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You and site performance, sitting in a tree…
Way back in December of last year (seems like a lifetime ago) I wrote what was to be my last official blog before I took my unexpected “leave of absence” on a new trial presentation software called ” Exhibitview “. In my post I sang the praises of the simplicity of the program and probably put the livliehood of several smaller trial presentation companies at risk
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Exihibitview Revisited
As designers, we usually present technical and quantitative data containing numbers and symbols into beautiful charts and graphs to make them more interesting, less boring and easy-to-understand. This is because people are generally able to understand things from pictures quicker than from text or numbers.
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20 graph creators for making charts online with ease [del.icio.us]
Episode 59 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe ( @iFroggy ), Brad Williams ( @williamsba ), Stephan Segraves ( @ssegraves ), and Kevin Yank ( @sentience ).
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SitePoint Podcast #59: Speaking of Fail
This is the last of my three-post series about new Twitter apps and tools I recently found. We already covered a set of new-to-me Twitter clients and seven tools for using Twitter in unexpected ways . This post is all about fun! Here are seven tools that focus solely on how to make Twitter fun … and much more addictive
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7 Tools to Help You Have More Fun on Twitter
My morning yesterday at HIFA was filled with a sense of awe when I attended a play titled “The Woman Who Didn’t Belong To A Political Party”. I absolutely loved this play. It is really about what Mbuya Nehanda went through and that she gave birth to a spirit of resistance that ushered in a new Zimbabwe.
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Unity through theatre
So far in this series we’ve taken a look at Typographic Logos and Type and Symbol logos . Today it’s the turn of those logos which are bold enough to go without accompanying type. The third category of logo design is “symbol-only” logos
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Fundamentals of Logo Design Part 4: Symbol-Only Logos
In the last post, we started to look at managing the more difficult moments as a graphic designer. Let’s continue this professional therapy and consider how to work with a difficult client. The Client/Professional Before you roll your eyes in recognition of this persona, trust us, you have probably had your moment
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Keeping Your Cool as a Graphic Designer – Part II
In every freelancer’s life, there are times when we’ll happily do a job gratis. Perhaps it’ll make a good folio piece, get our foot in the door of a new industry, or give us the kind of work experience we’d relish. But there are other times when, although you feel like you probably should do a free job, the idea doesn’t sit well with you
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently discovered a number of Twitter apps that are new to me. I kicked off my Twitter-sharing series by covering a set of Twitter clients that you may not of heard of. This post highlights seven tools to help you use Twitter beyond the expected ways
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7 Different (and Useful) Ways to Use Twitter
I knew that HIFA opening nights don’t disappoint – the same for this year! I was there and I don’t know about you but I was not disappointed; HIFA always finds something untamed for the opening. However as much as I saw the effort and time it took for the production to take place I did not get it. Maybe its because I am not a classical music person or something
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Harare is Alive
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my search for the perfect social network aggregator . I didn’t realize how difficult it would be to find a tool that combines Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn in a way that supports how I typically use the different sites. The good news is that a number of readers suggested different apps for me to try out, so the options are plenty.
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6 Twitter Clients You May Not Have Heard Of
Luis noted that he has been blogging about knowledge management for seven years and has yet to write a post on KM best practices. The senior partners were always asking us to present our firm’s best practices in knowledge management to clients. My friend, Luis Suarez provided the post, Why Best Practices Don’t Work for Knowledge Work .
Affordable American Air Conditioning and Heating logo design was created for our client located in Huston, Texas who wanted an all American looking logo design. Affordable American Air Conditioning and Heating Company services and installs Air conditiong and heating equipment in Huston and other major cities in Texas.
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Affordable American Air Conditioning and Heating Logo Design
In today’s tutorial, “ A Beginner’s Guide to Silverlight with PHP ,” author Jordan Knight takes a look at Microsoft’s .NET powered client side technology, Silverlight, which aims to satisfy the demand for Rich Internet Applications. Jordan starts off by showing us how to get started with Silverlight development using Visual Studio from Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer, and concludes by demonstrating how to use Silverlight to access PHP based web services. As you move through the article you’ll learn how simple and practical PHP and Silverlight integration can be
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A Beginner’s Guide to Silverlight with PHP
There is evidence * that a diet which includes loads of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) can lead to serious health issues over the long term such as Metabolic Syndrome and its myriad complications, including Obesity. The consumption of HFCS has increased substantially over the past 30 years, as has the obesity rate in the US (and some other developed countries). In the popular media, documentary films like Food, Inc
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Visualizing the consequences of sugary drinks
During WPF’s first version (v3, of course) we considered building a porting tool to enable WinForms developers to easily migrate to WPF. We didn’t build that migration tool because: We thought that the UI paradigm changes didn’t deserve a simple port, and believed people shouldn’t just port their battleship grey apps to WPF, but they should rethink and upgrade their user experience. We were aware of the VB6 –> WinForms converter and had the impression that it cost a bunch, but didn’t provide great customer value
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Software should adapt and improve when UI paradigms change – rethink, don’t just port
If this was done today, the agents could report their experiences in the field using blog posts and comments, and the perpetually changing practice can be updated in the wiki…very agile. A while back the Anecdote blog mentioned that we could do without the term knowledge worker , as even routine jobs require some element of dealing with context.
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“I am knowledge worker”, says the Janitor
We got a customer question about a change in behavior between WPF 4’s Release Candidate and WPF 4’s final version (RTM). We discovered late in WPF4 a change in behavior since WPF 3.x that affected StaticResource lookup. In v3.x, we would always determine what a StaticResource resolved to (which exact value in which resource dictionary should be the answer to the {StaticResource} execution) during parse time.
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My StaticResource reference worked differently with WPF 4 RC than it does with WPF 4 RTM
Webmaster Level: All As part of our efforts to make search results more useful to our users around the world, we’re announcing the international availability of rich snippets . If you’ve been following our blog posts, you already know that rich snippets let users see additional facts and data from your site in search results.
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Rich snippets go international