Technology (page 3)
Progressive enhancement and Flash: no longer a pact with the Devil
Using xHTML as an accessible data source for Flash objects just got a bit easier thanks to Faust.
- Originally published: 17 Feb 2009 in Technical
jQuery .html() returns strange results in IE after other bindings
Sometimes we’re stuck with junk attributes in jQuery.html() for Internet Explorer.
- Originally published: 17 Feb 2009 in Technical
Information design and philosophy
What does philosophy and social theory have to do with information design and user experience?
- Originally published: 22 Dec 2008 in Information design
Testing the relevance of contributed or migrated content
Using historical theories and concepts to determine how to model content for a content management solution.
- Originally published: 2 Dec 2008 in Information design
Belgium Usability Day
I attended an event marking the Belgian contribution to World Usability Day 2008.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2008 in Technical
The forced downgrade: going back to Visio for web prototyping
What happens when you have to drop your fancy prototyping software and go back to Office apps?
- Originally published: 8 Nov 2008 in Technical
GRUB loses its way when SATA disk fails
GRUB can sometimes be a bit temperamental when hardware issues arise.
- Originally published: 12 Oct 2008 in Linux
Sound advice: a tale of two cards
Problems configuring an NVIDIA sound card to play nicely with Linux Mint.
- Originally published: 12 Oct 2008 in Linux
Minty fresh Linux
I decided to roll out a dual boot installation of Linux Mint on my own box. First signs are positive.
- Originally published: 7 Oct 2008 in Linux
CmapTools for concept mapping and OWL authoring
Working with the free software that’s nothing less than legal mind expansion!
- Originally published: 25 Apr 2008 in Technical
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Easter in Munich
Art, design, beer gardens and a food market. Just a few reasons to love Munich.
- Originally published: 12 Apr 2007 in Europe
Cake in the Condroz
After a week of very warm weather, there were finally hints of spring: buds on the trees, early bees and even a red squirrel.
- Originally published: 27 Mar 2010 in Walking
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2010
After a hard winter and a week of rain, we go roadside at the opening race of the 2010 Spring Classics season in professional road cycling.
- Originally published: 28 Feb 2010 in Cycling
With these Rocher, you’re really spoiling us
Smooth and sophisticated, Belgian chocolate is among the finest in the world. But is it a bit much with a cup of tea?
- Originally published: 29 Nov 2009 in Humour
Mud in the Hageland
It can take just a few days’ rain to turn much of Flanders into a sticky morass.
- Originally published: 14 Nov 2009 in Walking
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
Who you gonna call?
Hello, you. I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.