Using jQuery to make your designs more interactive

Most of my work entails taking flat Photoshop files and turning them into functioning interactive web sites. One of the bigger issues is I usually don’t know what the page is supposed to actually do. Falling back on a few years experience helps, and some stuff is pretty obvious (click here, go there), but most of the time I’d much rather be lazy and have someone just tell me what it needs to do. (more…)

Delicious WordPress

I always just assume most new web apps are mostly used by little guys. Take Twitter for example. Out of the gate it just seems like a way to post your status to the web and interact with your friends. Nothing big. Well, until the celebs and branding experts realized the potential… (more…)

Maker’s and Managers

I found this article by Paul Graham about maker’s schedule vs. Manager’s schedule.

Most powerful people are on the manager’s schedule. It’s the schedule of command. But there’s another way of using time that’s common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can’t write or program well in units of an hour. That’s barely enough time to get started.

It’s a good read, and I found a lot of good points especially from the maker’s side of things.

Mostly he talks from the angle of meetings, but for me this goes for any type of interruption. Conference calls, emails, IMs, tweets, text messages, letter, anything.

Anyway, it’s a good reference, especially if you’ve called me and I’ve seemed a bit distracted on the phone ;)

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