dangerouslyawesome

I'm Alex Hillman, the co-founder of IndyHall and a guy who makes things better in Sunny Philadelphia.

I work on Beanstalk, Postmark, and DynamicWear.

I think technology is cool, but people are infinitely cooler.

bubble-ability

not the gum kind, not the 90′s dot com kind, the javascript event kind!

quick reference post today, i found a handy chart while reading through Apress Ajax Patterns and Best Practices. This graphic, in the chapter about the decouple navigation pattern (post to come, perhaps), charts the ability to bubble-ability and “cancel-ability”, in a cross browser fashion, so you can limit yourself to event triggers that work!

(c)2006 Apress/thanksdontsuemeplease (note: i’m pretty sure onmousdown/onmousmove are typos, missing an ‘e’)

cause you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores, and selling crack, and running over school kids with your car

I fully support weird al and his new track, ‘Don’t download this song”. More importantly, I support his decision to fuel the irony of his track by making it a free download from myspace. The song, to the tune of an 80′s “we are the world” style song (no direct parody, just a thematic parody) is cleverly written, and echoes tones of the South Park Episode in which bands, including Metallica, join stan and his band in a strike against playing until people agree to stop downloading their music for free. Their motivation? To make sure that rock stars don’t have to live their lives in “semi-luxury”. Al puts another spin on the track as well, but I wont spoil the fun for you. Enjoy, and pre-order your copy of “Straight Outta Lynwood” now.

snakes, snakes, snakes

I saw Snakes on a Plane yesterday, and have been trying to put the experience into words since, without giving too much away. Luckily, some professional writers did the job way better than I ever could….much, much better.

lazy netscape

obviously, it was for browser-testing purposes only, but i had to install Netscape 8.1 on my computer today.

I don’t know, but I think that if an established browser that has been around for a couple of decades can’t figure out how to anti-alias the graphics for their installer, that someone should be flogged. Thats just me though.

Yuck

inspiration festival goes live

still a bit of work to do (clean up wiki styles, style/brand the forum, load FAQs and a tutorial, and get the php mail() function turned on), but since the press and other advertising means are about to take a spin through their material, it made sense to go live a bit premature and clean things up between now and the event.

oh, right, the event.

On September 25-27, 2006, 150 of the world's top advertising creatives will join 35 of America's foremost thought leaders in business, entertainment, science, technology and the arts in a challenging and compelling exchange of ideas.

Yep, thanks to the powers that be I got the opportunity to design (with their help) and develop a feed aggrigator for the Inspiration Festival home page (as well as some subsidiary informational pages).

Working with Chris and Tara has been a pleasure so far, and I expect our conversations and experiences to extend beyond this project. Cheers!

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