This isn’t directly related to usability, but I just finished a date formatting function that I’ve been working on for a while.  It’s based on PHP’s date() function.  I frequently work with both javascript and PHP together, and I often find myself wanting PHP’s date function in javascript, too, which doesn’t have much in the [...]

I recently wrote a post about desiging for people who don’t feel like they can understand computers.  Specifically, I said, “The trick is adding a sense of empowerment and taking out the disempowering elements.”  That can mean all sorts of things in different situations, but I saw a really interesting example of it in a [...]

WordPress can’t figure out what character set it’s in and is spewing junk text left and right.  Will fix tomorrow, giving up for the evening.  I hate character sets. Edit: Fixed!  It turned out that the plugin I installed to produce pdf files for things like my resume was converting all utf-8 characters on all [...]