Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Nice PHP article from the Masters

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

It's a nice read and I love that there are outright conflicting viewpoints on the use of frameworks. Ultimately, you have to do what is best for you but this is a good article from people who know what they are doing and their insight is invaluable whether you agree ...

Chrome is here but the best part

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Is that Scott McCloud wrote and illustrated a really fun introductory comic book.

This could be useful at some point

Monday, August 25th, 2008

A nice photoshop template for iPhone mockups. With more and more services being geared toward mobile platforms this could be very useful soon.

Textual visualization

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I am a huge fan of data visualization. Here is a nice overview of some interesting textual visualization techniques. Other than tag clouds this rather new to me. Personally, I find this literary organism maps rather aesthetically interesting.

Great example of org design

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Leave it to the people at Walt Disney to be pioneers in information design. Here is a Disney org chart from 1943. It captures both teams and process. It's a very sophisticated bit of information design, in my opinion.

Online Python book

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I've hacked up my fair share of PHP scripts and have played around with Ruby on Rails but have been really interested in Python lately. Between what appears to be a very clean syntax and the availability of such frameworks such as Django, it seems like it could be a ...

An interesting Venn on Social Media

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

http://www.mattjmcd.com/2008/08/a-definitive-explanation-of-social-media/This is, at the very least, an interesting start on segmenting the emerging areas of social media. I had never really checked out Squidoo before but find it's approach to social knowledge rather interesting especially how they leverage other Web services to inform their own product. One the primary challenges ...

Interesting looking Video Conferencing gateways

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

http://www.3cx.com/phone-system/sip-server.htmlhttp://www.gnugk.org/VC is HUGE at work and this looks like these could be a promising solution for gateway products for SIP and H323, respectively. I will need to remember to test this out.

RoR Project management tool

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Redmine http://www.redmine.org/

Another smart move by Adobe

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

So what might this really be about? Let's see, Mozilla is the one browser really supporting the SVG standard and what happens when you have an Ecmascript compliant vector graphic-enabled browser? Flash begins to look expensive. It's still a long way off but making this move early ...