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


  • 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 [...]

  • User Augmented Reality Interface
  • 21.Oct - Michael Buckbee
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  • While the title of this post may sound like I just strung four random words together, they actually accurately describe the following video that depicts what augmented reality interfaces might look like.
    For the time being, I think we’re still going to do more with iPhones than holographically projected images, but videos and other speculative [...]

  • How To Batch Convert Photos for Free with OS X
  • 13.Oct - Michael Buckbee
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  • Many people don’t realize that every copy of OS X ships with a robotic personal assistant: Automator.
    Automator is a drag and drop tool that allows you to quickly throw together time saving mini applications.
    Something many people need to do is to repeatedly convert photos from one size or format to another, and while it’s [...]

  • How to Run Windows on OS X for free with Sun’s Virtualbox
  • 30.Sep - Michael Buckbee
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  • VMWare Fusion and Parallels have been the two dominant OS X virtualization methods for running Windows (or Linux) inside of OS X.

    While both are great applications, they each cost around $80 US.

    Recently, Sun Microsystems (makers of Solaris, big purple servers and pony tailed CEO’s) have unleashed a new virtualization product on the world: VirtualBox, and [...]

  • Design SHOTS

  • SCREENSHOTS AND COMMENTS ON APP DESIGN


    Burning the Days Calendar

    Burning the Days Calendar

    Interesting calendar design: each day is a match that you pull out and burn.

    Burning Days Calendar


    Wordpress 2.7 Icons

    Wordpress 2.7 Icons

    Wordpress (the ubuiqitous blog software) recently ran a contest for a new icon set in the upcoming WordPress 2.7 release.

    The winning set is "BD". My personal favorite is the plugins icon; incredibly expressive for being 15px across and shades of gray.

    Project Icon Winner


    Oblong - Minority Report UI

    Oblong - Minority Report UI

    If you've seen Minority Report (the classic Tom Cruise movie where he gets his eyes examined by a robotic cd player), then you've pretty much already seen this video -- right down to the color palette of the images they're working with.

    A more interesting question is whether or not this is a truly useful system. My personal gripe about Minority Report UI's is not the standard "most people's arms would fall off if forced to wave them wildly around all day just to copy and paste", but rather that the system as designed can't have any haptic feedback. On that basis even things like MS's Table Computer may be better.

    Oblong Computer Video

    Microsoft's Big Ass Table


    Wacky Icon Ad for "Degrees"

    Wacky Icon Ad for "Degrees"

    I found this banner ad on Digg, it's trying to lure people into the high stakes world of creating icons in MS Paint.

    My personal favorites are the use of the exact same icon (the restroom people removing the woman's head for Social Worker, Counsellor and Psychologist) - maybe there is some subtle commentary they are going for, it's not very clear.

    Also, the Graphic Designer badge of multi-colored tears of shame is something wonderous.


    jQuery TimePicker

    jQuery TimePicker

    Very clever (and quick) input mechanism for time selction, built upon the jQuery framework.

    [via Ajaxian]


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