A sad loss | clagnut/blog

A sad loss posted 17th March 2003

It seems that Glasshaus, publisher of some great web design books, has gone out of business. The rumour is that their parent company, Wrox Press, is broke, so all the publishing houses below them are gone as well.

Glasshaus weren’t around for long, but managed to capture the talents of some seriously smart people, including Owen Briggs, Eric Glish, Molly Holzschlag, Peter-Paul Koch, Matt Haughey and Steven Champeon.

Crunch: The real reason the West Pier collapsed. Nice one Bricey. More on the Glasshaus collapse. It seems that Wrox’s parent company, Peer Information, is the one to be liquidated, along with all its assets. Many ex-employees have posted their details on Graphic Design…
buy this book: ‘Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation’ has just been released. Published by Glasshaus, it is written by four seriously talented people: Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello and Matt Patterson. On this information alone I can…
Sensitive scumbag: Fabulous quote from Iggy Pop.
A new beginning: After months of preparation I’m immensely pleased to announce that Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith and I have joined forces to form Clearleft, which officially launched on Monday.
Gravatars in PHP: The great thing about publishing a blog through your own CMS is that said CMS can be hacked around and added to at will. You’ll find below a snippet of code shows how I’ve implemented my gravatars in PHP.