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“Looks Good, Works Well”

Last night, I was lucky enough to see Bill Scott (of Yahoo Design Pattern Library, YUI, OpenRico, Netflix fame) present at my local Ruby user group.  He shared his thoughts about the successful design patterns that have defined today’s web.  As someone who enjoys brilliantly designed “things” including web apps and sites, I found his [...]

Posted 19 November 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

While we’re talking about design…

I’m a code geek that likes to tinker with design and illustration.  My weapon of choice is Xara Xtreme.  Most people in this arena choose Adobe Illustrator, but Xara works for me.  It’s also faster, easier to use, lighter and cheaper.  The only drawback is that it’s Windoze-ware only.  Actually, there is a Linux version [...]

Posted 01 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Vi Rules!

… and you know it.  I’m sure we have enough geeky readers here that know what I’m talking about.  For those that don’t (you suck) — Vi, simply put, is the best damn text editor ever created.
A couple of weeks ago a poll was started on OraTweet regarding Vi vs. Emacs:

How could there even be [...]

Posted 01 October 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

AppsLab Stickers!!!

Another last minute update… at 10:56am PDT today, Jake suggested we get stickers for next week.  I thought it was a fabulous idea.  So, I immediately went to work at creating a sticker design.  In a few minutes I cranked this out:
AppsLab sticker v1
This design was set at 1″ x 2.5″ — a perfect size [...]

Posted 19 September 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

delicious blog ” Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen

Posted 01 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

delicious blog ” Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here

The best and most effective redesign I've ever seen

Posted 01 August 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective

Instead of adding a comment to Jake’s post on his Ubuntu experience to-date, I thought I’d just blog my perspective.
Here’s my backstory with Apple, MSFT, Linux, and others:

Mid to late 80s: Timex Sinclair 1000… loved writing programs on cassette tapes!  How many of you Web 2.0 kiddies can say that?
Early to mid 90s: had an [...]

Posted 30 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Ruby on Rails and BEA AquaLogic

About 40 minutes ago, Chris Bucchere posted a OpenWorld session proposal on Mix. His session is called “Building Web 2.0 Social Applications in Ruby on Rails using BEA AquaLogic Interaction.” The session will also cover optimizing your application for the iPhone (or iPod Touch). Anyone who is interested in Ruby on Rails [...]

Posted 12 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

CommunityOne 2008

Those of you looking to beat the Monday blues (this coming Monday) should come out to CommunityOne 2008 in San Francisco. I’ll be part of the Ruby panel that’s being chaired by Tim Bray. Should be a good event. Best part… IT’S FREE!!!
The Ruby panel I’m on will be joined by Mark [...]

Posted 01 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OpenSocial’izing Our Apps

Now that Jake has exposed our next venture, I thought I’d flesh out some more details on what we hope to accomplish by building our own OpenSocial container.  When OpenSocial came out, it all took us AppsLab’ers by surprise that Oracle was a founding member.  It wasn’t really a surprise that Google was building something [...]

Posted 17 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °