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	<description>You're reading Jeff Watkins' thoughts about Web application design and development with a little bit of technology ranting thrown in for free.</description>
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		<title>Flash Is A Mess</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2010/03/flash-is-a-mess</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Macintosh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Lynch of Adobe made some interesting claims recently while trying to defend flash and explain why it should be included on the iPad and iPhone:


  Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don&#8217;t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Javascript</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2009/10/making-javascript</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every development environment has its build tools: C and C++ have Make, Java has Ant, and Ruby has Rake. There are probably lots of other tools out there which I&#8217;ve never heard of, which is no slight to those tools, I just don&#8217;t get out much. But there aren&#8217;t many good tools for building Javascript [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Web Is An Ugly Place</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2007/08/the-web-is-an-ugly-place</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found a link on Ajaxian today about a date picker widget that uses Prototype and Scriptaculous. But why does it have to look so ugly?



I recently finished writing a date picker for work. I&#8217;m not entirely pleased with it, but it seems to work OK.



Of course, my standards are a bit higher when it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primary &amp; Secondary Actions</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2007/08/primary-secondary-actions</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Luke Wroblewski recently posted an interesting article on the design of Web Forms: Primary &#38; Secondary Actions in Web Forms. He analyses the eye tracking results from study participants as they filled out several forms with different button placements.

I find it interesting that the fastest completion results favour the option which could cause the greatest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Difficulty Supporting Drag &amp; Drop and Cut &amp; Paste</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/difficulty-supporting-drag-drop-and-cut-paste</link>
		<comments>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/07/difficulty-supporting-drag-drop-and-cut-paste#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2006/07/difficulty-supporting-drag-drop-and-cut-paste</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the official goals for my DOM Bindings framework (think Cocoa Bindings for the DOM), is to make Web applications as close to first class citizens as possible on your desktop. That means supporting both drag &#38; drop and cut &#38; paste.



Now, ideally these would be inter-application (as they are meant to be), however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Is This Important?</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/05/why-is-this-important</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 12:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve decided not to continue purchasing NetNewsWire in the future, I still read Brent Simmon&#8217;s blog inessential.com. His latest post about how NetNewsWire reads feeds contains the following statement:


  Itâ€™s important, in this increasingly cross-platform and multiple-gadget world, to be able to get your feeds anywhere, anytime.


Can anyone explain why this is true? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Isn&#8217;t Pretty</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/04/php-isnt-pretty</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on a PHP-based Web site for my employer &#8212; tying together WordPress and Vanilla under an SSO umbrella &#8212; and I&#8217;m impressed by how awful the PHP language is.

In the past I&#8217;ve resisted learning PHP because it always struck me as a toy Web scripting language. And as I&#8217;ve delved into it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Still Doesn&#8217;t Get Standards</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/01/microsoft-still-doesnt-get-standards</link>
		<comments>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2006/01/microsoft-still-doesnt-get-standards#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Javascript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my job I use the Microsoft JavaScript language reference all day long (the product I work on embeds the Microsoft Script engine). Up until today, I&#8217;ve been able to access this site via FireFox, and although it didn&#8217;t work as good as the MSIE version, it worked OK.

Today, when I went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tagging is Tough</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2005/12/tagging-is-tough</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TurboGears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerd.newburyportion.com/2005/12/tagging-is-tough</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk about tagging and folksonomies (I hate that word), I encountered a discussion on Philipp Keller&#8217;s site about the database schemas behind tagging systems.

I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about these sorts of things, because I&#8217;m still hoping to build a content management system using TurboGears. Understanding how the database is implemented is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Porting to WordPress</title>
		<link>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2005/11/porting-to-wordpress</link>
		<comments>http://nerd.metrocat.org/2005/11/porting-to-wordpress#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Watkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve decided to switch to WordPress (yes, Josh, I know you&#8217;re so happy), I need to figure out how I&#8217;m going to organise the site.

Currently, newburyportion is set up as three separate weblogs using Movable Type: the journal, nerd, and our photography site. This was made necessary by limitations of Movable Type, but [...]]]></description>
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