How to keep your code from destroying you

Mesmo com um orçamento que representa um terço de São Paulo, a ainda pobre Bogotá, 8 milhões de habitantes, apresenta inovações em transporte público, educação no trânsito, habitação e cultura.

guidelines on charging for creative work

Locoroco the game uses a signal system based system for the majority of its setups. What that means is using very simple objects that send and or receive signals the designers then connect them in creative ways to make the game.

The No-Fear Guide to Multimedia Skills

2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOgg.org, a campaign to encourage use of the patent- and license-free standard Ogg Vorbis as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.

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The Gentoo Xeffects Wiki is a wiki maintained by the best of the community to provide valid documentation for users. This helps alleviate the problems in an open wiki where anyone posts what they think is right, and not what is proven.

In this special posting, I again take the point of looking at the US market versus me living in Europe. Reading blogs from around the world, listening to podcast, shopping, making conversations as well as work online with customers throughout the world.

Lots and lots of libre vector goodies

which went on to become a staple model in Vista/OS X

Oh, the joys of corporate agendas. RIP Freehand

When your skill using standard-based design eclipses your skill using old-school table-based methods, you’ll look back and marvel at how much more sense it makes to layout a page with CSS.

Here is an outline of the key issues, mostly in Becker's own words, hoping it would motivate you to read the original. The main points have been highlighted in bold. The complete citation of the book is given below.

The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.

BRINGING TOGETHER THE GLOBAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BOOK 'DESIGNERS ARE WANKERS'

The UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections has selected and digitized 5,124 of the more than three million images contained in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Daily News photographic archives.

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

First, of all let me say that “Pathfinder” is a horrible name for this palette. It doesn’t actually “find” paths. It makes it easy to combine paths, divide objects, subtract shapes, etc.

We're Big John and Holly Bergevin, and together we built this site to explain some obtuse CSS bugs in modern browsers, provide demo examples of interesting CSS behaviors, and show how to "make it work" without using tables for layout purposes.

Branding. Most people think that “brand” begins and ends with the logo, when the truth is much more than that.

Video-courses made up of links to free video tutorials from around the web.

It doesn’t stop after graduation.

a CDDB for fonts?

yeah \m/

A comprehensive view on still image/video compression standards

Ceibes.org será nun futuro próximo unha plataforma de novas, debate e creazón para o concepto mais amplo da Cultura Ceibe, que extende o modelo do Software a outros ámbitos da informazón (música, cinema, literatura, grafismo...)

RASTUS has proved ideal for producing high resolution (near-continuous tone) negatives for contact prints using alternative photographic processes, and "screenless" halftones for offset printing.

Where the Firefox logo came from (and a variety of other graphic/web work)

This may be the easiest way to make a simple, interactive, multimedia CD, because it takes advantage of the multimedia capabilities already built into most web browsers.

The theme at STL's twice-yearly Telco 2.0 Brainstorm is familiar: "How to making money in an IP-based world". But it has an added piquancy now.

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Social network sites (SNSes) like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are ubiquitous and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using these sites to access public life. How is public life shaped by social technology?

Smarty provides the programmer and template designer with a wealth of tools to automate tasks commonly dealt with at the presentation layer of an application.

This article describes techniques you can use to create new levels of usefulness in your dynamically generated charts. Cook up some automatically generated graphs for your organizational meetings or live enterprise directory data.

Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We're not excited by tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.

Underware: Sketches have been made to explain some basic issues in type design during the workshops. They get used to point out some problems which raise while creating a new typeface.

jazz and strange flash type experiments

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Good/provoking food for thought for us print+web designers: 'If you are a print designer, and “do websites on the side”, STOP DOING websites and providing “advice” to your print clients about web design.'

from Madeira with love: questionform is a web application for creating, publishing and analysing online surveys and forms

A voice PBX system is typically thought of as being all work and no play. How much fun can you have with a system that is designed to provide voicemail and call extensions, right?

nodebox type goodness

The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the quickest way to build a works cited page. And it's free.

Libre design from Galicia

Extending Inkscape with Python

And most are under the GPL \o/

Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.

Howard S. Becker's home

A collage homage to Akzidenz grotesk

I've also been spending a lot of time lately mulling over questions from undergraduates asking how they can be me and worrying about elder academics who tell me that i don't deserve the attention that i get.

You are free to use these fonts on any system you would like. You are free to redistribute them under the GPL+exception license found in the download. Using these fonts does not subject your documents to the GPL--it liberates them from any proprietary cla