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Mar 25

SoundManager2 HTML 5 Audio Support -

Now it’s as easy to turn on HTML5 Audio in your app by adding “soundManager.enableHtml5Audio = true;” in your bootstrap.  Tested and working on Safari and Chrome.  Next up: flashless-able and getting the footprint down to 15K compressed (currently ~38k)

1. allow flash to be completely optional if html5 enabled
2. removing all the Flash 8 conditionals (sorry, you’ve had 3 years to update.  time to kill it)
3. figuring out a way to do the build that can remove all of the debug code 
4. possible slimjim build that is HTML5 only

Profit distribution

Mar 24

Spent way too much time trying to track down this album last night.  Well worth it though.  Apparently its caught up in the Interscope mess along with the Salt Mine DVD. 

Mar 23

HTML5 Audio Playback Testing For @jQuery.support

HTML5 Audio Playback Testing For jQuery.support

Mar 22

5 Ways Netflix Could Have Avoided an Ugly User Backlash -

Never understand why people don’t just post their sketches and notes.  80% of user-pissed-off-ness can be eliminated simply by telling them why you made a change.  For example, designing the guardian iphone app.

Mar 08

Collaboration and the creation of the Xbox 360

Mar 01

Death by Analysis

Lessons Learned:

• Too often competitive analysis drives product requirements in startups.
• This can lead engineering to build the maximum feature set rather than minimum feature set.
• You need to get outside the building and figure out what features matter to most customers.
• No feature lists without facts.

— from Death by Analysis by Steve Blank

Would add to this in that it’s about building tools, not features. Sloppily implemented features that exist only because they’re on a punch sheet and not because they’re solving a core problem your product addresses will always end tragically. (most likely, rm -rf <feature-name>/).  Read the whole post though.  It’s quite excellent.

Clients From Hell: Blue skies thinking -

Client: “I love what you have come up with here, but I feel what we need here is some blue skies thinking.”

Me: “(pause for effect) Can you explain what you mean?”

Client: “You know, think outside of the box, push the envelope. I just don’t think we are both singing from the same hymn sheet…

Feb 11

“When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in.” —

@sivers TED Talk

Scarily similar to step 4 of how to survive the apocalypse… (thanks @atmyers)