June 2009 - Blog Watch

You can’t go wrong with a bold fruit theme. Goldfish always work, too. Link to The Fruit Box | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

Good attention to detail. Balanced use of bright color and monochrome. Link to Michael J. Fox Foundation | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

The Home Page title says it all. “Patrick Bizier: Art & Illustration.” Link to Patrick Bizier | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

This stylin’ home page does such a good job featuring the see-through propane tank that I almost want to run out and buy one. Almost. Link to The Lite Cylinder | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

Maximum content in a defined area. Very interactive design. Sophisticated. Good lookin’. Link to Max Aub | View all Stylin Sites Read More...

I was looking for an opportunity to dig into Roger Martin's rockin' Gallery Server Pro source code for a while now, and creating a Recent Photos View for Sueetie was my big chance.  Here's the new Recent Photos View of my personal Photo Gallery so you'll know what I'm talking about.     Below is what it looked like before with Gallery Server Pro's default home page view. I wanted to go to my Photo Gallery and immediately see what's new, so I designed...

My session is at SoCalCodeCamp at UCSD room 105 at 2:00 pm – I am looking forward to showing and telling a good number of my developer friends about the joy of multi touch application development in Windows 7 as I know it so far.  I’ll post the deck in advance, as I normally do, so you can ask all those tough questions during and after my presentation. Windows 7 Touch Dev New View more documents from lynnlangit . In case you are wondering I do plan on returning to my ‘build a Win7 app’ blog...

Antithetically speaking. “Google keeps tripping over Microsoft’s grave.” Great title, don’t you think? Interesting excerpts include “Google is the antithesis of Microsoft” and “Google can afford to give away everything that makes Microsoft valuable.” Speaking of search, I’ve been happily settling in with Bing the last couple of weeks. Apparently I’m not alone, as Bing continues to gain click share. I use it at least 20 times a day. Yeap, got my Bing, got my Zune. Life is good. Zune quote of the day...

JSON date formatting can seem like such a daunting proposition that even a Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt under your JC Penneys Oxford won't summon the answer.  This issue ground me into the dirt but good, so I wanted to share the solution with you.  There are clues to be gleaned. Bertrand Le Roy wrote an excellent post on JSON dates, for instance, which is helpful in understanding the issues. This Stack Overflow answer supporting Bertrand Le Roy's guidance is probably a ready solution...

James Canton’s Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World kept my attention from start to finish. I read a lot of future trend books as you know, and this is a keeper. 100 pages of excerpts are not shown here, so this book is chock full of margin scribblings. 4 out of 5 Nordic Track Ski Stars. ____________________ p.8 Developing a Predictive Awareness about the future is about knowing where to look, what to see, and how to apply it for benefit. p.30 Much of what we want to accomplish...

Although it has been just a few weeks since I joined Telligent full-time, I feel like I am at full speed (What happened to the orientation and ramp up?). Fortunately, I have had the opportunity to work with Rob and the Telligent management team in an advisory capacity for several months, so the learning curve isn’t quite as steep. I am flattered that I have the opportunity to contribute to Telligent. The warm reception is appreciated and I am grateful for the strong community of Telligent supporters...

Cluetrain Chugs Again. Those words are Doc Searls’ who announces an open forum coming Tuesday, June 16th at the Harvard Law School. Doc, David Weinberger and Jonathan Zittrain will host the forum which is titled, “Cluetrain at 10: So How’s Utopia Working Out for Ya?” There will be a webcast which I hope we’ll be able to download and listen to on our Zunes! The Great Facebook Vanity Url Rush. Lots of “Got my Facebook Url!” tweets a couple nights ago as the minutes ticked past midnight. Two standout...

The MSDN Northeast Roadshow with Chris Bowen, Jim O’Neil and Bob Familiar is what’s for dinner. It’s required for any serious .NET developer. Those who skip the MSDN Northeast Roadshow are the symbolic equivalent of the sleek black van passengers to whom Philip Seymour Hoffman points and yells, “Looooo-ser! Move on!” as they drive past the flipped truck in Twister. The MSDN Roadshow is a day-long event for .NET developers. It is required for several reasons. First, you get to see Chris Bowen’s smiling...