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John Cleese on Creativity

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:57:13 +0200

PHP: a fractal of bad design

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:48 +0200

I’ve been in PHP arguments a lot. I hear a lot of very generic counter-arguments that are really only designed to halt the conversation immediately.

If this sounds familiar, make the people you are in an argument with read this article. It’s a very extensive objective article about what’s wrong with PHP. A must read.

Screenshots of Despair

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:11:38 +0200

Screenshots of Despair

The Personal Analytics of Stephen Wolfram's Life

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:57:16 +0100

The Personal Analytics of Stephen Wolfram's Life

Madrid’s Sol subway station temporarily renamed “Sol Galaxy Note”

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:32:54 +0100

Madrid’s Sol subway station temporarily renamed “Sol Galaxy Note” :

If you have to resort to these kind of marketing tactics your device probably isn’t really good.

“The Browser You Loved To Hate”

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:26:53 +0100

“The Browser You Loved To Hate”

Open Source is a privilege. Not a right.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:44:17 +0100

Open Source is a privilege. Not a right.:

Very insightful article by Ariejan de Vroom

Responsive web design: missing the point

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:52:36 +0100

Responsive web design: missing the point:

The point of creating adaptive sites is to create functional (and hopefully optimal) user experiences for a growing number of web-enabled devices and contexts. It’s not because it’s “the right thing to do”. It’s not because it’s fun. It’s not because it’s trendy. It’s not so you can impress your boss by resizing a browser window.

Great article by Brad Frost.

"Like any self-respecting UI designer, I have a cheap digital microscope sitting on my desk"

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:21:52 +0100

"Like any self-respecting UI designer, I have a cheap digital microscope sitting on my desk"

Scala Macros: “Oh God Why?”

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:08:40 +0100

Scala Macros: “Oh God Why?”:

Interesting read.

Sparrow for iPhone is finally here. I’ve beta tested it...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:25:24 +0100

Sparrow for iPhone is finally here. I’ve beta tested it for a while an it’s awesome. The cards navigation is a joy the use and highly intuitive. You can get it here for only € 2,39.

"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it...."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:57:15 +0100

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

South Park in CSS3

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:35:05 +0100

South Park in CSS3:

This is great! Not a single image on the entire site.

maniacalrage: At least Amazon’s developers have the balls to...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:53:21 +0100

maniacalrage:

At least Amazon’s developers have the balls to call it what it is.

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:31:56 +0100

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think

Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:42:30 +0200

Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late:

So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.

Best press release ever.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:57:53 +0200

Best press release ever.

MicroJS

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:19:23 +0200

MicroJS:

Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries in JS.

Unobtrusive Ruby

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:33:14 +0200

Unobtrusive Ruby:

Thoughtbot:

Unobtrusive Ruby is any Ruby code that stays out of your way. It does not make you write lots of boilerplate, or stub methods, or open classes. It is decoupled. Its tests run quickly, its classes fit on one screen, its methods are tiny, and it is quickly refactorable.

LeapFrog releases a PlayBook competitor

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:54:07 +0200

LeapFrog releases a PlayBook competitor