novolocus.com » 2007 » May http://www.novolocus.com Whatever Andy Burns is working on... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:00:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Nice list of fonts http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/31/nice-list-of-fonts/ http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/31/nice-list-of-fonts/#comments Thu, 31 May 2007 14:05:19 +0000 Andy http://www.novolocus.com/?p=66 Nice fonts here. Now if there were some way to push them onto the client…

…actually, why the hell isn’t there? A truetype font is, what, 100-200k? Why aren’t these downloaded to some form of isolated storage, and used for display purposes in the browser. You can even, oh, I don’t know, have a font cache, so you don’t have to download them repeatedly. Perhaps some sort of signing mechanism to avoid version problems.

Comments from my old blog:

Yes - very good list. Myriad is a great font - it manages to strike a balance between being pretty, and practical too. Fonts are one of those areas where I benefit from having a designer for a brother, so was exposed to lots of barracking when I was younger and playing with DTP software… “make the line height 120%”, “make the body text smaller”, “no more than 2 fonts on a page!” and other rules of thumb…

By Jonathan at 18:06:08 Tuesday 5th June 2007

]]> http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/31/nice-list-of-fonts/feed/ Graphics and Developers http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/03/graphics-and-developers/ http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/03/graphics-and-developers/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 09:05:55 +0000 Andy http://www.novolocus.com/?p=68 Coding Horror has blogged about developers needing to know graphics programs, and I agree entirely. Jeff’s right, we’re not designers, and never will be (I don’t even wear glasses, let alone ‘cool’ ones). Don’t try and learn how to build beautiful websites if you’re a developer - either, you’re gifted and you already can, or there is simply too much learning involved.

But we can build ‘fair’ sites, and rough mock ups. Every site doesn’t have to be a work of art, just as every ceiling doesn’t have to be the Sistine chapel. As developers, we should make an effort to not build websites that look crap.

And if you need to build the Sistine chapel, remember it’s a team effort. You can build the structure - and get a specialist to make the ceiling pretty.

Link to some tutorials Jeff provided (note to self - take a look)

]]> http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/03/graphics-and-developers/feed/ Get around workflow version issues - and better ways to start workflows http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/03/get-around-workflow-version-issues-and-better-ways-to-start-workflows/ http://www.novolocus.com/2007/05/03/get-around-workflow-version-issues-and-better-ways-to-start-workflows/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 09:05:44 +0000 Andy http://www.novolocus.com/?p=69 Workflow versioning in SharePoint by Daniel Herzog. Yeah, it’s a problem that I’ve been wondering about, and his suggestions are valid. I was interested by the link to Start workflows from the context menu - to me, this is a much more natural place to start a workflow from.

Found from Julie’s Blog

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