Blog posts

Things software development teams should know about design

I wrote a quick, unpolished list of things that development teams should know about design (and designers). It’s worth sharing with a larger audience, so here it is: programmers and managers need to fully embrace design — without “buy-in”, designing is futile (as it’ll never get implemented properly — or,...

GUADEC 2014 Map

Want a custom map for GUADEC 2014?Here’s a map I made that shows the venue, the suggested hotels, transit ports (airport/train station), vegetarian & veggie-friendly restaurants, and a few sights that look interesting.I made this with Google Map Engine, exported to KML, and also changed to GeoJSON and GPX. Original...

New photos: plants, animals, shadows, and sculptures

I’ve started snapping and posting photos again. With the exception of the zoo photos from last year, most of these are from the recent months. A few are even from the past week or two. You can view larger versions by clicking on each photo or by visiting my photo...

Tux update: black and white vector line-art

Many months ago, I released a high-quality vector version of Tux that I made in Inkscape as SVG and PNG. Somewhat recently, I needed to make a black and white version for a project. You can get both the color and black and white versions in both SVG and high-res...

Giving feedback

Lucas Rocha shared Seth Godin‘s blog post “the worst feedback is indifference” on Google+, and I posted a reply.In the interest of openness and distribution (and actually posting content on my blog), here’s my response:I was on a call the other day where someone told me that they wouldn’t ever...

New job!

I have recently left Novell / SUSE, after working at the company for eight years.Today is my first day at Red Hat!

Adwaita for Firefox, the GNOME 3.x integration theme, updated!

Today, I updated the Adwaita Firefox theme (the theme to make Firefox look like a GNOME 3 app). There’s a stable version for Firefox 10 (which is old as of yesterday), 11 (the new Stable), and Aurora (which will become 12).For you bleeding edge types, there’s a Nightly version, which...

Desktop Summit 2011, Berlin

I’ll be at the Desktop Summit and I’m looking forward to seeing you all there! Let’s all go out for a beer and talk design (and other stuff too, of course)!  (;

Desktop Summit ad-hoc tips

For those attending the Desktop Summit in Berlin, you may want to go head and set up tools like bananajour, SparkleShare, and etherpad-lite now on your laptops to be able ad-hoc develop & share files regardless of network quality.https://github.com/toolmantim/bananajour Locally-ran web based tool for sharing git repos over bonjour (w/...