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“We’re all under pressure and obviously since I was promoted I paid attention to the things that mattered.” Well, if the claims of the former colleague are true, it doesn’t sound like that’s the case…
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How I’ve not seen has_finder before I don’t know. Looks very handy, and nice and succinct, too.
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“Pulse is a web-based cash flow management tool that allows you to easily monitor the heartbeat of your small business – your cash.” Has Basecamp integration, too.
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Lots of interesting numbers here…
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Exhaust data is, I think, a clear case of “phatic communication.” This is communication with little hard, informational content, but lots of emotional and social content. [It] doesn’t get much said, but it has social effects so powerful, it gets lots done
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“The main thing you don’t learn with a CS degree is how to develop software, although you will probably build up certain muscles in your brain that may help you later if you decide that developing software is what you want to do.”
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“in the ‘sentences we never thought we’d be writing at the start of the campaign” category comes “Make the Japanese Fisheries Agency promise not to harpoon Mister Splashy Pants.” Very thoughtful responses from Greenpeace.
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SlideShowPro is now available for Lightroom. Looks very impressive, especially at the level of its integration.
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‘Apparently, Mailer built “a vast Lego city, incorporating some 15,000 pieces, known as the city of the future, seeming to take as much pride in it as in any of his other creations.”’
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“From where I stand, the only sane response is to keep our conceptions of friendship and affinity from being polluted by technical metaphors and constraints to begin with.” Superb post by Adam Greenfield. Makes me question a lot of my recent design.
Alan Kay’s definition of literacy
20 December 2007
Adam Greenfield recently mentioned this:
“The ability to ‘read’ a medium means you can access materials and tools created by others. The ability to ‘write’ in a medium means you can generate materials and tools for others. You must have both to be literate.”
That neatly taps into a lot of what I’m thinking about (and failing to write about here) at the moment. Things like this, and mixing your own paint, and programming-as-act-in-its-own-right versus programming-as-necessary-evil, and a whole host of other questions (such as what it is I actually do).
Things are slowly coalescing. This quotation coalesced a great deal, and deserved more than a mere del.icio.us link…
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“I’ve been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I’ve been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here’s a first attempt at defining that.” Evan Williams on product.
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“We started when we were children – we met at school. We started writing enjoy eternal bliss when we were around 17 years old, and finished it when we had just turned 20.” Yndi Halda’s “Enjoy Eternal Bliss” is, frankly, stunning.
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Nice looking site for perhaps the more grown-up gamer looking to connect and share with others; the focus on sharing the spaces you play in is a really interesting touch. Can’t wait to try this.
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An explanation of #rescue_from, which was added in Rails 2.0, and is a really rather lovely way of handling all kinds of custom exception and making them not suck.
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“…this feature is one of the few nicest features in Rails made by a contributor outside of the Rails core so I couldn’t resist mentioning it.” More on #rescue_from, with some nice use cases.
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“Strictly limited edition 4Gb USB stick, shaped in Radiohead’s iconic “bear” image and housed in a bespoke deluxe box.” Full .WAV files and some natty packaging, to boot.
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“Sanskrit is a rich-text editor that outputs Textile instead of XHTML.” Also has nicely unstyled ‘button’ controls, making it easy to custoise the UI.
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“God’s Eye View portrays four key Biblical events as if captured by Google Earth.” Striking, jarring; curiously impersonal. Parting of the Red Sea is, to my mind, the best.
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Dan Hill: “The Well-Tempered Personal Environment” Dan’s talk from Interesting South. Something to watch when I have a bit more time; it looks like a wonderful concept.
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“There’s always the feeling that you’re not seen as either a real programmer or a real scientist; you kind of fall between two stools.” Some great thoughts from Andrew on the problems you get when people aren’t interested in mixing paint.
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“There are a lot of similarities between design and advertising, notably the treatment of real market feedback and the opinion of the client, and I think this book nails when and how to do proper user research.”