To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish
To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish : I seem to be on a kick today quoting myself and others, so bear with me. Eric Karjaluoto
Posts Tagged writing
Quiet
Things will probably be a little quiet around here this week. I
Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic
Why Windows Phone 7 Will Make Android Look Chaotic : Brian X. Chen, writing for Wired: With brand new test facilities, Microsoft is taking on the duty of ensuring that touchscreens and sensors are calibrated properly, for example, and each hardware model undergoes software stress tests to catch bugs and system errors (see picture above). The end result should be getting very close to the same OS on smartphones made by different manufacturers. That in turn could mitigate the issue of fragmentation for third-party developers: They can effectively code the same app for a large party of devices without much tweaking. This approach positions Microsoft somewhere in between Apple
In Which I Film Myself Saying
In Which I Film Myself Saying
ProCSSor, a CSS
ProCSSor, a CSS
iFontMaker for iPad
iFontMaker for iPad : Create your own handwriting font in TTF format. Check the gallery for samples. /via @wTyeRogers … Read the rest here
Khoi Vinh Resigns as NYTimes.com Design Director
Khoi Vinh Resigns as NYTimes.com Design Director : A good friend and long-time inspiration for me, Khoi is moving on: It wasn
In Defense of Vendor Prefixes
…that having been the original working title for “ Prefix or Posthack “, my latest article for A List Apart . (Sort of like Return of the Jedi had a working title of Blue Harvest .) In a fairly quick read, I make the case that vendor prefixes are not only good, they have the potential to be great and to deliver greater interoperability and advancement of CSS. So far the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive, which frankly came as a bit of a surprise. The annoyance factor of prefixes is undeniable, and it’s been my experience that annoyance dramatically hardens opposition regardless of whether or not there are good reasons to oppose. … Read the rest here
Unboxing Apart
Writing a book is hard. Ask someone who’s writing a book right now how it’s going and chances are you’ll catch them at a bad moment. But there are good moments. Writing the final words of a book: that’s a good moment. Having conversations with a kick-ass editor : those are good moments. Hearing that the book has been sent to the printer: that’s a really good moment… Read the rest here
Capturing Ideas in the Shower
Two sizes of dive slates, as displayed in my shower. I
Welcome to the bitstream
Like many others before me, I
The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk.
The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. : Jocelyn K. Glei, writing for The 99 Percent: Though we are more likely than ever to be tethered to others by our iPhones and Blackberries, it
Pilot Handwriting
Pilot Handwriting : Print a sheet, write your uppercase and lowercase letters by hand, take a photograph of it with your webcam, and begin typing. Restricted to this (promotional) site, but looks like fun, albeit somewhat tedious fun. … Read the rest here
Herman Miller Desk Adjusts for Work Standing or Sitting
Herman Miller Desk Adjusts for Work Standing or Sitting : Sonia Zjawinski, writing for Unplggd : In the never-ending debate over what
Comments
“I turned off comments in the last redesign of powazek.com because I needed a place online that was just for me. With comments on, when I sat down to write, I
Fanboi
Fanboi
The Web Stack
Following on my “HTML5 vs. Flash” talk of a couple of weeks ago, I’m hoping to do a bit of blogging about HTML5, Flash, mobile apps, and more. But first I need to get some terminology straight. As I did in my talk, I’m going to refer to the collection of front-end web-standards technologies
A List Apart: Habit Fields
A List Apart: Habit Fields : Jack Cheng, describing the habits we associate or exhibit with certain objects: Thanks to the computer