Your shirt. My iMac.

OK. Here’s the deal. I know this blog has been … well… inactive for a while. I’ve been a little wrapped up in getting married. That’ll all wrap up soon though and I’ll be back.
But I need to dust it off right now. I twittered this: “Offer: Buy me a new iMac (Low end is [...]

OK. Here’s the deal. I know this blog has been … well… inactive for a while. I’ve been a little wrapped up in getting married. That’ll all wrap up soon though and I’ll be back.

But I need to dust it off right now. I twittered this: “Offer: Buy me a new iMac (Low end is fine) and I wear your company t-shirt for a year.” and it pulled a few responses. Both as replies (@s) and in direct messages. And I want to clarify one thing.

I’m serious.

I will wear your company shirt(s) every day for 365 days in exchange for one of the new iMacs. Even the low end. Delivered to my door. A few questions have come up that I’ll address here and update as time goes on.

Are you serious? Yes. You deliver me an iMac. I’ll wear your shirt(s).

So… you’ll never take it off? Well… no. I will simply replace my shirt collection with your shirt(s). I won’t shower in it, or swim in it… I often don’t sleep in shirts either. But when I wear a shirt, it will be yours.

What about special events? An event with a dress code (Weddings, funerals, locations that require specific attire) will be exempted. But for every one day that one of these occurs, I’ll tack on one at the end. So if I don’t wear your shirt for one day due to a wedding, you get 366 days, not 365.

Always the same shirt? I’m willing to purchase TWO shirt, in different patterns or colors. Feel free to provide me with more though. Want a different shirt every day? My closet can hold 365 shirts if it needs to.

Aren’t you going to start to smell funny? No. I’ll still be showering, and the shirt(s) … at least 2… at most… who knows… Will be washed after one wear… So they’ll always be clean.

How will we know you’re wearing it? Trust? I’ll flickr photos, I can youtube, I’ll blog. It’d also be my first mac… So frequent updates, all sponsored by you or your company, will be likely.

Will you cover up the shirt? I’ll accessorize, sure. I may, as I do occasionally, wear a button-up shirt over it (unbuttoned) if the mood strikes me. Jackets, of course, during rain and snow would hide the shirt too.

What else? We can work out additional details, pending additional hardware. More days of shirt wearing? Guaranteed exposure? More blog/video/audio posts? How about a wireless keyboard and mouse? More hard drive? A longer warranty? Software?

I’m in this for sure. If you have questions, or want to take me up on this or make an offer, my email is tommy -at- tommyvallier -dot- com. I’d love to talk.

Safari on Windows?

[Note: This post was written on June 11th, 2007 but I was playing with settings on it and apparently set it to not appear until June 2008. Here it is now for your reading.]
So today Apple, Inc. announced that it’s browser, Safari, would be making itself available on the Windows platform.In addition, Steve Jobs announced [...]

[Note: This post was written on June 11th, 2007 but I was playing with settings on it and apparently set it to not appear until June 2008. Here it is now for your reading.]

So today Apple, Inc. announced that it’s browser, Safari, would be making itself available on the Windows platform.In addition, Steve Jobs announced that Safari (And more specifically HTML/AJAX technologies) would be the primary development platform for the iPhone.

While I’m not a mac user [yet], both of these announcement excite me from the web development point of view.

Single System Testing

Right now, web developers on Windows have a lot of trouble testing web sites across platforms. Sure, I have various versions of IE at my disposal and multiple versions Firefox (Which spans cross-platform) and I have a handful of Linux lice CDs at my disposal for testing with as well. I also frequently use BrowserCam to do testing on remote machines (Mostly screen captures) but as nice as screenshots are, it’s nothing compared to my Windows and Linux testing which allows me to click around and play with the site as I intended it.

While I don’t see myself using Safari on a day-to-day basis, I’m glad to have it installed as part of my regular routine for testing code I release.

iPhone’s Killer App?

It’s only been about 3 hours since the end of the keynote, but already people are saying that by not making an SDK available for the iPhone, and relying solely on web technologies, Apple has shot themselves in the foot and killed any chance for a Killer app to be established on the iPhone. Perhaps I’m alone here… But it’s my feeling that Safari is iPhone’s killer app.

If all of the development needs to stay within Safari, and more developers (Both Mac and PC now) have access to safari for testing their sites and services on, this means that more Safari/web-based applications will be ready for the launch of the iPhone. As a web developer, I couldn’t be more excited about this. Sure, we all knew Safari would be on the phone and would be rendering pages the same as it does on it’s non-mobile brother, but now we have confirmed that all of the JS effects, features, functions and code will be there awaiting us too. Steve said we could develop today and be ready for final testing on the 29th. Why couldn’t we be ready for the 29th alongside launch.

I don’t think people will need to wait long to discover that a full-blown Safari, with all of the JS and AJAX tools we need is going to sit front and centre on the iPhone, and with Safari on OSX and Windows to speed things along, development will be more seamless across all three platforms. And that will be sweet