August 2009
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Happy Cogs at SXSW
August 24, 2009
With over 2,000 proposed panels from which a mere 300 will be culled, there’s no shortage of content for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Panels featuring Happy Cog personnel include the juicy candidates listed next.
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Pre-order DWWS 3e
August 24, 2009
The 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards, founder Jeffrey Zeldman’s magnum opus and the foundational web standards text, is now available for pre-order at savings of 37% off. Written with Ethan Marcotte, this major revision to the book that changed how websites get designed and developed captures the explosion of new ideas and technologies that are shaking up standards-based design. From HTML 5 to web fonts, CSS3 to WCAG2, Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition captures this moment, makes sense of it, and keeps readers smartly ahead of the pack. Zeldman’s blog describes what’s new in this edition. There is also the first page of a new book mini-site, which makes interesting use of embedded web type that works in all browsers.
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Motown and JavaScript
August 24, 2009
In Issue No. 290 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, Jonathan Snook tells how to use MVC (Model-View-Controller) thinking to create ever more modular JavaScript in your web applications, and Margot Bloomstein makes the case for content strategy—Motown style.
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Biz Journal Profiles Cog
August 21, 2009
“Happy Cog Studios, the New York-based boutique Web design firm that did most of its work for customers out of Center City, has added an office on the West Coast.” So begins The Philadelphia Business Journal’s coverage of the Airbag and Happy Cog merger, and its profile of Happy Cog East business leaders Greg Hoy and Robert Jolly.
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ALA 289: redesigns
August 4, 2009
In Issue No. 289 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: 90% of web design is redesign. The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself. In this special issue, we look at how two of the great ones handled the challenge of redesigning their own sites.
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Redesign yourself!
August 4, 2009
90% of web design is redesign. The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself. Erskine Design’s Simon Collison and freelancer Lea Alcantara share insights, process, in Issue No. 289 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.
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Happy Cog merges with Airbag Industries
August 3, 2009
Happy Cog and Airbag Industries, two leading and influential web design firms, announce that they are merging. The resulting super-agency will be called Happy Cog, and will maintain studios in three cities: New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.