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Events Sold Out and Coming Up

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Just before noon (Eastern U.S. time) today, An Event Apart Minneapolis sold its last available seat. That's three events so far in 2010 and three sell-outs.

Fixing Font Display in Thunderbird 3.1

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If you upgraded Thunderbird and discovered that the fonts used to display messages suddenly changed, and worse still, you were unable to get all messages to obey your font display settings, then this post is most likely for you.

In Defense of Vendor Prefixes

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In a fairly quick A List Apart article, I make the case that vendor prefixes are not only good, they have the potential to be great and to deliver greater interoperability and advancement of CSS.

Text, Speech, Video

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All of a sudden, people have been asking me to yak about myself and stuff that I know (or at least think I know).

App Shopping

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While I agree with Neven Mrgan's Walled Gardens, I feel like the whole imagery of walled gardens is a bit of a metaphorical stretch—not because it's inaccurate, but because it's fundamentally unnecessary. We don't need metaphors here.

The Web Stack

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Following on my "HTML5 vs. Flash" talk of a couple of weeks ago, I'm hoping to do a bit of blogging about HTML5, Flash, mobile apps, and more. But first I need to get some terminology straight.

Web 2.0 Talk: HTML5 vs. Flash

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Earlier this week I presented a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo titled "HTML5 vs. Flash: Webpocalypse Now?" which seemed to be pretty well received.

Seeking Hosting Advice

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A friend and I have decided to build a web service/site/whatever the kids are calling them these days. A thing on the web to help you out from time to time. As a result, we're looking for a web host with great service, reliability, and scalability, and I was curious about your experiences.

Seattle Memories

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It's been a week since I got back from An Event Apart Seattle 2010, and I'm still aglow about it.

Turning Web Video On Its Head

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Here's some fun. (For a sufficiently nerdy definition of "fun".)

Better PDF File Size Reduction in OS X

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Being a brief recounting of the successful quest for reduced-size PDFs that don't look awful.

MIXmasters

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The winners of Microsoft's MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge (for which I was happy to serve as one of the judges) have been announced, and the Grand Prize has been awarded to...

Inspector Scrutiny

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It's been said that web inspectors—Firebug, Dragonfly, and so forth—are not always entirely accurate. The real truth is that web inspectors repeat to us the lies they are told, which are the same lies we can be told to our faces.

Fixed Monospace Sizing

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Monospace text sizing is, from time to time, completely unintuitive and can be quite maddening if you don't look at it in exactly the right way. Fortunately, there is a pretty simple workaround, and it's one you might want to consider using even if you weren't aware that a problem existed.

Rounding Off

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In the course of digging into the guts of a much more complicated problem, I stumbled into an interesting philosophical question posed by web inspection tools.