While working on the forthcoming redesign of the Beam website, FF DIN was made available for licensing with @font-face in WOFF format. It was also released on Typekit.

DIN is Beam’s corporate font and this news presented me with an opportunity to pursue Typekit as an alternative to font replacement techniques like sIFR and Cufón.

While it would appear that the perfect solution had just dropped into my lap; Typekit is a hosted service and this dependance on an external service concerned me.

For posterity’s sake here are the slides from my talk today on scrappy prototypes. They likely make no sense out of context.

Scrappy Prototypes (PDF)

On and off for the past few months i’ve been playing with an idea for a lightweight JavaScript framework. I hate to use the term ‘framework’ but i can’t think of a better way to describe it. Perhaps this is a terrible approach to JavaScript development but it’s been fun to experiment.

I’m sitting by my gate ready to fly home from Austin after one absolutely fantastic week at SXSWi. Coming out here i wasn’t sure what to expect.

Geek Camp

I’ve been to a whole slew of conferences in the past. But this was an experience like no other. So much so that it’s prompted me to write my first blog post for months (curse you twitter!).