Memos from August 2006

Amazon Launches aStore Beta

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Amazon aStore Beta

Just received news through the Ama­zon Asso­ciates Team that their aStore has gone to beta. What is it?

aStore vastly expands on our cur­rent link type offer­ings by giv­ing you the abil­ity to build a ded­i­cated shop­ping area that can be embed­ded within, or linked to from, your website.

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Build your own pro­fes­sional online store fea­tur­ing Amazon.com prod­ucts in min­utes with no pro­gram­ming skills required. Because aStore is a ded­i­cated shop­ping area for your site, it is a great com­pli­men­tary prod­uct for your exist­ing Ama­zon prod­uct links. Vis­i­tors to your site get a pro­fes­sional shop­ping expe­ri­ence through your unique selec­tion of prod­ucts and cat­e­gories and the fea­tures of Amazon.com you have cho­sen includ­ing Cus­tomer Reviews, List­ma­nia, and more. The check­out process is com­pleted through Amazon.com.

You may view the demo store to see an exam­ple of a stand-alone store.

Happy Birthday Jevon!

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It was fun see­ing Jevon sur­prised this past Fri­day. Dude started laugh­ing as soon as he got in the door. I think at first he taught it was a strip­per cause he was blind-folded. Any­ways, the night was fun.

Speak­ing of fun, have you seen Katie Dippold’s cre­ation, Long Awk­ward Pose? For those that haven’t seen the LAP site…

it’s sim­ple, really. Peo­ple look fool­ish when pos­ing for a pic­ture. So tell your loved ones you would like to take their photo… then secretly video­tape them the whole time.

Once you got a lit­tle taste of that, check these out:

Good times indeed! HA!

CSS Naming Convention for Classes and IDs?

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Well, just re-reading some of the cur­rent book­marks in my bag. To note:

I am try­ing to clean up and make things more effi­cient here at work. One goal would be to have a base CSS that will serve as a start­ing point for our Pro­duc­ers and Fron­tend peeps. Another goal would prob­a­bly be a con­ven­tion on how to use it and/or cre­ate new classes and IDs.

One of the things that keeps com­ing up lately would be the nam­ing con­ven­tion of classes and IDs. I used to imple­ment this kind of for­mat “class_name”. Then, only to switch to “class-name” in early ’06. Fast-forward to a cou­ple of months into the year dur­ing a project, I came to find out that if you are refer­ring to either a class­name or an ID (i.e. getEle­ment­ById, or some­thing like that) that the value’s hyphen get stripped out. Can some­one con­firm this phe­nom­ena and/or myth? That is, for exam­ple, doing “id-name” would be imple­mented like so:

document.getElementById("idname")

With that how­ever, would it be more read­able using a camel­Cased name? Although against Tantek’s step #4 in terms of sav­ing the user(s) poten­tial headaches. But would there be prob­lems if there was a stan­dard within one’s orga­ni­za­tion? That is, classes and IDs writ­ten as a vari­able, i.e. some­thing­LikeThis; no hyphens and no underscore.

I look for­ward to hear­ing your end­less wis­dom on this sub­ject sirs and madams. Thanks in advance.

Great to Be Back

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That was one awe­some trip. Big Island Hawai’i for those that don’t know. While I get set­tled back in to “main­land” pace, check out some Ghost Ridin’ (… idiots):