http://localhost80.com/blog Resources for Web Developers & Designers Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:21:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Trying to add all those social bookmarking & social news icons to your WordPress blog posts? I highly recommend the Sociable WordPress plugin. It's easy to setup and it works great. You can choose the sites that will display icons, and also customize other options. http://localhost80.com/blog/2008/02/05/sociable/ I didn't write this review of "Character Design For Mobile Devices", but something interesting happened in the Slashdot comments. The author wrote in to agree that the book was not very good: I wrote this book, and I have to agree with most parts of this review. There's a good ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2007/03/05/negative-book-review-authoragrees/ My review of Jason Beaird's The Principles of Beautiful Web Design has been posted on Slashdot: Fellow programmers, beware! Graphic designers have been invading our territory. A flood of books have been released aimed at artists who want to learn web development skills. Oh, it starts innocently enough, usually with CSS ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2007/03/05/the-principles-of-beautiful-web-design/ I noticed a new type of ad appearing in place of my AdSense text links today. It appears to be a search box where users can query for ads: Of course, being my own site, I'm paranoid about interacting with the ad in any fashion for fear of ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2007/02/06/adsense-a-new-ad-type/ My review of Brian Contos' Enemy At The Water Cooler has been published on Slashdot: On most networks diagrams I've seen, the internet looks like a cloud. Sometimes it's a fluffy white cloud. Other times it's a dark ominous cloud. Regardless of the artistic style, the depiction usually conveys the mystery ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2007/02/05/enemy-at-the-water-cooler/ My review of Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards has been published on Slashdot: If you've browsed the web design section of any bookstore lately, you've seen him staring at you. The blue hat. The mustache. The blinding neon background. He's Jeffrey Zeldman, publisher of the influential web development magazine, 'A ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2006/12/04/designing-with-web-standards/ My review of O'Reilly's Google Advertising Tools has been published on Slashdot: Google depends on new content constantly being added to the web. No Google initiative has done a better job at encouraging new content than the AdSense/AdWords programs. Google Advertising Tools by Harold Davis is a book that teaches you ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2006/11/01/google-advertising-tools/ My review of Why Software Sucks has been published on Slashdot: "Why Software Sucks professes to be a book for computer users, not programmers. Author David Platt wants to be the informant, pulling back the curtain on software development so mere mortals can get a glimpse inside the sausage factory. Platt ... http://localhost80.com/blog/2006/10/04/book-review-why-software-sucks/