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Fiber glass ‘Floating Island’ replicates marine life in form

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:52:22 +0000

Designed as a permanent dwelling for the Bay of Caletilla, Acapulco the Floating Island takes its inspiration from microorganisms inhabiting the marine world. The fiber glass structure designed by Pedro Reyes closely replicates the unicellular exoskeleton form of sea microorganisms like the radiolarian and diatomea in its form. The Floating Island consists of a hollowed center which becomes a round pool in the bottom with a zenithal light doom

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SitePoint Podcast #78: UX Bullsh*t with Matt Magain and James Mansfield

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:22:50 +0000

Episode 78 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week Kevin Yank ( @sentience ) chats with Matt Magain ( @mattymcg ) and James Mansfield ( @jmans ), User Experience Designers at SitePoint and 99designs, respectively. They discuss recent comments by ThinkVitamin founder Ryan Carson claiming that ‘UX Professional’ isn’t a real job. Listen in your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can also download this episode as a standalone MP3 file.

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?Quick Hit NFL Football? launches with league makeover; Facebook version coming later

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:08:17 +0000

more images more images Quick Hit football video game gets NFL makeover SEATTLE ? Thursday marks the kickoff of the 2010 NFL season, and along with it, a renewed interest in fantasy leagues and video games that let Monday-morning quarterbacks feel as if they’re part of the action. The perennial champ of the genre, Electronic Arts Inc.’s “Madden,” has ..

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Taking a SitePoint Course In Your Own Time

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:25:51 +0000

A common question we receive from customers about our courses is: if you miss the scheduled start of a course, when will you be able to take that course? The great thing about all our courses is that you don’t need to wait — you can sign up and get started straight away! Let’s take our first course, JavaScript Live, for example

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Bill Johnston Keynote at CKVI

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:10:00 +0000

index.php/creatingknowledge/2010/schedConf/ presentations and biography here ). He presented the Information Literate University as being an agenda for change in a university: the process of change has been slow in the past and although it still can’t be instant it still needs to speed up

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TCBY: Can This Yogurt Logo Be Saved?

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:26:47 +0000

In many ways, TCBY was ahead of their time. One of the first national frozen yogurt chains, TCBY was offering healthy snacks with fun toppings long before competitors such as Red Mango and Pinkberry. With over 900 franchise locations, this brand has a presence that would make most frozen yogurt shops envious

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Five tips for speeding up Eclipse PDT and Zend Studio – Zend Developer Zone

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:12:00 +0000

Eclipse Helios (3.6) and Zend Studio 7.1 (and above) include a new version of Eclipse PDT, labeled 2.2. This new release uses a new repository for storing code reference information. With these simple tips you can significantly improve the performance of this repository which will speed up code completion, searching for definitions, type hierarchy views and more.

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Project Importer v4.1 Release – Keith Casey

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:47 +0000

After a major cleanup of the structure and logic due to a handful of issues, v4.1 of the Project Importer is now available! You can download the latest version here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/web2project-mod/files/Project-Importer/ The purpose of the Project Importer is to allow users to import their project plans from other systems. Currently Microsoft Project and WBS Gantt Chart Pro are supported.

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It’s All About You: Ideas For Designing An About Page

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:53:23 +0000

When designing web sites, there is a tendency for About pages to be treated as the poor cousin of the home page of your site, yet the About page is often one of the most visited pages on your site, particularly if you are offering a service. People want to know about the person or company that they are doing business with

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Tutoring attaches a lamp to a flowerpot for green living space

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:42:38 +0000

With the reducing size of modern urban apartments, people hardly find any space to grow an indoor garden, which forces them to live in an unnatural and unhealthy environment. Designed for La Corbeille, the “Tutoring” by Aurélien Veyrat & Tanguy Nguyen from Aavra is an innovative planter that includes a floor lamp to add extra space in compact living rooms.

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