June 2009
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“haute couture”
– The paradox of the middle of the market (via feedly)
99 Amazing Widescreen Wallpapers To Spice Up Your... →
15 Roles Every Startup Needs Filled →
“That we had to wait two years for the iPhone’s text selection and pasteboard is...”
– Daring Fireball: Copy and Paste
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you...”
– How Facebook Could Create a Revolution, Do Good, and Make Billions (Mahatma Gandhi)
“The problem today is not just that complex issues are made too simple, but...”
– Hivelogic - Simplistic vs. Simplicity
Top 50 Ruby on Rails Websites →
Some surprises - Yellowpages, Hulu, Funny or Die, A List Apart, Jobster…
Build an Insanely Great Web Service →
Six Milestones from 30 Seconds to 3 Years
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is just putting on its...”
– Twitter: The Fastest Way to Get Informed. Or Misinformed. | Technologizer
Let's make the web faster →
Good advice from Google
“Forgive me for the analogy I am about to make—but if you’ve seen the...”
– Why We Need Steve Jobs | Print Article | Newsweek.com
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Date-Night
Last week @bjornlee forwarded me an article about managing to maintain both work and your personal life. One of the pieces of advice was:
Have a Date-Night. We tried hard to set aside one evening a week when just the two of us went out to dinner and/or a movie.
I couldn’t agree more with this point. It’s been a while since Ju and I had “Date-Night” (thats exactly what...
Customers given too many choices are 10x less... →
3 - 6 options key.
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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur « Steve Blank →
How to be an entrepreneur but still have a family: Steve Blank on how he made it work. It takes discipline but here’s a shining example of how it can be done.
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Old School Posters
Does anyone know the name of the series of these posters?
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Google Hackathon 2009
Attended the Hackathon held at the Singapore Management University (Admin Building) on Tuesday 16th June. Must admit they have a nice campus and that whoever is doing their marketing is pretty good. Like their print ads hanging around.
@pamelafox (lady in picture) was by far the most interesting Google presenter. The French dude was pretty good too. They mostly covered the maps API and also...
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“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”
– Wendell Johnson
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“Go fill out and lock in your name, company name, and group names in every social...”
– The Five P’s of Social Media—Where Do You Start? | The Ten Commandments Of Social Media | Fast Company
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Good industrial design
Was waiting for Ju at her office a couple days ago and took some pics.
Really enjoying driving my Honda these days. Its only a 1.3L so at high speeds you really can feel the lack of power, but I console myself that its practical, its got good fuel consumption.
My opinion is that owning a car goes way beyond all that, at least for Singaporeans like me. It really is a feeling of helplessness, of...
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Interview | An Audience With Dr Seet: Episode 2:... →
Received Episode 2 from Colin from nustudios last night. Kudos to them for the great work. Loretta was larger than life during the filming.
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Syncing Culture Code's Things with multiple macs
Just started using this great piece of software after I read they won the Apple Design Awards 2009. I think I’ve read a review about it before sometime back as I found the icon unmistakable.
Before this I have been using Remember The Milk (RTM), but in recent times I’ve not used it much, went back to the good old pen and paper. RTM is awesome because its in the cloud and there are...
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20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer... →
looks like a good set of tools here…
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Things - task management on the Mac →
Extremely pretty and well designed piece of software. User experience is also excellent. Encourages you to use it more cause it looks so pretty!
I just wish it it would sync with Google Calendar Tasks or Remember the Milk
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Word of advice for software engineers
When the Internet was first booming, all you had to do was spend some time learning HTML and you could get a job and earn some pretty good money. When things turned down, however, it rapidly becomes clear that there is a hierarchy of desirable skills, and the HTML programmers (like the laborers and sheet rockers) go first, while the highly-skilled code smiths and carpenters are retained. What...
Know the Answers to These Questions Before Your... →
You can never be too prepared when it comes to job interviews.
50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design →
Another keeper :)
Microsoft SuperPreview: a New Way to Test Web... →
Icarumba! Finally a better way to test multiple versions of IE on the same machine.
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10 properties that were impossible to implement in... →
Good solutions for Rounded Corners, PNG transparency, Opacity, Min Width/Height. Will try them out.
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The Impending Demise of the University?
Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge sweeney both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people.
Meanwhile on campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi of the University — the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there is a widening...
A Disturbance in the Force
Had a good meeting with @bjornlee today. Very excited about where this discussion will lead. Great change is upon us. Why are the newspaper companies closing down? Everyday there is a new article arguing the importance of the newspaper industry or how life without it would be. The newspaper industry needs to change or it faces extinction. Network Television and Radio though less threatened need to...
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Talisman of Independence
It is both my source of freedom and my prison. What an oxymoron.
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Does the mouse tracking on a Mac feel strange to... →
The mouse tracking on a Mac feels quite different from that of Windows because it does not accelerate. This can be partly alleviated by turning the tracking speed all the way up. But if you really pine for that Windows feel, you can try SteerMouse, albeit for $20.
Finally my mouse feels so much better!!!
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AquaPath →
This might come in useful one day. I’ve had to do XPath before… its ugly.
“What was going through the designer’s mind? “I’ll scale it a little bit. Hmmm,...”
– Brand New: Bing sets New Record in Horizontal Scaling
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Epic Vom Bom →
Ahah, perfect bomb technique — puking to the side of your date and inbetween the seats! True classic. That woman has got it pretty bad but all I can think about is the two guys behind with their mouths open..
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“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
– Topless Robot - Pop Culture’s 10 Greatest Nerds
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Facebook Connect: First Thoughts.
Today I spent a good part of the day digesting the somewhat haphazard documentation for Facebook Connect. The application is to be based on ASP.Net, so I’m using Monorail with ActiveRecord as the object-relational mapping (ORM) layer.
There are a few ways to go about using Facebook Connect:
Client-side
Just using XFMBL and javascript, basically special Facebook markup tags and AJAX to...
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This might just be the cutest little girl in the...
Her cuteness is directly proportionate to her cheekiness.
“.dp50 {width:50%; float:left; display: inline; *margin-right:-1px; }”
– Carrer Blog: 1 line CSS Grid Framework
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“It is very common to find a clueless pair of web developer and client working...”
– Why Some Web Developers Are So Cheap | Figo Mago