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REWORK : Essential reading for… everyone.

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 Posted in Design, Development, Geeking Out, Op/Ed | No Comments »

Rework is one of those books; you know the ones. The kind of book that opens your mind to ideas. Changes your attitude, and brings you a clarity of thought that you have not had in a while. Jason Fried ...

Apple could learn a thing or two from Microsoft

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 Posted in Blatherings, Development, Op/Ed | Comments Off

Apple takes a lot of heat from it's developers for its processes and rules regarding iPhone application development mainly because of poor decisions, lack of communication and the simple fact that they don't embrace their developers. This is further emphasized ...

Website Killswitch – Freelancer tool or unethical tactic?

Monday, March 8th, 2010 Posted in Design, Development, Op/Ed | Comments Off

I've been making a living as a web designer now for around 8.5 years or so, and I have to say this isn't the first time that the idea of having a killswitch has crossed my path, but seeing CSS ...

Against Digital Photography

Friday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Op/Ed, Photography, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

Within the last decade, photography has seen an enormous influx of people and expansion at a rate that is very much akin to that experienced in the early 1900's when Kodak actively marketed the Brownie, making photography accessible to almost ...

Web design & the other dude’s code….

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Design, Development, Op/Ed | Comments Off

As a corporate designer part of what I do occasionally is wade through other peoples code and fix it. Not that this is my favorite thing to do mind you, but we buy 3rd party solutions as bolt-ons from time-to-time, ...