My name is Wil Alambre and this is my website! I’m a thirty-something web developer that lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. You can find out more about me by using the navigation menu on the right, or browse through my collect blog articles and interesting links below...
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Facebook Finds its Place in the Location-Sharing Landscape
GDC 10: Indies and Publishers: a System that Never Worked
Rock Band 3 out this holiday season
Microsoft begins rolling out redesigned MSN homepage
Cisco's big announcement? A new router
TRON: LEGACY - Official Trailer
Wil's Daily Links for Monday
Top 10 Geekiest Decorations for Your Home or Office [PICS]
Cameron Moll on His Weblog Redesign
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★ Attention Is the Real Resource
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All Six HTML WG Working Drafts Have Been Published
Rock Band Network live on Xbox 360, 105 songs available
Code Gone Wrong
Developers live in code. They
Wil's Daily Links for Wednesday
More Portal madness: Portal gets a new ending
Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended
30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less
Real-Life Wonka Golden Ticket contest
Wil's Daily Links for Tuesday
Top 5 Web Design Debates That Cause the Most Riots
Starbucks to introduce 32-oz coffee supersize, the "Trenta"
Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement
Gorillaz - Stylo - YouTube Premiere! (HD)
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version
Wil's Daily Links for Monday
Not a lie: Valve updates Portal with secret radio broadcast images
Hellsongs - Symphony Of Destruction (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Gold Medal Game Most Watch Broadcast in Canadian History
Replicas: Time Bandits map, Battlestar Galactica cubits
Wacom revamps 21-inch Cintiq display-tablet
How Hard Is It to Give Away Free Umbrellas in a Rainstorm?
Post-Earthquake: Why Chile's Telescopes Survived [Telescopes]
Wil's Daily Links for Friday
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iTunes Store Reaches 10 Billion Downloads
Next Firefox to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support
Photos of 100+ different flavors of Kit Kat
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YouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13
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McDonald’s Free Coffee in March
Gears adopters face rough transition as Google goes HTML5
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A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services
StarCraft 2 PC Beta client is now live
Meebo Is the New King of iPhone Messaging Apps [IPhone Apps]
RACC Redevelopment, In Progress
Over the long weekend, I found some time to keep working on the redesign/update of my website, including the Rec Arts Comics Creative area. I’ve had a clear picture of how I wanted it to work for a while now, but I kept getting stumped when I tried to apply a design to it... it just wouldn’t come together. Over the last couple days, it finally started to gel, and I have the following (in-progress) page in working order...
I’ve managed to strap the general layout I previewed before with the colours and logo I put together recently, all on HTML5. Also, rather than parsing Google Groups’ RSS feed every time the page is loaded, I now have a cron script that drops all new items into a database... much faster page loads, and easier to manage.
The news on the left sidebar now have short summaries, rather than just the titles. The biggest change has been the "collapse" of the recently released comic issues in the main column. In the current live site, each posted issue had a place on the twelve-recent-issues main column... however, I was discovering that issues usually came from the same series in "bursts". Someone would write a four issue arc for example, and those issues would make up a quarter of the recent releases. There was nothing inherently wrong with that, but I wanted it to be more like a comic-book stand; highlight all the recent series (not necessarily the recent issues), and have "previous" issues available "behind" them.
The new layout is a move toward that idea. Now, when an new issue is posted, it automatically appears at the top of the column, as before. If there is an older issue in the column (released earlier), then it is removed, and listed with the newest issue under the Past Issues heading. A great result of this is the new layout lists issues from today all the way back to early November, where the current one only lists it back to mid-January... yet both only have about twelve main entries.
Hope you RACC-eteers the preview. Feel free to comment with thoughts and/or suggestions :)
Wil's Daily Links for Tuesday
Dodgeball Guinness World Record set by 1,200 U of A Students
Tonio Loewald on Adobe and HTML5
First study of mummy DNA leads to all sorts of discoveries
Feb 16 is the BBS
On this day in 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first-ever dial-up BBS, in Chicago. They got the idea while trapped inside during a blizzard, and published it in
Feb 16 is the BBS's 32nd birthday
On this day in 1978, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launched the first-ever dial-up BBS, in Chicago. They got the idea while trapped inside during a blizzard, and published it in
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MHappiness
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Keep your 20-sided dice, I have D
Flattr: new micropayments system from Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde
Common Misconceptions about Web Designers
BUStxt for Winnipeg Transit Information
Canadian customs refuse to disclose laptop border search policy
Greg from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association sez,
A big thanks to everyone who is being patient and polite with me as I show off my new car to them... thanks for putting up with me :P
- Marlo Vivo #1
The Trouble With Being Very Good At Being Very Bad, part 1 - Marlo Vivo #2
The Trouble With Being Very Good At Being Very Bad, part 2
- Metal Fire #7
False Maria, part 1 - Metal Fire #8
False Maria, part 2 - Metal Fire #9
False Maria, part 3 - Metal Fire #10
False Maria, part 4
- Time Capsules #4
The Plane That Came Down And Woke Up the World
- November 2009
Molly Greenwitch