The Agile Manager

MAY 27, 2008

The longer an IT project is expected to take, the greater the risk of moral hazard : i.e., that IT will provide poor information to its business partners or have incentive to take unusual risks to complete delivery. This is not borne of maliciousness. People on an IT project are not necessarily out to defraud anybody. It may simply be that people incompletely scope the work, make assumptions about skills and capabilities, or are overly optimistic in estimates.

Government 40

Government Code Technology Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

MAY 21, 2008

A question I get asked often through emails and other discussions is how I feel about frameworks and libraries, both for scripting and for CSS. I’ve been meaning to share my thoughts on it for awhile, and now that I see NetTuts.com has posted an article about choosing a CSS framework, I figured now is as good a time as any. Any of you who have been reading my site since the beginning might remember I wrote a post about the importance of forcing yourself to reinvent the wheel.

Code 40

Code Efficiency Development 40

Tim Kadlec

MAY 17, 2008

I’ve spent some time lately playing around with the WebKit Nightly Build. In addition to having advanced CSS support, the nightly build also introduces a few new proprietary CSS properties (though the plan is to eventually get W3C to implement them in the CSS specification). There are some really cool features being implemented, including CSS gradients, masks and transforms.

Performance 40

Performance 40

Tim Kadlec

MAY 10, 2008

line-height: abnormal. Eric Meyer has a great write-up about how diverse the rendering of line-height: normal is across browsers. Complete with a test page that allows you to see what happens to the value of line-height normal as different fonts and font-sizes are selected. What’s Next in jQuery and JavaScript. John Resig of jQuery fame posted a nice 11 minute video where he talks about what is coming up for jQuery, Javascript, and some changes that are being made in browsers.

Testing 40

Testing Design Availability Performance 40

Tim Kadlec

MAY 4, 2008

One of the many things CSS lets us control is the opacity of elements, starting in CSS3. The opacity property is in fact one of the earliest and most widely implemented CSS3 properties. It has its problems though, but CSS3 also defines a more powerful way to control an element’s transparency: RGBA values. The Opacity Property. To change the opacity of an element using the opacity property, you simply give it a value between 0 and 1 to determine the elements’ opacity.

Internet 40

Internet Internet Design Systems 40