Archive for June, 2004

Umbraco 2.0 is about to be released.

The Con­tent Man­age­ment Plat­form that I have been work­ing on for over three years; umbraco 2.0 WILL be released as a pub­lic beta on Fri­day the 2nd under an open source license (GPL/LGPL). 

I’ve used the first ver­sion on a cou­ple of projects and it really is rather nice! Look­ing for­ward to the new ver­sion; I’ve sent a cou­ple of clients on hol­i­day — when they come back I think they wanna play ;-)

Con­grats to mr. Hartvig.

Isn’t that inter­web just great. You real­ize that since this is 2004 and you pride your­self with being all dig­i­tal and mod­ern, the need to fax an agree­ment con­cern­ing a domain name end up being a chal­lenge. Blog to the res­cue. A sin­gle Google search and this w-a-s-a-b-i comes up. Someone’s been kind enough to pro­vide a brief walk-through on how to get OS X to fax through a bluetooth-enabled cell­phone — three min­utes later, the fax is leav­ing my laptop. 

Which reminded me (again) to post more tips and tricks. This lit­tle blog might not con­tain extremely inno­v­a­tive thoughts on any­thing impor­tant, but if one should end up with suc­ceed­ing in con­nect­ing some hard­ware, build­ing a use­ful script or some­thing like that, one should spend those extra two min­utes writ­ing it up. I cer­tainly enjoy when peo­ple with Google-friendly blog-markup link up handy links to hard­ware or write lit­tle how-tos on how to get those tools and gad­gets to become even more useful.

Good points over at bestkungfu on accessability.

There are mil­lions of Web users who don’t even con­sider them­selves dis­abled: you might know one as “Dad” or “Grandpa,” who can’t quite see as well as they used to, or never quite got the hang of mou­s­ing around. Users like these wouldn’t know an “acces­si­ble” from a cru­cible. They’re going to use your site, and they’re going to get stuck. And they’re going to get angry, espe­cially if you hard-coded the font size below their abil­ity to read it. How, praytell, will that lit­tle dis­abil­ity ghetto you coded save you now?

Bestkungfu on “Seper­ate but equal” design

Var til Blog’N’Rundbold i går. Ret beset var der nok mere mad og øl, end der var sports­be­tonet fysisk aktivitet, men der blev talt lidt om blog­ging i kro­gene — og hyggeligt var det i hvert fald. Jeg lærte flere ting. Bl.a. at hvis man vit­terlig vil have læsere og kom­mentarer og sjov og spas — så skal der mere lir på bloggen. Pat-ter og sådan. Sprog­lige finesser skulle heller ikke være værst.

Så uden yderligere omsvøb: Tok penis-bilder med duskedamernes kam­era. Der er unge piger på samme soveværelse, bru­tal og sær tek­nol­o­gisk under­støt­tet man­dlig sek­su­alitet — og et sjovt norsk ord for cheer­leader. Hvad mere vil I dog have?!

David Trads for­lader den mindst ringe … kan man læse på Poli­tikens netavis. Infor­ma­tions egen side har noget med skæv køns­fordel­ing i fod­bold­ver­de­nen som tophis­to­rie — nyhe­den om Trads’ afgang er ingen steder at finde.

Blot et eksem­pel — det er dårlig stil ikke selv at kunne levere nyheder om sig selv først. Det gælder cor­po­rate kæm­per, poli­tikere og i særde­leshed medievirk­somheder, der burde vide bedre… Husk det nu. This.is.2004.

I’ve been feel­ing bad about the look of my com­pany site (heck, it doesn’t even really qual­ify as a site) for quite some time (you can prob­a­bly guess how long by tak­ing a look). But I want to do it right, not just replac­ing the ‘under con­struc­tion’ picture…you know the drill..

How­ever, now I’m feel­ing even more moti­vated than ever before — I’ve just been offered to hand in design pro­pos­als for a christ­mas card pack­age run­ning this christ­mas — the guy I know thought I had the design ideas going already.… hmmm.…