| A Career Change |
| November 4, 2008 at 9:51AM by Rick Smith |
Maybe Its gone unnoticed, but I intentionally haven't blogged these past few months.
In late July I accepted a position in the local paid fire department where I spent six weeks learning basics and the firefighter routine, and then another six weeks at IFSI Academy; a major shift from programming and design... sorta... more on that in a bit. Anyone who knew me could've easily guessed my lack of knowledge in firefighting and after building a firm foundation over the past few months, I'm looking forward to growing into a long career of firefighting. Yes, the career change was a large pay cut, but the change of careers most de.... |
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| So Dell Ripped Off My Design...? |
| July 13, 2008 at 1:18AM by Rick Smith |
About once a month I check for updates on all my systems, so I thought I'd hop over to the Dell site today to see if there were any updates for my m1330.
I've had my problems with Dell in the past (in fact I just had the motherboard replaced... got bit by the nVidia overheating problem), but I was stunned to see what I believe to be a pretty close interpretation of my new company's website design (see below). Having had my work stolen in the past from other designers, those who know me know I've become extremely private with my work; I had only showed the work in pr.... |
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| ColdFusion and CSS3 |
| June 20, 2008 at 8:11AM by Rick Smith |
I spent some time doing CSS3 development on Safari a few weeks ago just for fun which got me pretty excited to start using it. And with the release of Firefox 3 this past week, the ants in my pants are restless. I want to start developing using CSS3 in the applications I’m coding now, however it’ll probably be a year or so before browsers that support CSS3 have been widely adopted so I can’t just outright use CSS3 or the website will look terrible for the majority of web users.
I wasn’t keen to the large UDFs or custom tags currently available that detect older browsers. If there's a smaller examples or better way to do this I couldn't find it.
To allow me to star.... |
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| The BlueDragon Steering Committee: Part II |
| June 10, 2008 at 1:25PM by Rick Smith |
| I've always been quite open about my opinion of BlueDragon. I'm not in the least impressed with BlueDragon's candid attitude towards creating a product geared as an alternative to ColdFusion, but goes by its own agenda with its own tags and behaviors. As an application developer that is [rying to develop applications for everyone the problem with BlueDragon is obvious... suddenly I need to support and develop for two platforms for my client base because both platforms are DIFFERENT (this is assuming you're creating an application that needs to run on any platform). In my eyes, BlueDragon is really an effort to divide the ColdFusi.... |
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