This line caught my attention while I scrolled through MoinMoin wiki features:
written in Python! This means that you can easily read and use the source, even if you don’t know Python yet.
It has love for Python written all over it.
Category: All
All posts across the whole website belong to this category. They might also belong to some other categories as well, but this one holds all of them. Hence the descriptive name – All.
On the importance of early adopters
Scobleizer has a really nice blog post on the importance of early adopters. Go and read it.
Early adopters DO matter. Anyone who says that they don’t needs to go back to business school.
New day, new month, new job
As some of you already know, I’ve changed my job. For the last year or so I used to be the Senior Developer, System Administrator, Project Manager, and so on and so forth at mmVirtual Ltd, which is one of the top web design and development companies in Cyprus.
Starting from today, I am employed as Senior Web Developer at EuroOrient Ltd. This company is in the financial services markets. I will be a part of IT team, working for the first time with my brother. Most of my time will be spent on taking all FxPro web sites to the next level.
In the meantime, I will still be doing IT consulting and occasional development for mmVirtual Ltd., as well as a few other companies that I managed to develop some relationships with over the last couple of years. While I mostly do system administration and technology assessments for them, I see that my career is moving more into web development area. I am a frequent user of web development techniques and technologies, but I feel that my programming skills need a lot of improvements. So if you see a change of focus on this blog, don’t be too surprised – I have a lot of catching up to do (pointers and suggestions are much appreciated, by the way).
The Flickr Portrait Gallery Hall of Excellence 2007
Flickr user Amsterdamned! published this compilation – “The Flickr Portrait Gallery Hall of Excellence 2007”. Click on the image above to go its Flickr page, which has links to the original images in larger size. These are so good – they are an absolute must see!
Googley Design Principles
Very much in line with the image explaining simplicity of user interfaces, comes the list of Googley Design Principles:
1. Focus on people—their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. Every millisecond counts.
3. Simplicity is powerful.
4. Engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Dare to innovate.
6. Design for the world.
7. Plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
8. Delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Be worthy of people’s trust.
10. Add a human touch.
Anyone doing any sort of user interface work should learn these by heard and repeat them as every morning mantra.