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we write everything in lowercase to save time and besides, why two alphabets where one will do? why use capital letters if we don’t use them when we speak?
- bauhaus director’s letterhead, 1925
Tags: bauhaus, quotes, typography
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Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
—Popular Mechanics, 1949
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Google Buzz. Google’s Twitter killer. The great thing about Twitter, as with many web apps is that to opt in, you sign up. Not so with Buzz — a fact that has not been lost on the blogosphere.
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People want things that work. While of course this seems like common sense — three recent developments have brought this back to my attention:
Tags: apple, ipad, usability, ux
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John Fort, in an article at Fortune, mentions a demographic that not many have considered as an important iPad demographic: comics fans. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: apple, comics, ipad
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Today the NYT reported that the U.S. government conducted a computer-based attack war game. The results were dismal.
Tags: google, government, war
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The following are my thoughts relating to Josh Porter’s 52 weeks of UX post regarding sketching user experiences.
Tags: joshua porter, quotes, usability, ux
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After a vulnerability in Internet Explorer was exploited to wreak havoc on the servers of Google and a number of other businesses, the German government has come forward and said something that I’m sure fills web developers with glee: stop using ALL VERSIONS of internet explorer.
Tags: ie, ie6, internet explorer, microsoft, standards
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I’ve been really busy these past few months and I’m finally getting around to updating the portfolio section of the site. As of this second, the web section of my portfolio has been overhauled graphically, and included new material. Take a look at the front page in the web section.
Besides that I’m working on a rails app that I’m really excited to finish and launch.
Finally, Haiti needs all of our help. It’s the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Especially saddening because it’s one of the first countries to emancipate itself from tyranny in the New World and has had little to share for it. Please consider donating to help the earthquake relief efforts. Here’s a link to Oxfam.
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There have been times in an application where I may want to do something if a record or an output has or starts with a particular number of letters. Before I would write a regular expression to do this.
Tags: rails, ruby, shortcuts, tips
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