Media
A Good Way to Catalog Movies?
Why is so difficult to find a good, feature rich way to catalog movies? It seems like there are two camps applications focus on — either ownership or viewership, but few applications do both well. On one side there are applications like Delicious Library that allow you to scan in barcodes with a webcam (very [...]
Interview with Dan Cederholm of Simplebits
Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits has for a long time been one of the designers I’ve most respected. His code is extremely clean, self documenting and the results come out Bulletproof. His book is probably the best CSS reference I have seen, and changed my outlook on what CSS design should be. Brian Oberkirch has an [...]
Google Campus Videos
If you’re interested in watching some very interesting presentations on a variety of subjects, check out the engEDU videos on Google Video. These are speakers who were sponsored to come to Google and speak about what they know best. There are a lot of experts in their fields, such as one on Mondrian by [...]
Aardvark’d - 12 Weeks with Geeks
What do Aardvark’s have to do with technology? Well that’s a question you’d have to ask Joel Spolsky, but it’s the codename for summer internship project from 2005 at Fogcreek.com where a team of college interns create a real world project from start to finish. What’s a little different about this internship is that it [...]
A Brief Break with FFXII
There aren’t many video games I follow now a days. Actually it’s down to just Halo and Final Fantasy. You can blame the later for the recent lack of posts. Final Fantasy XII came out this past Halloween, a game I had been waiting for for years. The Final Fantasy series all has excellent [...]
Snakes and Rubies presentations online
I spent a few hours at work today listening to the Snakes and Rubies presentation from the recent python/ruby convention. I have to say, the creator of rails has quite a great sense of humor! Rails appears to really be taking off too. Anyways, enough Rails evangelism.
