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On Wedding DesignOctober 2 2008

Fancy Cabel

So, exactly four months ago, I totally got married. This has been a completely great thing, and I highly recommend it. You know, when you're ready.

After the wedding, sometimes people would ask me if everything feels different or more great now that we're married. When I would tell people "actually, not really!", I could naturally sense a little bit of romantic disappointment in their faces, like I'm the Harlequin Grinch. But I don't mean "not that different, yawn" — I mean "not that different, because, honestly, it's always been great." [AWWWW.MP3] My overall advice: when you know, you'll know.

Anyway, I don't want bore you with the personal blah blah blah. Instead, I'd like to talk to you about design...

Wedding design! (Guys? Guys? Stay with me here!)

The Brainstorm

I spent a too-long amount of time brainstorming the foundation of our design. First, I knew I wanted to incorporate Nicole's love of visual contrast — she who is so fond of a super-dark gray cloudy sky with a burst of a blue showing through, or a beautiful flower popping up through tired concrete. Second, I knew that the design had to represent both of us, a little piece of each. I know, right? As much as I'd love to make a wedding invitation with photos of say, photos of the latest flavors of Sun Chips ("You're invite

Sonseed: The Full AlbumSeptember 16 2008

If you love the internet like I do, you've probably come across this amazing YouTube video, yeah?

Delicious Coda CookiesSeptember 1 2008

Last week, as you may have heard, we shipped Coda 1.5, a majorminor™ update to our white-hot text editor that also happens to include a full visual css editor, a Terminal, web preview with DOM inspection, built-in reference books, handy clips for frequently used text, collaboration, and now Subversion and multi-file search/replace. Phew.

As the famous Dutch expression goes, this release was like a drunken chef's spekdikken — it took a bit of extra time to cook, but boy was it worth it! As the chef drunkenly added too much delicious metworst. Which in this case represents new features.

The 1.5 goals were simple:

1. Do some things that probably should have been in 1.0 (like Find Across Files).
2. Add some things people wouldn't expect from a 1.5 (like Subversion).
3. Make it free, like a big giant virtual hug to those who supported Coda, the new kid on the editing block, from day one.

With any luck, you're as excited about it as we are, and we hope it makes your websites more awesome.

Design

Two short UI stories I'll mention. First, "Find Across Files" was an interesting interface challenge. My initial impulse was to try to wedge a complete and separate files-only "Find / Replace" interface into the file browser itself — after all, you're

Quick Mobile Me TipJuly 16 2008

Has your dream Mobile Me username long since been taken by someone else? Are you, like me, ridiculously bothered by the crapsthetics of a less-than-ideal username sitting on your desktop? I bring (possible) good news!

Apple has traditionally kept .Mac usernames on hold, even if an account was inactive. In other words, if a user stopped paying for .Mac, their username would still be considered "in use".

On Friday, with Mobile Me, Apple has officially reset all of these unused accounts.

That means a potentially large pool of previously taken — but idle — usernames is now available! Thanks to this, I managed to finally snag "cabel" (someone had it!?). Les here in the office got, yes, "les".

So, assuming you care, head on over to the Mobile Me signup page — if you make it to page two without an error, you win!

(Was two fewer characters on my desktop icon work an additional $99? Yes. It was. Leave me alone.)

Note: these newly-available names cannot be used as mail aliases. I originally tried setting up a mail alias for "cabel", but I was told it was in use. When I set up the account from scratch, it worked.

Yay! Fireworks!July 4 2008

Howdy, folks who somehow still read my blog!

It's been a while! Let me tell you: a whole lot has happened since we last spoke, and I hope to catch you up with all of it.

But first, it's the 4th of July. And you know what that means, right? Fireworks.

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Some of Them Seem to Have... "Additional Meanings"