http://team.bkwld.com Team BKWLD Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:20:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On a current project we wanted to restrict a vendor's access to our SVN to a specific directory. We host our SVN repository on Dreamhost because they make it easy to administer and give you an F ton of space. Their SVN user creation system doesn't let you ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/10/01/restricted-svn-users-on-dreamhost/ I'm really liking the genius feature and it's pretty dead on. But check out what it came up with for Cassius 1999: Ghostland Cetera, then 2 Peter Ceteras, Mr. Mister, then Phoenix .... huh ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/09/17/genius-playlists/ I'm somewhat of an armchair physicist. I don't play the game myself, but I read the easier books, and attend the more general public friendly lectures. Today is what one might consider the beginning of the play-offs for physicists (I can't believe I just used a sports analogy). Just hours ago, ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/09/10/these-pipes-are-clean/ I'll admit that growing up I was like most 13 year old girls. I was boy band obsessed and I had my bedroom walls, cd collections, and band paraphernalia to prove it. Honestly though, I thought my fanatical boy band obsessing tendencies had dissipated with age ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/09/08/best-night-of-my-life/ Great article on styling file upload fields. Still, seems better to avoid if you can. Can't believe he's trying support netscape 4! What a champ. http://team.bkwld.com/2008/09/05/styling-file-upload-fields/ Robert, Mai, and I went to this office party last night. Not only is the office amazing, but they have a rotating art gallery. There was a lot fresh artwork in there, but these were my favorites. They are stencils on fencing...Heck yes! http://team.bkwld.com/2008/09/05/shit-im-diggin/ I refreshed my knowledge today about sitelinks, the subnav that appears beneath some site's search results in google. According to google, you can't force them to appear. It's been suggested that having too many links in the nav may work against you. Having your navigation in text ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/09/04/google-sitelinks/ The BKWLD 2008 summer retreat was a off the hook! Dan and Lil G, we missed you dearly! Click on the photo below to see the good times in action.... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/08/26/bkwld-knows-how-to-party/ We use VMWare to test for PC compatibility. I'm guessing this is old news to a lot of people, but it's news to me. Aaron shared Multiple IE Installer with me and it's pretty badasss. No longer need to keep several Windows XP installations running for different ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/08/25/multiple-ies/ Couldn't make it to the party? Watch it live! http://team.bkwld.com/2008/08/22/office-party-stream/ I stumbled across this today and thought it was pretty fresh...that's all I have to report! http://team.bkwld.com/2008/08/04/a-good-office-slogan/ Via Kottke I just skimmed an interesting article about the sort of test subjects that 3D artists use when creating their work (see the article here if you're interested: http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/07/28/img-mgmt-20-archetypes/). It made me think about the sort of FPO (which stands for "for placement only") images and text that Buk uses ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/30/fpo/ Hey internet folks who read our little blog (thanks btw). I'm sort of old school I guess when it comes to checking blog updates on my favorite sites, I don't use RSS. Rather, I use "Open in Tabs" on a folder called "Fun Stuff" in Safari's Favorites toolbar. How ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/24/lots-o-love-coming-soon/ Sometimes I have too many things going on on my computer and need a fresh start. I don't want to go through every single Photoshop file, Safari tab, iChat conversation, text file, etc. to review changes and individually quit everything. I just want everything to go away. ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/07/01/kill-start/ A few weeks ago, Jason Fried of 37signals caused a mild stink by blogging about why his company doesn't comp their designs in Photoshop: ...we’ve found that going straight into HTML/CSS affords us the best iterative and creative experience. HTML/CSS is real in a way Photoshop will never be. Be sure to ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/06/23/why-we-scrutinize-every-detail-in-photoshop-before-going-to-build/ Over a few months ago, I attended the Kanye West: Glow in the Dark Tour. It was his second stop of the tour, right after Seattle, and I must say, I was truly impressed. It's hard to describe the hype surrounding this show, but if anybody follows Kanye even a ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/06/16/kanye-pretty-much-rules-the-world/ Lets say, you are making a site, were everything is AJAX, and you rely on event handlers to know when people double click on this element, drag the image across the site, etc. Normally you would start listening to things once the DOM fires (when the page loads), but problem ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/06/15/how-to-refresh-listeners-in-prototype/ I was wrapping up on a project, and the time came where the color on the lists (1, 2, 3) needed to be different colors than the actual <li> inside needed to be. The only solution is to wrap any content inside the <li> with some sort of tag to ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/06/13/styling-list-items-seperately/ Max and I were having trouble getting our flex project synced up with flex. It kept throwing errors, like: Error: Error while performing action: Can't copy '/Volumes/Files/Project/Assets/Wireframe/bin-debug/.svn/text-base/index.template.html.svn-base' to '/Volumes/Files/Project/Assets/Wireframe/bin-debug/.svn/tmp/index.template.html.tmp.tmp': No such file or directory Finally we decided we need to just ignore the bin folders. That stuff gets autogenerated all ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/06/05/flex-and-svn/ First thing I do is have my mail forward from gmail to an imap account on our dreamhost dev server. This is because I don't like how gmail handles flagging. But essentially, I setup Mail.app to check my mail via imap. I leave my Inbox in threaded ... http://team.bkwld.com/2008/06/01/how-robert-does-email/