Monthly Archives: April 2009

Lessons ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Should Have Taught

Image from The Devil Wears Prada

I watched The Devil Wears Prada on a flight from Houston to London this week. The movie was enjoyable and frustrating. Like many Hollywood productions it devalued ambition and professional improvement. Being “true” and professional success aren’t incompatible. In fact […]

Funky Friday Collection – 24 April 2009

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Another Friday, and here’s another selection of awesome resources I found around the internet in the past week.

Design Inspiration

30 Beautiful White Desktop Wallpaper – IzzatAzizDotCom

I keep a pretty minimal desktop – no icons, a nice image, a […]

Architectural Styles In Website Design

Early draft screenshot of robin-cannon.com

Great websites are like great buildings, a perfect combination of form and function. Architectural design and styles translate well to a digital format, so it’s surprising how little architectural inspiration there is in web design.

Using Architecture As Inspiration

I […]

Funky Friday Collection – 17 April 2009

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Here’s this week’s selection of what I found coolest on the web this week.

Wordpress

A to Z of WordPress .htaccess Hacks – Nometech.com

.htaccess is one of the most useful files for configuring the way your blog (or any […]

Twitter #hashtags And Why #themethursday Is Great

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As Twitter matures as a service it’s becoming far more useful as a tool. The use of #hashtags to allow flexible search and monitoring of topics means you can find relevant information in the massive amount of updates. TweetDeck’s search […]