yongfook: Design is Horseshit! -
In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic
I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design in all forms - copywriting in particular fascinates me. I’ve never called myself a designer.
Here’s my pitch. This…
Map for the Game of Thrones
(via Study a Painstakingly Detailed Game of Thrones Map — Vulture)
“I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” — https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1109.html#5 (via skoop)
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling
Intents, closing oldActivities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.
So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.
Getting refunds on open-source projects
Clients From Hell: Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy. Me: I... -
Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy.
Me: I don’t think it’s going to get more punchy than ‘We Buy Gold’.
Client: I want more with less!
Me: ‘Sell Gold’
Client: No, I absolutely hate that. The last one was better, just make it punchy. I want it to pop off the…
Me: Would you like to have the meeting at 3 PM today or tomorrow morning?
Client: Yes.
So you’re MAD about something on the Internet
(via Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » So you’re MAD about something on the Internet…)
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Agavi: Agavi 1.0.6 RC1 released! -
We’re happy to announce that the first release candidate for version 1.0.6 is now available for download at agavi.org and through the PEAR channel.
This release adds a database adapter for Doctrine 2, a renderer for the Twig template engine, a native session storage for ext/sqlsrv and various…
