Intellectual property is a bitch. It's an evil far worse than lawyers, lawsuits and contracts. It's the monster in the closet for creatives. Most people who actually create could care less about IP law. They just don't want people to unjustly steal their work. Who owns my work? Who cares? I just want it in… Keep reading
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Life is a lot like a box of chocolates. Or maybe it’s just a stream of consciousness. Little bits left along the path, lost in the woods. But someone picked up the bits and made them whole again. Welcome to Kyle’s life — streamlined.
Side projects, manifestations of ideas, and the general art of pursuing knowledge created these. Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, and a flurry of other acronyms power them.
These are my children left ’round the web.
Over the past few years, I’ve been contacted by a good number of recruiters, and even been part of the recruitment process a few times. I’ve come to realize why recruiters are such failures in life. Here’s a lesson in fail, and hopefully some of you recruiters will learn. I don’t care Generally speaking, if I [...]
While I’m nearing 1½ years after my own college graduation, I thought it might be a good idea to start writing down some of my own experiences from college. First up: how to make the worst of your college career. 1. Take as many AP classes as you can in High School Who needs those dumb ass [...]
One of the most common problems for me is knowing when I last deployed my apps, and what I’ve done since then. I often will leave an app on the side for a month or two at a time, and there’s a good chance I implemented some new fix, waited until a low-traffic time [...]
I believe the recent surge in popularity of CSS frameworks comes from a lack of basic understanding of the CSS box model and how it’s implemented across browsers. I wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls so you can create your own CSS framework in no time flat, without all the cruft of having ten thousand column combinations available. Keeping these quick tips in mind at all times will allow you to do something I like to call defensive coding — and really that’s all CSS frameworks are: defensively coded snippets of CSS.
I had the need recently to deploy a merb app. Since this whole project is about trying new things (merb, rspec, etc) I thought I might as well give Vlad a try. Unfortunately, as most things sysadmin go I ran into some bumps. So I thought I’d write it out so future googlers have less of a problem getting things going.
A while ago I set myself on a personal mission to learn Flex. I know myself around HTML, CSS, and Javascript like a pro -- but to be honest I've never been a fan of overly "strict" programming environments like Flex. Actionscript 3 is a strongly-typed language, and the the rest of Flex is all XML files. It was a hard transition to me (being a huge fan of loosely typed languages like Ruby). As a result, I was having an increasingly difficult time picking up Flex — so I opted to pick up a book.
On July 10, the Smashing Pumpkins released the first album they've released in what feels like decades (oh, wait...). I desperately wanted to see them play with the opening tour, but despite the fact that they played for eleven days straight in San Francisco, the tickets still sold out within a few minutes and I missed my window. Show or no show, I picked up the CD the day it came out and overall I've been very pleased.
I first saw The Used play at the Boardwalk in Sacramento around the summer of 2000. It was one of the most memorable concerts of my life: a small club, tons of girls, three inches from the speaker and the stage, and a lineup that was unbelievably badass. At the time, The Used were just the third opening band of the night. NobodyZero (now defunct), some unmemorable band, The Used, and then finally Fenix TX headlining.
Almost a year ago The roots came out with Game Theory – which in my opinion has quickly become one of the best hip-hop records of all time. I'm not a huge hip-hop fan, and I don't claim to know the full extent of the scene. But I do know good music when I hear it, and this is damn good music.
The Shape of Punk to Come is a revolutionary album. Not only is it truly genre-bending, but it's a damn good album to listen to. I must admit, the first time I heard the album I was a skeptic. I just thought it was a bunch of crap thrown onto a CD. My mistake was listening to songs, and not the album as a whole.
On the web since ‘98, web professional Kyle Neath provides resources, tips and commentary on all things web. Here you’ll read about topics covering design, programming, copywriting, and information design.
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All my little projects that I leave scattered around the web. Some for profit, all for fun.
