September 2010
18 posts
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Is your design qwerty?
The QWERTY layout is a fine example of a fossil. It is sometimes said that it was designed to slow down the typist, but this is wrong; it was designed to allow faster typing - under a constraint now long obsolete. In early typewriters, fast typing using nearby type-bars jammed the mechanism. So Sholes fiddled the layout to separate the letters of many common digraphs. Also, putting the letters...
5 levels of JavaScript Knowledge
While there may be 14 types of programmers in general, I’ve decided to classify JavaScript Devs into 5 groups. And just to prove how good this effort is, I don’t fall cleanly into any of them.
1. Paster - Pastes code and plugins from other sites, may use a JS library but doesn’t have a clue how it works. This describes 80% of jQuery developers.
2. Hacker - Has some programming...
RT @rworth: Self respecting web developer? Civic duty: http://www.promotejs.com/
RT @mozFirefox: RAM, you say? Om nom nom nom
I tried to read a self help book on ADD. Tl;dr
Webkit’s treatment of form styles much more sensible then gecko. #firefox #fixme
Running 4 browsers and I’m not doing browser testing. Something’s happening to me
RT @pvponline: Minecraft is a stupid game and I hate it and it’s dumb and stupid and a waste of time and I’m logging in again right now.
Night 2 of http://www.amnesiagame.com/. It’s amazingly scary. Like a great horror book you can’t put it down.
RT @thegamedesigner: Congrats to Notch, for making such a great game. #Minecraft, #Indie #GameDesign
I was browsing #childsplay #charity wishlists and saw this http://j.mp/heart-breaker And then I had something in my eye, I swear!
The cost of the header on mobile apps/pages is higher in landscape. I recommend an thinner alt in that mode
RT @PSFK: (Video) Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Snake http://su.pr/2wSL2b
Played http://bit.ly/dinJPs at #pax. Awesome. I will be bookmarking some Microsoft points for this one. @skastudios
The iPod touch is the #1 portable game player in the world. Game journalists need to take iOS seriously. http://j.mp/8Yd0ZV
Sitting in game design pannels at #pax. I’m compelled to chime in and be part of the discussion.
RT @gapingvoid: Solving a client’s creative problem is dime-a-dozen. Teaching clients to solve the creative problem themselves is… fuc …
#tweetreview Shank (XBLA) Meets my high expectations. Combat is smooth, brutal, and fun. More difficulty levels would be cool. 8.5/10