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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)! (;
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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/...