delicious: October 2004 Archives

popup walk through guide from BBC News

BBC project to encourage movie making, has some tutorial materials too

small changes in ID cards proposals, new compulsary separate card at 35 quid plus passport at probably the same cost

Cal Henderson's presentation on Flickr architecture, covers PHP and lots more internals

A comment from CAl Henderson's flickr presentation, interesting commentry in the comments about the trade offs of speed vs code complexity

very sad news, he inspired a lot of great music

barcode scanning software for your books and dvds etc that lets you create a disk based library of your content, looks fabulous

idea capuring and development application, kind of a mixture of omnigraffle, omnioutliner and bbedit, plus more maybe tinderbox and ispring

getting pdftohtml to compile on macosx, look for the post from 04-27-2003, 02:54 PM

I've been hunting for this ground rule for Apple development for ages -- no code updates can slow down a system component, unless the coder is able to optimize another part of the same system component to maintain the status quo or better see stingerman'

handy web safe colour viewer, can even be downloaded locally

useful list and overview of 200 odd techniques

how design can be used to help direct the worlds energies for the better, related to the long now ideas from Stewart Brand

using a single word and number to draw attention to information, with a detailed investigation of why

Some basic cognitive psychology looking at attention span and memory from 1956, essentially we can remember 7 plus or minus 2 things

Recent research paper on Synaesthesia, the reason the w3c logo is green

Charts the 5 year development from the Lisa

short notes on good and bad things to do with typographic design

reminds me of sticky steps planning techniques, take a goal and reduce it to tasks by working back from delivered result

different take on the gadget weblog

short article comparing taxonomy vs tagging

short essay pointing at the utility of tagging and some future possibilities

delightful film, beautifully shot about the summer time love story of two teenage girls in England with a darker undercurrent

short essay on how the internet is showing the market in the long tail, the niche products

Steve Jobs on Apple and product focused design, interview in business week

photos of the contents of peoples bags

Journal of Management article on the validty of the Myers-Briggs personality test

nice article hinting at the overlap between web product design and interaction design

simple strings to search your site for to see what google knows that you do not

overview of recent interviews from Bob Atkins

the heavily used films were really dirty, they used lots of macs to do the cleaning and 378TB of storage

interesting reading in terms of what people want

funny (mostly) comments from people developing websites, as said by their clients