Dave Shea's mezzoblue

Before committing this past Friday evening to a flight down the west coast, I spent a bit of time preparing to try out something that I'd been curious about for a while. Could I get through US im...

The pixel factory sitting on my desktop has been busy this fall. I have not one but three new Chalkwork sets to announce today (discounting the weekend heads-up on Twitter, of course).
Chalkwork ...

It's that time again, but things are a little different. Web Directions North returns for another year of conferencing and skiing in early February, but it's now taking place in Denver, Colorado....

Here's an idea. Take a great product with one glaringly flawed feature, put together an application that exploits the awfulness of that feature in a few brilliantly simple ways, and then sell it ...

Somehow over the last year or two we've landed in a situation where most browsers now default to full page zoom instead of traditional text-resizing.
Opera has long used zoom instead of text scal...

I can't be the only one bored to tears of simple border and background colour styling for button formatting.
I recently worked on an application that used a common graphical button style across a...

Over the past three months I've gotten myself used to checking all my projects into a pair of Subversion repositories, one for personal projects and another for all my client work. In both cases ...

I'm wading deep into unfamiliar water here, so take my assessment with a grain of salt because I'm not sure I'm describing it totally accurately. But this strikes me as a Big Deal that needs to b...

I was about to Flickr this and leave it at that, but then I remembered oh yeah, I've got a web site.
This morning's mail brought me a renewal notice from my domain registrar. The currently-dorman...

Time to dive back in to the Bright Creative redesign I wrote about last week, and focus on some of the good stuff that came out of it.
Most people got it; but for anyone who misinterpreted my lau...