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280 North Demo’s Atlas at FOWA Miami

Kevin Flahaut — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:42:13 +0000

208 North demoed Atlas at the FOWA conference in Miami. It’s a really spiffy web-based IDE for Cappuccino geared towards building desktop style apps for the web. Go sign up for information on the release so you can be one of the first to play with Atlas.

Keep an eye on 280 North.. they’re going places for sure.

Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote from FOWA Miami

Kevin Flahaut — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:53:06 +0000

Gary crushed it for sure. You have to admire and be inspired by his passion. Watch the video, then get off your butt and do something you love.

Barry Schwartz on Practical Wisdom at TED 2009

Kevin Flahaut — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:22:15 +0000

Yet another one of the great talks from TED 2009 – Barry Schwartz makes a case for “practical wisdom” in our society that’s become so reliant on bureaucracy to take care of our problems. He argues that rules and incentives usually fail to work and that we need to strive for personal responsibility and a real morality and character ethic to move us forward and out of crisis.

Amos Lee Jams

Kevin Flahaut — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:44:18 +0000

Thanks to Pandora, I’ve recently discovered Amos Lee. Where have I been? Oh well, better a latecomer than never getting to hear this.

Cross Browser Developement and No Excuses

Kevin Flahaut — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:40:16 +0000

As the ubiquitous (and crappy) IE browser begins to wane in popularity, it’s increasingly more important for developers to focus on cross-browser development. “Works on my machine” just isn’t a suitable answer anymore folks.

Logo Design Process Gone Wrong

Kevin Flahaut — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:24:17 +0000

Wow. I’m amazed at the “process” the SDSU logo designers had to endure and just how little they were paid to deal with it. A designer’s nightmare for sure.

More Mood Board Goodness

Kevin Flahaut — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:11:32 +0000

Another good read by Mindy Wagner over at Web Designer Depot on mood boards for web projects..

Weeble Machines

Kevin Flahaut — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:14:55 +0000

Okay, first hour of 2009 and already the Internets have shown me curious and wonderful things. The videographer called this “Machines That Almost Fall Over” Okay, I like it from an artistic standpoint.. although I’d be hard-pressed to assign any rational meaning to it. I think I would have called it “Machines That Waste 62 Seconds of Your Time” or maybe “Machines That Wobble But They Won’t Fall Down”.

Baking is Gay

Kevin Flahaut — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:23:11 +0000

I always wondered, but now I have confirmation that baking is gay.

Star Wars Origami with Dollar Bills

Kevin Flahaut — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:00:28 +0000

Here’s a few ways you can still get something interesting out of a couple of bucks. Check out this gallery of sweet origami Star Wars and Star Trek ships made from plain old bank notes.

Source: http://dvice.com/archives/2008/10/amazing_star_wa.php