Where designers and developers should meet, according to Tim Van Damme.
Designers and Developers should meet in the middle!
That would be great, if it would work that great each time!
Archive for June, 2009
We all know that designers are cool. They generally dress well, and have a good sense of style. I’ve also noticed that they tend to have cool bags – but what is inside of those bags?
Watching at desks, I found two very interesting posts featuring no desks but Designers pockets. The first was written back in 2008 the second just a while ago in May 2009. Both are featuring the inside of some well or less well known designers from around the web.
Apart from looking at Desks, looking into bags could become my new addiction.
Post number 61 after Relaunch
This is the 61st post after my relaunch of this blog. I’m happy that everything went so great till now and I have fun writing this blog — which probably is the most important aspect for me at the moment. Writing this blog brought me some thoughts, but that’s an other story.
But what is this? Why the 61st post? Well simply cause I missed the 50, I choose the 61st. I think it’s important to review past times. I think it’s important, especially for the writer. Now, exactly 7 month since I relaunched this blog — I relaunched at the 23rd of December, now it is the 23rd of June — which counts down to 8 posts per month — I’m impressed by my self!
For now I want to thank you, the reader — if someone reads this? I try to keep doing this blog and getting better in writing, for me and for you and I try to find my self — which is a little hard at the moment. Now lets party, celebrate this 61st post! And for the upcoming 61 — and more — other posts!
Finally: iPhone I’m coming
Today the 19th of June 2009 I’m going to pick up my first iPhone! I wanted one since Apple announced it on the 9th of January 2007. There were different reasons for not getting an iPhone that time, one was that I already had an contract in place which now ends and some others were written down in an much earlier post — these thoughts, published in that old post, are now over-thought and no more accurate. Now I’m going to hit it! I pre-ordered an 32GB white iPhone 3GS and will pick it up right after school at 12:45AM today.
Over the past two years and now three different iPhone versions I had the chance to play with an iPhone a few times but more less than often — around here not many own one. Now I’m going to test that crazy device and probably will write about my opinion on it later.
Have a nice day everyone, I definitely will!
WordPress Feature Request: Trash
WordPress 2.8 just hit the public and I already upgraded but there is one feature I would love to see which is not there (maybe it’s not even ‘wanted).
Something what happened several times over the past few month was that I wrote my post locally and than went over to my browser — currently Safari 4.0 formally Safari 4 beta and earlier Firefox 3 — and copy/pasted my post into the admin-interface of WordPress. That is pretty easy but I’m often doing that at a early stage of the post to write it within the WYSIWYG editor of WordPress. OK I could use some nifty blogging application like MarsEdit but I’m not — at least currently — cause none of them provide the features I would love to see. So I’m online doing my edits and than scheduling my posts.
Doing so far is no problem. It’s easy and even a browser crash is easily backuped via the WordPress Post Revisions. But I often store drafts online to be published someday — sometimes I even save post ideas as drafts and not as local files. And there is the problem, if I sort through the posts I’ve stored as drafts and delete some I don’t want to write. But what if I come back later and want to get one of my ideas back—that is impossible, they are gone for ever!
What about a WordPress Trash? OK, you get asked one more time, after you clicked the ‘delete’ Button, if you really want to delete that post, but what if you wanted to delete the post previously and come back about 2 hours later cause you rethought and changed your opinion about the post?
I think it would be nice to have a WordPress Trash to store deleted items — posts as well as pages and media files — with the ability to delete them if I want to (just like my Mac OS X Trash) and maybe some settings to tell WordPress to automatically clean up the Trash after, lets say 14 days.
Maybe a 2.9/3.0 feature or plugin? I would love the feature!
I wish people of my generation were as passionate about government as they are about insignificant changes to the layout of Facebook.
~ @holloway
What I do with Ideas if I have no Time for Them
The past weeks and the upcoming are full of stress—and I wrote many times about that—but I have one more problem that occurred recently. What shall I do with new and maybe great ideas?
At the moment I’m preparing for my final exam. Schools coming to an end for this year of school and everyone tried to rush it to get projects and marks done in time. I’m trying to stay focused and to learn the stuff that needs to be learned.
Till I get one thing. And this one thing is a new idea. And it’s funny, new and especially new great ideas chop in if there is absolutely no time to think about them. I have the problem that if I have a new idea, I try to focus on that, brainstorm it and get to know what’s in the pot for me, if I can realize it, if it is possible or just if I could imagine to do it.
Lately I tried to focus on writing new ideas down, and stay focused on the projects I’m working at right now—school and some little client projects! Even though that is hard, it’s great training for my discipline to focus but it’s not easy!
I think everyone has problems like that, especially people who have many ideas. Most of the time they occur when there is no time and if there is time I have no ideas—which is great cause than I can get the ideas done which occurred while I had no time.
I hope I can stay focused, get school finished the best way I can and let new ideas be new ideas on paper.
HOME is a feature film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. HOME will be released on June 5th all around the world on every format.
HOME Project is one of those projects which make me exited about change in the world. Here in Europe the film will be released at exactly the same time as this post at the YouTube Channel of HOME Project. I’m really exited how it will turn out and how the film is going to be and I like the fact that the movie is carbon offset.
HOME the movie is carbon offset.
It means that all the CO2 emissions engendered by making of the film are calculated and offset by sums of money that are used to provide clean energy to those who don’t have any. For the last ten years, all the work of Yann Arthus-Bertrand has been carbon offset.
Home is financing a project of diffusion of anaerobic digesters in the Hassan district in India.
I hope more projects of this kind will be made in the future!
I like viewing at others desks and how they are set up/designed — hava a look at mine. Now I have found a great list of 25 Mac Setups.
Great list of 25 Mac Setups by cartridgesave.co.uk
Maybe I’d add some others to that list, but it’s definitely a great list of Mac Setups!
I like the one in the picture above (middle) most, it was the desk of Glenn Wolsey while he had a Mac Pro but now as far as I know, he’s using a MacBook Pro, which would be everything I would need (well maybe I’d ad a Apple Cinema Display to my wish list).
Glenn Wolseys MacBook Pro Workstation
