Matthew Gifford » Miscellaneous

Make it so

Matt — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:48:59 +0000

The designer is a bit of a geek.

Happy new year!

Matt — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 08:00:08 +0000

August Wesley Gifford

Matt — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:08:31 +0000

Yesterday was the most miraculous day.

Embracing the clean slate

Matt — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:28:40 +0000

The few of you who actually click through from the feed may have noticed that the site is looking rather bare. While I liked the minimalist look of my old theme, I was starting to feel somewhat limited by the single column. I tried several times to get K2 to look how I wanted. However, I would always become frustrated and revert to my old theme. Tonight I decided to start from scratch and install Sandbox. If I remember correctly, this is the theme that I started with when creating my old theme.

Removing something that’s been in your life for a long time can be scary. It’s also liberating.

Happy New Year!

Matt — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:16 +0000

Matt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:27:40 +0000

2008 has been a slow year for this site. I’m going to use the upgrade to WordPress 2.7 as an opportunity to take things in a new direction. Expect big changes soon.

Matt — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:13:22 +0000

Shizzow Google Gadget

Matt — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:53:06 +0000

Shizzow is a location-based social networking site created by Portland web geeks that I have the pleasure of knowing. I love the service, but often don’t remember to update my location. I needed to find a way to remind myself to use it.

Since its recent redesign, I’ve been using iGoogle several times a day. It seemed like the perfect place to put Shizzow.

Because Shizzow doesn’t have an API yet, I couldn’t do much more than embedding the mobile interface in the widget. Once the API is out, I plan on redesigning the UI so it makes more sense in the context of a widget. I also plan on adding some of the full Shizzow site’s functionality to the widget’s canvas view.

If you don’t use iGoogle, you can also embed the widget on any web page.

Links for embedding the widget can be found on its page in the Google gadget gallery.

This is not an official Shizzow product. Problems, questions, and suggestions should be sent to me.

Matt — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:57:04 +0000

Obviously, I didn’t manage to post anything during Web 2.0 Expo. Connectivity problems outside the conference (and sometimes inside the conference), along with being in New York for the first time made blogging rather difficult. I’ll be posting my notes in the coming days.

Matt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:49:02 +0000

Angela and I are in New York this week for Web 2.0 Expo. She’s not attending, of course. It was a good opportunity for her to see New York.

Unlike with past conferences I’ve attended, I’ll probably be posting my thoughts on the sessions in the evenings.

Update: The lack of power in the session rooms is very disappointing.