December 2009
17 posts
Adding Depth with Pixel Perfect Line Work →
A pixel is a single point in a raster image. Computer displays are capable of showing millions of these at a time. So how can one lone pixel have an impact on a web design? It probably can’t….
2009 is over
Goodbye 2009, you’ve been a good year.
Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way.
2009 gave me a lot of opportunities and here are a few which I managed to make the best of them:
celebrated 2 years with my honey
got a MacBook
got an iPhone
bought a practical and fun little car
visited Italy and swam in the Mediterranean again. Fabulous place to be.
visited Germany and saw...
“When things go perfectly, sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s because your...”
– 37 Signals
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The Pareto Principle →
given a considerable number of clients, 80% of revenue comes from 20% of these clients
1992 United Nations Development Program Report shows that 20% of the richest people control 80% of the world’s wealth
Microsoft also noted that by fixing the top 20% of the most reported bugs, 80% of the errors and crashes would be eliminated.
you might be able to learn 80% of a skill in 20% of the...
How to Get a Professional Look With Color →
What makes a design look coordinated, planned and professional? The answer is: ‘color’.
Not every project needs bland corporate blue to look professional. Planning color means creating a…
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Tiffany: Hey, your Mac looks like a noir movie, what gives?
John: Go to “System Preferences”, “Universal Access.” Set your display to “Use grayscale.”
Tiffany: Oh, Mister Bogart!
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Readable Code
John: When do you know your code is readable?
Tiffany: When a colleague can continue my work, without me wasting 30 minutes to explain what's going on.
John: That too, but also when your mom walks in the room and tells you that an User.cant_fly()
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Better code, better focus →
Altough this article is mainly about PHP, I try to apply these concepts to my Python code too and have been pretty succesful at it.
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“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent...”
– Rick Osborne
Avatar Is Like The iPhone Of Movies →
I’ve seen Avatar twice now, which is saying something when you’re talking about a nearly three hour movie that was released 36 hours ago. But we lined up on Thursday night for the first midnight…
stevenf:
Vowl:
Meet Vowl, a very small app that... →
stevenf:
Vowl:
Meet Vowl, a very small app that displays random tag-based Flickr slideshows while you do other things.
While the app itself may seem rather pointless (and thus not…
7 Ways to set up your Auto Tweets →
One of the most talked about controversies on Twitter. Some use it to spam while some use it to tweet while they are offline to get some sleep. Some use it just to…auto tweet. Even though it’s…
Shabda Raaj: Using bpython shell with django (and... →
What is bpython? bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating system. says the bpython home page. It provides syntax highlighting, auto completion, auto-indentation…
Cartier ID One →
This is the absolute intangible time.
I wish this principle of never having to adjust would work in software development too.
Helvetireader and Lucidica
Being a fan of good typography and efficient reading I must suggest:
http://ismaelsobek.com/lucidica/
http://helvetireader.com/
Helvetireader is a userscript that pares down Google Reader to what I consider to be the essentials. In particular, it’s made for looking at just unread feeds in the expanded view, using Keyboard Shortcuts instead of on-screen buttons. It’s not going to suit how...
Io tengo iPhone
Wait and jump at the right time !
Orange launched a promotion for this Christmas Season (and to convince people to use their online store) for the iPhone 3G, 79 EUR with a 20 EUR subscription. Surely, I wasn’t the only one who thought that this is a good deal so the stocks were empty in 2 days. The 3G isn’t shipped anymore, but the promotion runs until 31st of December so there...
November 2009
7 posts
“But the audience is right. They’re always, always right. You hear...”
– Said by William Friedkin, in a New York Times interview, but I strongly believe that this not only applies to movies, but to any product aimed for the end user.