Avalonstar

This is the story of a guy and a theme. It’s been quite a while since said guy worked on a theme for a certain blogging system. But a few guys approached him to create a theme suited for the business world. Challenged and renewed, said guy “presses” on...

This is the story of a guy and a shortcut key. Said shortcut key is supposed to be used for accessibility, but sometimes said guy actually likes working with the mode on. If you don’t easily get motion sick, take a look if you’re not keen on trying it yourself...

This is the story of a guy and motivation. It’s hard for him to find any outside of working (and a good number of times while working)...

This is the story of a guy and and the new year. The new year is treating said guy well, but he’d thought he’d take some time to give you some of his predictions on what the coming year might look like for design. Oh, and here take this sarcasm pill before you read it. I don’t have any...

This is the story of a guy. A guy whose last 365 days could be equated to riding X for the first time at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It’s been hard, it’s been crazy and somehow it’s been fun. Now with 2009 around the corner, said guy can’t wait to see what’s in store...

This is the story of a guy and a tradition. Every year since 2004, said guy has released a few files from that year’s Photoshop archives for people to learn from. As 2008 starts coming to a close, it’s that time again to once again (albeit a little early) release an archive...

This is the story of a guy and a company. A month ago, (wow, really?) he announced the coming acquisition of his company. Since he thought it would be quite useless to open up a new blog for said company, he decided to write about things here...

This is the story of a guy, his company and a dream. Since its inception, said guy’s company has always steered towards a path that would make dreams come true. Today’s dream was to be able to work on his own products. Today’s dream has come true...

This is the story of a guy and the future president of the United States. While said guy is completely elated that his candidate for president has won, he can’t help but feel some emptiness at the fact that the campaign is now over. Said guy bids goodbye to one of his favorite identities, ever...

This is the story of a guy and his past. Way back when, even before Avalonstar, he was a webmaster for the FBLA on the chapter and regional level...

This is the story of a guy and his blog. Said blog turned eight a few days ago and said guy completely forgot. Well, this is making up for it, since said guy couldn’t just sit around and not write some odd thoughts about the event...

This is the story of a guy and a framework. Lots of things have been happening around said framework. One in particular is a new design for the three year old admin application. This is hopefully the first of many quick walkthroughs through design-related Django pluggables...

This is the story of a guy and a spec. The spec is something we’ve all been looking forward to, maybe, for a long time now. But a “long time” doesn’t even hold a candle to the “long time” we’ll be waiting for said spec to actually come out...

This is the story about a guy and his psyche. Well, not really. While he has a lot of respect for what he calls, the “super blog,” he also is starting to feel his motivation “smashed” by the speed and power of said blogs...

This is the story of a guy and a conference. At said conference, he saw a keynote by some guy at Flickr. The keynote was about how Django sucked. But one thing caught said guy’s eye, the fact that Django needed a mascot. Read on to experience the ensuing pony-fest...

This is the story of a guy and a large company. It seems whenever this company puts out products, said guy has to poke at least some fun at them. But come on, you know they ask for it. Maybe you’ll see what he sees in this one...

This is the story of a guy and a part of his career. After hearing a talk by an up-and-coming freelancer about a “series of successful failures,” he comes to terms with the fact that his freelancing phase was less than successful...

This is the story of a guy and a client. Yea, he knows he said he wasn’t going to take anymore, but there was something about this group in Park City, UT that made him change his mind. The redesign of Addictionary and some insights into the process are discussed...

This is the story of a guy and his process. He rehashes his process and begins to learn a little about how he uses applications or how applications grab hold of him. He later discovers that the mobile platform is a great way for him to actually “get” the whole GTD thing...

This is the story of a guy and a device. You probably know what the said device is, hell, you probably have it. Well, this is the story, in pictures, of his 8 hour wait to get one. It’s definitely not five days, but it was definitely interesting. Well, we all know what happened on yesterday...

This is the story of a guy and a project. In that project he’s run into the widget. He’s never really had to accommodate distributable embed-able widgets so he needs a little help to understand them. Widgets. I’ve never really gotten them...

This is the story of a guy and his process. His process? Well, while there isn’t much of one, it’s really hard for things to become part of the process. As a little break from Revyver week, he’s wondering how you’re able to...

This is the story of a guy and his company. After taking the level of seriousness to an all time high, he felt it was time to lighten up the mood a little bit and announce what he’s been meaning to all week. Might not be that special, but it could very well help a lot of people...

This is the story of a guy and the history of his company. While noticing that he never really explained the background behind the company, he decided to take care of that as well as talk about the change from one dream to another...

This is the story of a guy and his little company. Said guy only realized last week that the company was turning two years old, so he got off his ass and got some things ready to help celebrate the occasion. This is just a heads up. :) Two years ago...

This is the story of a guy and a game series. The series turned 20 last December and it seems that said guy just got with the picture...

This is the story of a guy and his friend. Said friend shows off a product to the guy that he initially doesn’t want to buy and then buys out of peer pressure. This contains a series of videos demonstrating how the former drafter wannabe uses Behance’s Dot Grid Book...

This is the story of a guy looking back into his past, where he used to be his high school’s meteorologist. It’s a short and disjointed story with video footage of an 18-year-old version of said guy, which isn’t that much different from the present day version...

This is the story of a guy and a broom. One’s virtual, and he hopes to use that to sweep up some of the messes he’s left behind over the past few weeks...

This is the story about a guy and confidence. Said guy lacks said confidence so he tries to go about ways to circumvent it. Honestly the post doesn’t make that much sense, but there’s no use in telling you the ending in the summary. Confidence. I lack it...

This is the story of a guy and his company’s first application, Django Plugables. Well, actually it’s more of a utility but that’s besides the point. Said guy takes you on an overview of what went into the creation of said application...

This is the story of a guy and his brain. While sitting in bed one early Sunday morning, a geeky thought strikes him. He wonders what properties or attributes designers would pick if they could have one implemented from HTML5 or CSS3 today...