Links from 2007

There is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it is noted in their news stream on their profile. Clicking on the item brings you to the app, where you can add and/or interact with it yourself.

Everything you need to get started building a Facebook Application.

Field Day - Saturday 11th August 2007, Victoria Park, London

With proper PNG support in Internet Explorer 7, and some handy JavaScript and CSS tricks to account for older browsers, we can use PNG images to greatly enhance our design vocabulary.

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

Maven is a framework for managing various aspects of a project, providing its own conventions and tools to meet this end and acting as glue for making existing disparate tools work in a tractable and orderly manner.

A facilitators main task is to ensure that 'everyone goes home with a balloon' after a brainstorm - that they all feel that their pointless lives have been made somehow better by this semi cathartic experience and by the lovely little warm up games that they all played. Not to mention that they all got to vote on the most simplistic and incompetent ideas with a little stash of post it notes like some kind of mutant pin the tail on the donkey game. Facilitators like pariticipants to have a nice time more than they like delivering actionable output.

Capistrano is a standalone utility that can also integrate nicely with Rails. You simply provide Capistrano with a deployment “recipe” that describes your various servers and their roles, and voila! You magically have single-command deployment.

A free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

How [bloat] happens and what can be done about it.

A blind or a keyboard user not being able to learn about the new sports range of a certain brand is less problematic than the same user not being able to do a money transfer or apply for council benefits.

This isn't specifically about brand strategy or campaign strategy, or any other task. It's about how to go about getting a good idea for whatever you've been tasked to do.

"An open source (free) unobtrusive javascript tool for easy handling form validation." Looks ok, but shame it's Mootools and not jQuery (making it useless for us).

A fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

Been using this for a while. Much better than yousendit etc.

SoloSEO helps SEO to be easier, by managing keywords, content, and link building all in one place.

Handy for geocoding from latlong to postcode by hand.

Intended to help you create your own interactive maps using the Google API.

Successful businesses measure and count things [...] unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Create RSS feeds and get email updates for your favorite web sites

A step menu (AKA wizard menu). This menu has a varying amount of steps, dependent upon the type of user accessing the application.

"A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage." Great timing.

I need more pesshht peesshht chuttt chutt papapapa on this animation.

— The classic client quotes (originally at dreamless.org, archived at Dreamless - Best Clients Quotes - Tofslie.com)

Mark E. Smith and Mouse on Mars, together at last!

Baby - a vast parisitic cultural organism feeding off the love expounded in pop songs.

— blog.myspace.com/cursorminer

Like pixellated scraps of jazz mags…

“Yes… I pinch”.

Honda Element Gil “The Crab”

Line Rider mayhem from The Flippers.

Top-draw math-nerd rock.

“From celestial crabs descending

Pie for Maureen, round her shed”

I'm putting all my less worky stuff up here. There's a feedburner feed, too.

Baby - a vast parisitic cultural organism feeding off the love expounded in pop songs.

"Estonia started issuing electronic Identity Cards (eID) in 2002 to its citizens. Those eID’s will be OpenID’s soon!" OpenID, wooh!

If we could do it all over again, we would have definitely handled our urls and account settings using a Flickr style setup using folders.

Ze Frank discusses some techniques he learned himself to harness his creativity.

Some good points about mobile development.

Notes from O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo. The workshop was “High Performance Webpages,” a dense, three-hour session with two leads on Yahoo!’s front-end optimization team.

Probably.

One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They're like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company.

...a community effort to classify, rank, and distribute high-resolution images for use as computer wallpaper.