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  • WRITING AND VARIOUS OTHER ITEMS ON TECH, GAMES, DEVELOPMENT AND THE INTERNETS


  • Trillions
  • 10.Nov - Michael Buckbee
  • I came across this great video today that’s trying to help people wrap their minds around what ubiquitous computing means:

    Trillions from MAYAnMAYA on Vimeo.

    This is a short film (a fast paced preview of a larger effort) by MAYA Design created to put some perspective on the invisible but fast approaching challenges and opportunities in the [...]

  • What Color is that H1
  • 23.Oct - Michael Buckbee
  • I came across an incredibly poorly worded question on StackOverflow where the person asked How to Manipulate the DOM with Ruby on Rails. After some back and forth it turns out that he’s not asking how to use RJS or even how parse a page with Hpricot or Nokogiri, but instead was asking for a [...]

  • How to Take Screenshots on Mobile Phones
  • 17.Jun - Michael Buckbee
  • I’ve recently been digging back into doing mobile web development for The Social Collective and had a user send me a picture (taken with his webcam) of the browser on his Blackberry. It was basically a brightly colored smudge.
    Luckily, the bug he was informing me of was sufficiently bone-headed on my part that I [...]

  • Running an OpenSource Project – Sean Cribbs
  • 24.Oct - Michael Buckbee
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  • Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp.
    Some things really stuck out to me:
    1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted.
    2. [...]

  • How 37 Signals Deploys Their Software
  • 22.Oct - Michael Buckbee
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  • I had a great time last Saturday at Raleigh Ruby Camp and met a host of Ruby on Rails developers working on interesting things.
    One of the discussions that occurred was lead by Mark Imbracio of 37 Signals. I’ve posted the audio below and have linked to some of the topics that came up in [...]

  • Design SHOTS

  • SCREENSHOTS AND COMMENTS ON APP DESIGN


    Living Root Bridges

    Living Root Bridges

    Incredible 500 year old bridges grown from the roots of trees.

    "The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves."

    rootbridges.blogspot.com/


    Ball Valve Cholorine Doser

    Ball Valve Cholorine Doser

    Ingenious device (with video) shown on AfriGadget today: a mechanism that cost $3, has no moving parts and can purify 100,000 liters of water.

    feedproxy.google.com/~r/Afrigadget/~3/HJkdPO1yhqM/


    Eden Soto - Motion Designer

    Eden Soto - Motion Designer

    Eden Soto turns out amazing video intros and bumpers for tons of different clients. What's most impressive to me is that each project has a very distinct look and feel to it, that still works within the overall style of the works.

    My Personal Favorite (Co-Op Intro)
    www.vimeo.com/3545647

    More Work
    www.vimeo.com/edensoto/videos/sort:newest


    Web Site
    www.edensoto.com


    Leica Camera Customizer

    Leica Camera Customizer

    Leica, the classic high end camera maker, is stepping into the world of mass customization.

    Their a la carte ordering system has around 4,000 different configurations.

    www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/leica_brings_camera_cu...


    Web Of Seinfeld

    Web Of Seinfeld

    Simple, but very clean and clear graph of the different relationships of the Seinfeld show.

    Click for Full Size Version


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