describe it. Perhaps this is a terrible approach to JavaScript development but it’s been fun to experiment.

I’m sitting by my gate ready to fly home from Austin after one absolutely fantastic week at SXSWi. Coming out here i wasn’t sure what to expect.

Geek Camp

I’ve been to a whole slew of conferences in the past. But this was an experience like no other. So much so that it’s prompted me to write my first blog post for months (curse you twitter!).

Its International Talk Like a Pirate Day tomorrow (September 19th) so to celebrate here’s a quick bookmarklet I put together.
Built on top of the awesome Talk like a Pirate translation ARRPI.
Drag the following link to your bookmarks and enjoy: TweetARRR!

Today i had the joy of presenting a run down of the exciting new features in HTML5 to the entire team.
Here are the slides in a PDF html5-primer.pdf.

“People cards” is a little side project I’m working on at the moment. Essentially they’re MOO mini cards with the URL’s of your social networking profiles printed on them.
The idea being that you can give them people you meet while you’re out and about, at meetups, conferences etc.
I’m using the Twitter API (using OAuth) [...]