January 2012
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December 2011
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Technical Writing
Engineers employ technical writing, which is very different from the literary writing you learn in most English classes. Consider this passage:
Helen, thy beuty is to me
Like thos Nicèan barks of yore
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
Edgar Allan Poe
To express...
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September 2009
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Attention-Worthy, Week of 2009-09-27
My weekend has been focused on EuroIA, the early European information architect conference, this year held in Copenhagen. As you’d expect, I had a great time and met a lot of cool people!
A good way to start off this week’s link mania is with some impressions from the conference. Jeroen van Geel over at Johnny Holland did a good job summarizing many of the sessions; check out day 1...
swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica →
It’s all in the details.
Henrique C. Alves - Keeping simple with Django →
Code tips of the day!
Spotify – liberation or DRM-hell? →
Interesting take - and I agree. Putting all your eggs in Spotify’s basket doesn’t feel right.
Raphaël—JavaScript Library →
Check out the demos, it looks pretty good!
What You Should Plan, Do, and Support →
I posted this comment:
Isn’t the technology adoption life cycle by its very nature misleading? Since it depicts adoption, the actual number of users is not shown.
If the “late majority” is as numerous as the “early majority,” doesn’t that make the values of the groups equal? E.g. Blogs have more visitors than social hubs at the moment, since the cumulative...
The HTML5 drag and drop disaster →
A lot of frustration and a lot of profanity - and a fun read. Still, HTML5 and its associated JavaScript APIs still have a long way to go. As evidenced by this, the HTML5 Super Friends, and others.
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google-jstemplate - Project Hosting on Google Code →
Another random release from Google - a templating system for Ajax based applications.
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Attention-Worthy, Week of 2009-09-19
I a world where micro equals better, it’s sometimes nice to focus on just one thing for an hour or two. Here is a collection of links to longer form content that I’ve found interesting over the past week.
Longest, and my favorite, is From Nand to Tetris in 12 hours. In this 2007 Google Tech Talk, Professor Shimon Schocken describes a one semester course in which students build...
“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we...”
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Paper explaining how Shazam works →
This scientific paper (though short on sources), explains how Shazam, the audio recognition service, works.
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MacBook Pro 15" vs. MacBook 13"
A new MacBook Pro 15” versus the first unibody MacBook - how big is the difference? Since I have both, I’ll try to answer this.
Both computers are the lowest end version. This means a 2GHz/2GB/160GB MacBook and a 2.53GHz/4GB/250GB MacBook Pro. I won’t be running any benchmarks, but a general speed boost is definatly noticable with the Pro. Boot and application load times are a...
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August 2009
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WatchCyanogenMod is an “Android Community Rom based on the Donut tree”. It is, to quote some more, “focused on speed, followed by functionality from the core system (eg stuff that can’t be added on easily) and then stability.”
My experience is, that going from Cupcake (a.k.a Android 1.5) to this was as big of a speed boost as going from 1.0 to Cupcake was. This video...
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Thank You, Posterous
If you’re a frequent reader of my tumblelog (which, let’s face it, you’re not) you’ll have noticed that I in fact don’t post that much. I’ll spare you the reasons for this, and instead focus on the future. In doing so, I’d like to extend a thank you to Posterous.
This super simple blogging tool is the reason why I’ve today redesigned (slightly) my...
July 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
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Watch- Huh, you’re not filming?
- (Nod) For about 2 minutes.
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The Web Has No Versions, Only People
2.0. So many blog posts have struggled to define exactly what this version number means. Content aggregation and ubiquitous access to information? Focus on social objects and social networking? Transparency and openness? Long-tail mentality and niche markets? Open source software and standards?
Whatever.
While the human urge to categorize and group information is strong, there are no versions of...
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Respect
A basic value that everyone seems to agree on is respect. How this is defined may vary from person to person, but the notion of its importance i universal (as far as humanly possible, at least). No one wants to spend time with people who constantly are being disrespectful, and to show a real lack of respect just once could put a real dent in a relationship.
Why then, do companies, services and...
March 2009
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Tumblr, simplicity and 210 lines of HTML
I’m a big fan of simplicity as a design principle. Whether it’s a website, an application or product packaging, it should fulfill its purpose in the simplest possible fashion. This means removing elements that do not support the core functionality, as well as reducing users’ mental workloads by providing a clear interface to access this functionality.
This is why I’m now...