As you may know, it’s obviously important to focus on single task at a time if you try the GTD way. But it’s not easy to implement the concept in our real life. We now have too many projects, tasks, things need to consider. How can we handle it?
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The Space theme is stunning. I can’t stop thinking about better themes for blog sites since I met with the theme. I’m considering to drop sidebars from all sites, and realized how typography is important to improve user experiences.
It’s difficult to make perfect themes like the Space but I updated my own theme a bit. Here are what I did this morning.
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Sole Aim Is Strong
I was surprised when I heard a news that Facebook decided to shutdown its check-in feature. But at a same time, I thought it was a good news for me. Why?
WordPress is getting into a true publishing platform. It’s not just a content management system. They finally started to improve writing experience on the platform with the new awesome feature called Fullscreen mode. The feature was known as Distraction-Free mode or Zen mode.
Once you got into the fullscreen mode by clicking a fullscreen button on a toolbar of ‘Add New Post’ page, you can see what it is and how the mode improve your writing experience.
Here are some screen photos of my admin pages.
Of course not only the feature. According to Matt the author of WordPress, WordPress 3.2 is faster and lighter than before. And I can feel it since I updated.
If you own WordPress sites on your server, it’s a good time to update.
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messa Open Space and Open Coffee Osaka
We’re going to have two events tomorrow at messaliberty in Juso Osaka. First one is messa Open Space for co-working, and second one is Open Coffee Osaka for networking or exchanging ideas. You can see more information at messa Open Space and at Open Coffee Osaka.
Start from 1pm tomorrow. And it’s free. Hope to see you there!
Update
You can get more info here:
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Which is the best way?
I’m trying to take notes to track what I’m going to do to help myself and my team in some way.
Personally, I always took notes by myself since a few years ago in some emacs based notes or Google docs. Then I thought I should try the same kind of thing in public space if I wanna get more productive feedbacks or good effects especially in the social media era.
The problem is here. Which is the best way to do it? Just start an another blog? Or do it on some my sub/experimental blogs like Posterous etc? To use Facebook status or Twitter are also an option.
I’m still thinking about it but I just started to use Tumblr as the logging place. I may choose another one in near future but will share what I thought if I change the way.
If I have choices to start something, I’d choose an open option.
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Best Tutorials To Step Into HTML5 And CSS3
Here are links which I read to make my WordPress theme which based on HTML5/CSS3. The images are my old theme and new HTML5 based flexible theme.
Let me quote some important part.
Facts
Need to know these facts before dive into it.
There’s also the fact that by using HTML5 code right now your website gets stuck in some kind of “limbo” since even though your browser will render HTML5, it does not understand it as of yet. This may also apply to other software such as screenreaders and search engines.
Lastly you must consider that HTML5 is still under heavy development, and it’s probably the “most open” project the W3C has ever done.
Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation
These concepts made the HTML5 more attractive.
Graceful Degradation is a widely used term which ideology is basically using the latest technologies first, and then fix anything that needs fixing for older browsers. We do this on a daily basis: most of us code for Firefox first, then fix Internet Explorer.
Progressive Enhancement refers to the habit of building first for the less capable, outdated browser and then enhance for the latest technologies. We, too, use this on a daily basis. For example, most of the times we code a website we start with the markup and then apply an external CSS file where we add all the styling.
Framework
To use framework is one option when you start to build a web site. I recommend to use a framework especially for beginners because it’s a faster way to launch and you can learn a lot from the framework. I choose Less Framework to build a flexible layout.
Grid System
This is not related to HTML5/CSS3 but if you wanna make a beautiful web site, 960 grid system may help you.
I made the image for Pixcel Perfect to figure out width etc.
More Resources
My friend Oli told me these links to learn HTML5. Thanks Oli!
Oli’s intro articles
- div, section, article
- header, hgroup, h1-h6
- nav, aside, figure, footer
- HTML 4 and XHTML 1 to HTML5
- Block-level links
- HTML5Doctor he is one of the authors
HTML5 and Firefox
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How I Input/Output Content On The Web
I’d like to write down my information flow. The diagram above which I made at Cacoo says it all. But here are some additional explanation.
Source
‘Web’ means information which I can get from the Internet. ‘Life’ means things I get through my daily life. Nothing special in this part.
Filter/Input
Yahoo! Pipes is one of the most important tool. It’s the easies way to aggregate RSS feeds without wiring lines of code and ugly tricks.
My social content including Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Blog posts, etc are streamed into FriendFeed. And Yahoo! Pipes aggregates the FriendFeed content and stared articles on Instapaper. Then FeedBurner’s email subscription feature send the fetched content to my Evernote. Done.
As a feed reader, I’m using Google Reader and also using InstaReader to import my starred articles into Instapaper automatically. This combination helps me to read tons of articles. I just brown articles on Google Reader with keyboard shortcuts to find must read articles then I can read the articles on my iPad or iPhone with Instapaer app even if I’m offline.
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Worst User Interface Design Ever
Take a look at a pic above which I took this evening at a small restaurant. This is a machine for free drinks and you can see several buttons on it.
If you’d like to drink a cup of cold water, where do you touch? As you can see, most of people touch buttons on right side and that’s why the buttons are fading away. I also touched.
But, the buttons on right side are not clickable. It’s not a button but a label to show what kind of hot/cold drink you can get. I couldn’t imagine that even when I touch the label.
People keep touching the labels and then the labels are getting more like buttons. Why’d this happen? That’s because the restaurant haven’t maintained the button area ever. People make mistakes sometimes but we all have chances to recover it.
If your labels are fading away, it’s time to change something.
I made a new theme for my blog and I choose HTML5. Visit here if you are subscribing via email or RSS. Nothing special, it still looks quite simple.
To develop something is always the best way to learn new technologies and that’s the reason why I developed the theme. Here are what I’ve learned from the process.
- Framework is important to develop HTML5 base web sites.Productive programmers prefer to use well designed frameworks or modules to develop apps. Same thing is happening. In HTML5 era, writing HTML/CSS is not only for web designers. Programmers will come to write HTML/CSS. It’s going to change the development process. I chooseLess Framework 4 for my blog theme. It helps me to write flexible layout to support various resolutions without writing tons of lines of code.
- ‘Progressive enhancement’ helps us to live in the future. In a few years ago, I was always working hard to make pixel perfect web design for all available browsers but it doesn’t make sense anymore. No one want to get it except the author. The most important thing is to make compatible design for all available browsers and devices. Please resize the current window to see what will happen.
- HTML5 is fun to use. I know it’s not perfect yet but unlike older version of HTML, I feel philosophy. We always need to focus on content itself while writing code to make sure what kind of content will be displayed there. This is how we can write beautiful code.
My first version is not enough. I need to try more to find out better way to use elements or techniques but I’ve learned a lot from this first version.