Category Archives: software

Maker Faire Madness

Posted on Monday, 14th Mar 2011 by Caz M

I had the pleasure of attending the 2011 Maker Faire event in Newcastle over the weekend. It was a real geek-fest – with all sorts of mad inventions and sciency-crafty-creativity on show. Alistair was demonstrating his Newcastle Metro Simulator, and … Continue reading →

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@media Session 8

Posted on Friday, 30th May 2008 by Caz

Building on the Shoulders of Giants Jonathan Snook Culture We come from a culture where developers tend to like to reinvent the wheel, whereas designers like to reuse. If, as developers, we want to use components of others’ work (under … Continue reading →

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@media Session 4

Posted on Thursday, 29th May 2008 by Caz

Content Management Without the Killing Drew McLellan Intro Tools should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. Don’t overcomplicate things! CMS required if you need to repurpose content (eg for RSS) and have a lot of aggregated content. Need … Continue reading →

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Interaction vs Passivity

Posted on Wednesday, 6th Jun 2007 by Caz

It’s that time of year again, and the Adobe Live roadshow has been to town. The two-day event was held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, and I went along to see demos of the latest versions of Photoshop, … Continue reading →

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Upgrades That Suck

Posted on Thursday, 4th Jan 2007 by Caz

Upgrades, gotta love ‘em. As it turned out, I foolishly accepted the offer of an upgrade to Windows Media Player 11 a couple of days ago. It all looked to have gone smoothly to begin with, and in fact I … Continue reading →

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