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QCon day 4 – Kent Beck on Effective Design

March 13, 2008

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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QCon day 4 – User interfaces meet the challenge of simplicity

March 13, 2008

A simple journey to put across some guidelines to aid in designing user interfaces. The talk lacked a bit of depth for me, in that some of the observations felt a little personal rather than having much evidence to back them up. It was what i needed though to allow me to think about the [...]

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QCon day 3 – keeping 99.95% uptime

March 12, 2008

I found the speaker a little monotone, but the content of the talk was very interesting. It provided a very clear view of how Merrel Lynch deals with the billions of daily messages, produced by there systems globally. The break down of message precedence and the aim of automated fixing of an issue within an [...]

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QCon day 2 – The Zen of Agile Management

March 11, 2008

I was not quite sure what to pick today, after almost going for Java Performance i opted for the Agile route. The session was not quite what i expected from the title or excerpt, but still very enjoyable. David Anderson came at agile almost from the standpoint of standard problem software projects. He looked at [...]

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Option key on a mac

February 19, 2008

I had to empty a locked item in the trash and needed to hold the option key, nobody seemed to know it was the alt key on a mac, except one designer and wikipedia.

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Qik – Streaming video from your mobile

February 6, 2008

A new service from Qik provides you with the ability to stream video to the web from your mobile phone. It currently works on most Nokia phones and has been used to good effect by Robert Scoble at Davos and Mac World.  This obvious, but well implemented solution is a great extension to video just [...]

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It’s all about Slack

January 12, 2008

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

November 22, 2007

Found this on Digg 12 Invaluable Sites for Web Design and Design Inspiration.

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