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Balsamiq – Wireframes and mockups tool
A great tool for creating fast site and other device mock ups.
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developers christmas wishlist
Just the coffee cup and a few more and i will have the whole of the developers Christmas wish list.
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
If your going to spend 15 minutes watching a video, make sure it’s this one.
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Pecha Kucha
The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore the 20×20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slide-show of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. This results in a total…
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QCon day 4 – Kent Beck on Effective Design
Another excellent talk in which Kent provided his latest views on how he thinks problems should be solved from the design point of view. He started by following on from his keynote, pushing that we must design with people in mind; design for the skills of your availoble developers. The talk built up to five…
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It’s all about Slack
Its the new year and I’ve not posted for while, why? lack of slack, so after finishing the excellent book ‘Slack’ by Tom DeMarco, I have decided to make myself and the people around me some. The book is a must for anyone involved in running projects and it should be compulsory for anyone who…
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12 Invaluable Sites for Web Design and Design Inspiration
Found this on Digg 12 Invaluable Sites for Web Design and Design Inspiration.
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Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo Pipes enables users to aggregate existing data to create and share a data feed using a visual drag and drop interface. Its a great idea and when you’ve used it you may wonder why nobody has done it before.In fact they have, but just not on the web and in such a visual and…
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Over the last few years I had attended a few talks by Jonathan schwartz the CEO of sun, all were excellent and in reading his blog i noticed the recommendation for this book. It is an excellent read giving great insight into how the world came to have standadised (well nearly) elecricity and lighting. If…