Five Reasons Why Designers Developers are Switching to Mac
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Source:Five Reasons Why Designers Developers are Switching to Mac
Archive for April, 2009
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Source:Acorn Icon Set For Free Download
Black and White Fractals That Capture Creativity
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Source:Black and White Fractals That Capture Creativity
20 Talented and Impressive Illustrators
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Source:20 Talented and Impressive Illustrators
Project Icon Set For Free Download
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Source:Project Icon Set For Free Download
Principles For Building Frameworks
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Jonathan Crossland has a list of important principles for building a framework (via Ralph Johnson). Designing a framework is a tricky business. Through it you impose certain design decisions on its users, but you have to give freedom everywhere else to use it the way they want to. Such lists help in identifying the approach […]
XML Schemas Should Be More Context Specific
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009I relived an intense past discussion while reading Uche Ogbuji’s nice introduction to XML elements and attributes design. We had discussed exactly the same issue, with the exact same examples of date and name to justify our decisions. What we ended up with was a lot different than what any of us had devised, because […]
Nate Koechley’s Talk On Front-End Engineering
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009Make sure you watch Nate Koechley’s excellent talk on Front-End Engineering (via Chris Heilmann). A lot of executives think it is only about the “Look and Feel”. I hope they will watch this and realize the underlying engineering objective.
From the transcript, Nate nicely defines front-end engineering:
Another way to think about it is that frontend […]
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Veerle’s blog goes mobile
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009The folks of Mobify contacted me a few weeks ago with the request if they could create a mobile version of my blog. A mobile version of the blog is one of those things that got moved from my ‘to-do’ list to the ‘one day’ list. This request sounded like music to my ears, and […]
Completing The Development Environment
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009This is one of a series of blog posts about my experience competing in the European WinPHP Challenge 2009. Sponsored by iBuildings, Microsoft and Leaseweb, competitors are asked to build a PHP app for Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 to showcase the FAST in FastCGI. The winner gets travel and tickets to Microsoft MIX […]