I recently got an email from Patrick McNeil from Design Meltdown letting me know that his new book "The Design Meltdown Book" is up for pre-sale.

Why am I telling you this? Because I am in it! :) On page 24 to be exact.

A big thanks to Patrick for putting my site in the book! The book has my old design in it, since it went to the publisher before I finished the current design on my site.

Check it out here: www.dmdthebook.com

And pre-order it if you are so inclined :)

Thanks everyone!

Peace,
Drew

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to pass along some code (PHP to be exact) to you all:

If ($time == “available”){
  switch ($meal) {
  case “breakfast”:
    echo "Party at my place!!!";
    break;
  case “lunch”:
    echo "Party at my place!!!";
    break;
  case “dinner”:
    echo "Party at my place!!!";
    break;
  }
} else {
  echo “Try again next week.”;
}

My buddy Nate Firth (also responsible for all my web hosting :) sent me this little script this morning. I thought it was super hilarious :) We have been trying to get some chill time for a while now, but we are both super busy with projects. I have been in my web design "cave" from 7am-10pm almost every day for the last month and a half. Trying to get stuff done.
I can't wait until June is over... I should have more free time then **crosses fingers.

Thanks again for the laugh Nate!

Hope you enjoy this script :) But in all seriousness, I will have some awesome javascript to share with you all once Firebolt is out. I have created a bunch of custom javascript for Firebolt, and lets just say my main inspiration was "Leopard". Yes, like Mac OS X. I love the new UI features in Leopard, so I wrote some javascript to bring similar functionality into Firebolt. So once I get some time (after the release) to package up the scripts... I will hand them over to you all :)

Remember to sign up for the Firebolt beta (released in a few weeks) if you haven't already: www.getfirebolt.com

Peace,
Drew

Not even close.

I randomly started thinking about this and spent a few minutes doing some basic research. Here is what I found.

First you need to define what is a comfortable amount of space for a person to live in. For this example I am using San Francisco. It's not the most densely populated city out there, but it does have a lot of people and they seem to enjoy living there (not me though... not a big city person).

In San Francisco the city (not the bay area) there are 764,976 people living there among all the businesses, hospitals, churches, etc. San Francisco the city is 48 sq. miles. So there are 16,000 people per sq. mile. Great, now we have some data to do some math with.

There are 6.6 billion people in the world today. Thats a lot.
Now divide 6.6 billion by 16,000. That will give you how many sq. miles it will take to hold all the people in the world with the same living conditions as San Fransisco.

You end up with 41,250 sq. miles. So what does that much space actually look like? Well, the 35th largest state in the USA is Ohio (that means it is pretty small compared to the other states :) Ohio is 41,330 sq. miles.

Thats right, the entire world's population can fit into the state of Ohio with the same living conditions as the city of San Francisco.

So no... the world is not over populated.

I am reminded of a road trip I took across the USA once. There is nobody living anywhere in the middle of the USA, only on the coasts is it really populated. The USA has SOO much empty space. And thats a good thing :) For instance the state of North Dakota has just 640,000 people. Alaska has 670,000 people. Both states have less people than the city of (not the whole county, just the city) San Diego... Combined!

I have been to many places around the globe as well, and found that there really is a lot of open space. Now of course some is desert, but that really does not have any impact on just how small amount of people live in the world today. It's crazy to me to think we can all fit in Ohio?! I have been to Ohio... that's crazy awesome :)

Just some random info for you all. Hope you enjoy!

Peace,
Drew

I just finished a new holder site for Firebolt. It gives you a sneak peek, as well as some feature descriptions.

Check it out: GetFirebolt.com

Peace,
Drew

If you haven't already signed up for Twitter... do it! I never had the desire to sign up, but I did... and it is actually fun :)

Check out my page here: http://twitter.com/drewwilson

I will update the blog soon, but I have just been beyond swamped lately... and still am... so I gotta get back to it.

Peace!

Drew

Hey Everyone!
It has been a while since my last update, and the reason is because I have been just slammed with work and business. It's all good stuff, but finishing up a couple projects and looking forward to the very near release of Firebolt!

I wanted to invite you all out to BarCamp San Diego, May 3rd & 4th. I just got word of this event earlier today from Josh Brewer (thanks Josh!). I will be there, and it would be great to meet any of you who are near the San Diego area. You can get more info on what BarCamp is at: BarCamp.org

I will be giving a sneak preview demo of Firebolt, so be sure to make it on Saturday & Sunday (I dunno when I will be presenting because it is first come first serve, but I hope I get on the list!) Lots of great stuff to talk about!

Hope to see you all there.

Peace,
Drew

It's been my trusty side-kick back in the day, but recntly hasn't seen much action. So I am going to let my GL2 go.
If you want one, let me know.
Check out the craigslist post for more info.
Thanks everyone!

Peace,
Drew

I love the fact that Apple is all about design. They are always on top of their game when it comes to adding "designer-friendly" features to their browser Safari.

Check out this article at Apple Insider: Apple's Safari 3.1 to support downloadable web fonts, more

Web font support is cool I guess... but having HTML5's SQL Storage API built into the browser is wicked sweet! And bringing Javascript functionality to the browser natively??!!! Freaking awesome. I can't wait for a few years down the road when we can do away with all Javascript, and just code for the browsers... natively.

But, oh... wait. IE still exists :( If only this were a Safari world...

Anyway, the new Safari will support more CSS goodness like Transforms & Animations... Safari is so cool.

Peace,
Drew