July, 2010

Links for July 28th

Derek Powazek – Thoughts on Designing for iPad

Some early thoughts from leading the design team on an iPad app. I think it's important for us to gather these thoughts and learn from them as this environment begins fruition.

tags:

user-experience

apple

ipad

design

Daring Fireball: An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs

A solid regular expression for URL matching. Invaluable to have around, easy to forget about.

tags:

regex

programming

RFC (2)822 & 3696 Email Address Parser in PHP

A pattern for validating email addresses in PHP.

tags:

php

regex

programming

Mobile-friendly: The mobile web optimization guide – Opera Developer Community

"This article provides an overview of three different strategies to make your websites work across all devices. We'll call them "mobile-aware" websites, as they're not specifically for mobile sites, but they will work on mobile, as well as across different alternative browsing devices. These strategies are not mutually exclusive; you can mix and match as your project, budget and sanity allows."

tags:

css

html

web-standards

mobile

design

Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now, Using modernizr, webforms2 and html5Widgets

This allows all browsers to support HTML5 form elements. Several browsers support various parts natively and it won't mess with this, but overall support is still sketchy and this helps resolve that for now.

tags:

javascript

html5

html

forms

Links for July 27th

America's god is dying – ABC Religion & Ethics – Opinion

Brilliant words from Stanley Hauerwas on why America's god is just that: an American god, and further that this god is dying. Beyond that, he indicates why this is such a good thing.

tags:

politics

theology

culture

Links for July 26th

A Real Web Design Application | Jason Santa Maria

"The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs."

tags:

software

tools

adobe

design

Celebrating story in a sound bite culture

Rachel Held Evans reflects on the deep differences between stories and sound bites, and what we miss when we don't get the full story.

tags:

news

culture

story

Thoughts on Cornerstone 2010

July 25th, 2010

Each year, I try to reflect on the music and the seminars that I see at Cornerstone Festival (see past posts).

Links for July 20th

reconstruction with some old materials – Notes From Off Center

Drew takes a strong look at issues of sin, atonement, and how we might recommit ourselves to it if we seek to do such a thing.

tags:

theology

atonement

The creativity crisis (Newsweek) « Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun reflects on the American creativity crisis as Newsweek reported it. He takes a look at a story that seemed to give hope, and then reminds us of its implications for the way we teach, do, and reward teachers in our country.

tags:

culture

education

creativity

You can still use div | HTML5 Doctor

When and why we can still use the div tag when using the new semantic elements in HTML5. I've wondered about this; fantastic to have a solid answer.

tags:

design

html

html5

Links for July 19th

Micah Challenge USA – Micah Challenge

"Micah Challenge USA is Christian Campaign to end extreme poverty. We are part of a global Micah Challenge movement of churches, universities, organizations, families, and individuals in 41 countries. Christians from Mozambique to Mongolia are united in prayer and action to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."

tags:

activism

poverty

Weblog » Emergent Village » A Time To Reconstruct

Jonathan Brink lets us see into his ideas for a reconstructed way of looking at the atonement. It's a beautiful piece, and though I'm not entirely sure I'm with him it's worth a read.

tags:

emergent

theology

atonement

Vittana | Building a world where anyone can go to college

Brilliant idea: a site where folks can make loans to individual students around the world so they can afford to go to college. Many people in my generation have been engulfed by student loan debt, but even that is better than the opportunities afforded many folks around the world. This is a way to fix that.

tags:

economic-activism

economics

education

activism

microfinance

How can the West preach nonviolence to Muslims? – Glocal Christianity

An examination of what nonviolence really means, and the utter hypocrisy we show when we try to advocate it for Muslims without doing it ourselves.

tags:

culture

peace-activism

peace

Grieving with Uganda

July 16th, 2010

One of my deep joys of the last few years has been meeting and getting to know folks from Invisible Children - employees, roadies, former roadies, folks from Uganda, and others who have impacted and been impacted by the story there.

Links for July 8th

NextReformation » Structures for Transition

A discussion on "some of the ways and means of transitioning existing church into new ways of being God's people on mission." This kind of thing is really important for folks who work in such structures, and I want to be as supportive of that as possible.

tags:

missiology

ecclesiology

church

mission

Sex for Clean Water? | FlowerDust.net

"I’m riding this century for the women and children who have lost had taken away from them their innocence, their hope, their sense of who they are for the unjust reason of not having clean water or a private place to use the restroom."

tags:

human-rights

activism

water

On a sticker: “Liberal Logic: Terrorists have rights, Christians don’t.”

July 8th, 2010

Last week, we were at Cornerstone Festival 2010. Most years, I write a post or two in advance of the fest, previewing shows and seminars that I'm looking forward to, but this year it just didn't happen due to a lot of craziness that I'll talk about later.

Links for July 6th

Waterboarding and the Media – Powered by Google Docs

Comprehensive study of how the mainstream media redefined torture in favor of the US war machine. Summary: if the US does it, it's not torture. If anyone else does it, it's torture.

tags:

politics

journalism

media

torture