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Links from An Event Apart 2008 – Day Two

Stephanie — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:54:05 +0000

Edenbee: Social networking and carbon footprints by Clearleft.
A Dao of Web Design: Jeremy Keith says everyone must read this. It talks about giving up pixel perfect control of the display of your websites.
Google social graph API: Traces XFN and hCard references to connect your different profiles and find out who you are connected to.
SCRUM: Replacement for the waterfall development method. It’s agile. Recommended by Kelly Goto.
Trulia Snapshot: Data visualization by Stamen – using real estate in San Francisco.
Rescue Time: Track what you spend time doing on your computer.

Links from An Event Apart 2008 – Day One

Stephanie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:21:20 +0000

Bobulate: Can’t remember why it was mentioned but it is about IA and looks interesting.
Wired: Apparently half the people in the room read it. Jason used it as an example of how print can be very cool looking but the web is missing that pizzaz for individual articles.
NY Times articles about Trolls: Don’t feed the trolls. One of the trials of community managers.
Flickr Colouring Contest: Making lemonaid out or error messages as part of community management.
Improve Everywhere: Organizers of no pants day.
A Brief Message: 200 word articles on design.
Iced or Hot: The example website from Dan Cedarholm’s talk. The code is good but the data is not live.
http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/: It doesn’t look the same in all browsers.
Adobe Labs.: Dreamweaver CS4 Beta.

Also, Jeremy Keith live blogged the whole works from the front row.

@media links to check out

Stephanie — Sat, 26 May 2007 10:50:53 +0000

This is a list consisting of all the websites and books recommended during the course of the conference that interested me enough to warrant writing down for later evaluation (including links to most of the presentations):

Tim O’Reilly
Delta Tango Bravo
Web Typography
Boxes and Arrows – currently featuring an article on comic books!
Netvibes – normally I’m not a portal person. To be check out in combination with Veerle’s theme.
searchmash
poetpainter
Book: Four Hour Work Week
ma.gnolia.com
Flash aid
Note Tab
digg labs
Book: Concrete by Paul Chadwick
Pingerati
Book: Just Ask
Book: Neuromancer
Article: Tao of Web Design
Book: Pro Javascript Techniques

Presentations:

Missed a few, let me know if you have them.

Dan Cederholm: Interface Design Juggling
Jeffrey Veen: Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps (PDF)
Cameron Moll: Designing for Communication (isn’t working, might not have written fast enough to get the whole thing?)
Andy Clarke: Royale with Cheese
Tantek Celik: Microformats, Building Blocks, and You

Delicious + FireFox + Snap Links

Stephanie — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:06:24 +0000

I keep up on my favorite blogs and web comics by book marking them all in Firefox and then using the “open all in tabs” option that FireFox so nicely includes to open all the book marks at once. That way I can keep track of which ones I’ve read by closing them once I’m done :) Yeah, it’s lazy I know.

I’ve been wanting to have access to my bookmarks when I’m away from my home computer (who doesn’t) so I jumped on the del.icio.us band wagon a few days ago.

I hunted around for an add-on of some sort that would let me open all my delicious bookmarks in new tabs without much success. Turns out I was being too specific. Snap Links is a great add on that will let you select links on your screen by dragging the mouse over them, sort of the same way you’d select icons on your desktop. And it’s smart enough to only open the first link down in the HTML hierarchy, so with delicious you don’t open all the edit / delete links and with search engines you don’t open all the cached / similar pages links.

Edit: It kind of interferes with my mouse gestures if I’m not careful but it’s not that hard to avoid.