From Away

Command History - Another Meme

April 16, 2008 at 10:17 AM

I’m not usually one to post memes on this site, but since it’s been six months to the day since I’ve posted anything here I thought this might be a good way to get the ball rolling again.

Rest assured, this site isn’t dead. I’m working on a redesign and a new content management system in my spare time, which is pretty limited these days.

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Follow Up: A List Apart Web Design Survey

October 16, 2007 at 06:13 PM

A List Apart has released the survey results from their first annual Web Design Survey.

There’s a ton of data in the report, but I think it will be very interesting to peruse. It gives a pretty decent look at the skill levels and such in the industry today.

Findings from the ALA Web Design Survey

Designers & Developers for MDA

August 29, 2007 at 11:19 AM

“We’re known as sticklers for standards, purveyors of good design and creators of beautiful things on the web, but do they know us for being supporters of a great cause?”

Designers & Developers for MDA

A challenge to the web community from Ryan Irelan to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. If you have a few spare dollars, please help out this great cause and donate. If not, please at least link to this page on Ryan’s site.

Simplelog Redirection Plugin

July 12, 2007 at 09:14 AM

Prior to my switch to Simplelog as my blogging platform, I had built up a decent readership at this site. After the switch, a my feed URL changed, so naturally I popped on over to Feedburner and updated my URL. In the following weeks, I noticed that the number of readers of my feed had been almost cut in half. I was pretty sure I hadn’t written anything that would have offended that many people, so I started investigating a little further.

Then it hit me, there were probably a lot of people that were still subscribed to my (very old) feed URL from my Wordpress days that was being redirected toward my Feedburner URL. I just needed to find a way to graceful 301 redirect this URL to Feedburner. Since there was no way to do this (currently) in Simplelog interface, I wrote my own plugin to suit my needs.

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Schedule Local Backups With iCal and Automator

June 14, 2007 at 09:30 AM

A while back Matt Brett posted a message on twitter that he was looking for a simple backup/sync solution for OSX. I dropped him an email with my backup solution and thought to myself that it would be a good idea to post it here as well. Of course, time passed and I still hadn’t gotten around to getting anything written up, until Matt posted an article on his site about the power of twitter, and mentioned my backup script. Since then I’ve had a constant stream of emails flowing into my inbox about my backup script, so finally, here it is.

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Joost Invites

May 14, 2007 at 02:26 PM

“Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.”

I’ve got a ton of Joost invites to give away (read unlimited). If you haven’t tried out the service yet and are interested in this new media phenomena, drop a line to joost@from-away.net with a quick note including the email address you’d like the invite sent to.

I Took It!

April 24, 2007 at 08:20 AM

I just finished taking the First Annual A List Apart Web Design Survey.

The survey took me less than five minutes to complete, and because I offered my name and email address at the end of the survey, I’ve been entered to win a free ticket to An Event Apart event, an Apple 30GB video iPod, an Event Apart jump drive, or an A List Apart T-shirt.

Personally, I’m very curious to see the results of this survey, especially with all of the recent discussion surrounding gender diversity at web conferences, and the industry in general.

So, if you’ve got 5 spare minutes and would like the chance to win some cool prizes, make sure to take the survey.