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Developer != Designer (13)
on Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen (170) permalinkI wanted a custom cursor for BabySmash! My son was having trouble associating the mouse cursor on the screen and the movement of the mouse. Clearly a shiny new Kids Cursor was in order. I went into Expression Blend and drew this hand cursor. I drew it with the spliney-liney pully-thing-tool. (That's the official name for it, I'm sure. I was feeling pretty good about this cursor. It had a gradient and everything. I put ...Shared by Alan Dean (234) Charleno Pires (194) EricAppel (29) Henrik Paul (1) Jannik (25) Joel (15) Lou (7) Luke (12) Mike (144) Peter (133) StevenMcD (1) Tim Costantino (19) Ville (6)Contribute comment
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That Would've Been an Option Too (11)
on The Daily WTF (340) permalinkWilhelm isn't really much of a smiler. Nor was he much of a laugher. Nor a crier, scowler, or high-fiver. He seemed to only be capable of two emotions: "emotionless" or "asleep." He's of the opinion that programming has gotten too easy in recent years, not like it was back in his day when programmers were programmers. A time before garbage collectors, transactions, protected memory, fancy IDEs with fancy integrated debuggers — nowadays developers have ...Shared by Alan Dean (234) cephyn (114) David Arcos (50) ephes (98) ghosttie (155) Jannik (25) Steven (16) TiTi (330) Todd (41) Venci (105) Vez (36)Contribute comment
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Western Spaghetti (37)
on Signal vs. Noise (1009) permalinkWhen I see stuff like this I’m 1. filled with envy, 2. filled with envy, 3. hungry. More wonderfulness can be found at eatPES.Shared by Aadom The Wygle (34) Adam (33) Alex (18) Andy (11) AriT93 (1) Audrey (14) Ben (20) chrisbrogan.com (141) Christopher (10) Cornerhouse (21) Darth Peeth (46) Dave (102) Diane (26) doransky (185) Elliott P. (103) FINiK (36) fmanjoo (54) foxtrot (3) Jannik (25) Jeffrey (55) Jesús Dugarte (61) John (21) Jon (88) Juan (34) Justin (32) Justin Pocta (43) Kesor (28) Martin Gordon (87) Paul Goode (14) Peter (30) ramyon (130) Shawn Szauksztun-Zvinis (27) slmnhq (152) sunblush (3) Tim C. (28) Ville (6) YuSuPh (152)Explore read four notes
- Justin Pocta said: i hadn't watched this yet for some reason, but what fun!
- Cornerhouse said: this is really cool -- very smart stop-action animation, with an excellent sense of what to use to represent "food".
- Audrey said: seriously. kinda awesome.
- Darth Peeth said: Knap gemaakt filmke!
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70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials (140)
on Smashing Magazine (1661) permalinkby Dirk Metzmacher Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. Of ...Shared by !!blue (45) !&# (254) Adam Fuhrer (419) adastra (57) AJ (1159) alexbig (63) amarkos (55) André (112) Andrea (39) Andrei (17) ani625 (555) Arley McBlain (26) b-rad (151) baardoa (59) Benjamin (3289) blacktulip (99) Brad (167) Brian (480) Chad Norman (54) Chris (217) Chris McQueen (9) Chuck Rogers (191) Claudio M. (70) D. Levi Durham (25) Damiano (19) Daniel (33) Daniel Aengenheyster (21) Deborah Petersen (3336) Dennis Stangl (165) Divino (16) dobata (1552) ecocentrik (30) elliotttt (7) etng (295) Filip Salindrija (51) frank_tentler (46) Freddy (13) gisc (161) gpessia (14) Gregor (83) Guillermo Bravo (1020) guy (2563) Hamid (8) Hendrik (18) hikbi (404) Holger E (62) iAdramelk (73) ilker (20) J Wynia (70) Jacob Carroll Ingalls (31) Jaime (122) Jannik (25) Jason Barnachea (88) Jason Kingery (25) javier (4) Jeff Rivers (34) Jennifer Murtha (11) jgonfre (69) Joe (34) Joe Mudd (48) Jon Anderson (711) Jon Phillips (408) Joseph (10) JP (5) Juaco (16) Justin (20) Kahong (19) kara (12) KenFan (365) Keshav (77) Kevin (15) KnarfJ (114) Kyle Fox (45) Leo Freitas (45) liamvictor (715) Lindsey Smith (44) llcheesell (223) Luciano Passuello (102) MacMoov (10) Mathew (79) mhmazidi (343) miasarmento (194) Michael Bartnett (221) Michael Coats (46) Mike Farho (12) Mike Lastname (18) Mike Schinkel (39) Mona N (261) monireh (148) Mox Folder (13) Mr. BabyMan (1704) NasirJumani (873) Neil (24) Netwalker (25) Nick Nogueira (110) Nico B (30) nuevecolas (64) Oneiros (257) Owen E. (49) Patty (912) Paul Edwards (175) Peter Duke (17) Phidias (66) PouarK (127) Qian (261) Rick Butterfield (207) Roanne (93) Robert Gene Rosero (60) Romey (99) Roxee Cruz (49) rzklkng (944) Sacha Chua (58) Samuel (192) Seb (2) Shane (45) Shine (99) Sonny Gill (88) Srinvard (251) Steven Verbruggen (18) Sumesh (215) Sun Tzu (2897) Tal Siach (2360) thomas (6) Thomas Smith (243) THT (12) Trevor (49) turkay (54) Tyson Williams (314) vega gravity (50) Venci (105) Vipul (220) warrior007 (1469) Wes Brown (68) William Becher (161) wolfie toutomoutochan (24) Xenon2021 (16) Yeehaw (172) yojibee (67) zertox (6) Zie (30)
- ecocentrik said: I don't do a lot of conventional retouching of faces but this list still looks very useful
- PouarK said: Très très très instructif =)
- Justin said: god i hate photoshop, and its fakeness
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Maybe Normalizing Isn't Normal (147)
on Coding Horror (899) permalinkOne of the items we're struggling with now on Stack Overflow is how to maintain near-instantaneous performance levels in a relational database as the amount of data increases. More specifically, how to scale our tagging system. Traditional database design principles tell you that well-designed databases are always normalized, but I'm not so sure. Dare Obasanjo had an excellent post When Not to Normalize your SQL Database wherein he helpfully provides a sample database schema for ...Shared by 4r1f (10) Alan Dean (234) Alexandru Savu (157) Amit (35) André (42) Andrei (154) Andy (26) Artem (52) Arvin (44) atul (508) Augusto (2) Bijou (56) Border (28) Brandon (72) Brent Ozar (36) Bruce Boughton (5) Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (309) Carsten (163) Chandoo (83) Chris (46) Christian (242) cirpo (5) Clint Ecker (378) Compuwizard123 (131) D. Hayes (24) D. Lambert (23) D. Shaw (15) Dan (2) danutz (101) David (30) David LEVY (33) DIAMOND-TIN (112) Dom Derrien (30) Doug (95) Drew (61) Dylan Bennett (8) eelco (4) Emil Kaiser (13) Eric (18) Eric (44) EricAppel (29) Fenng (256) finalcut (10) Florin (20) funkatron (81) George (23) Harper (164) Imran (38) Jack Shedd (50) Jannik (25) Jason (23) Jeff (54) Jeremy (377) jerobins (97) Jesper (24) Jim (55) Joel (15) Johan (4) John (14) jonezy (45) Jorriss (90) Joseph (47) jschultz (39) Kevin Branigan (51) Kevin Jump (10) Khan Tasinga (6) kidakaka (19) kiran (124) kmartino (26) Leo K (65) lishevita (26) LouCypher (384) lpalli (29) Luke (12) madMilo (38) Marcos Toledo (32) Mark (2) Martin Gordon (87) Matt (23) Mattia (22) mattw (5) Maxim (69) Michael Sallmen (33) Mike (144) Morton Fox (348) Mr. T (9) n2linux (9) Nathan (26) Nico B (30) Nicolas Roberge (21) nybble (69) Olivier Favre (Innovablog) (89) Patrick Altman (37) Pavan (19) phoenix (15) Pramod (386) psvensson (61) Richard (15) Rob Knight (5) Robert Fischer, Smokejumper Consulting (64) Roberto (67) rochoa (19) Ron (44) Roy (35) rveguilla (53) Samiq (64) Scott (39) Sebastian (33) Shaun (35) Shine (99) shivanand (34) Skrud (24) smuggyuk (10) Srinvard (251) Stephen Voorhees (15) Steve (6) Steve (36) talios (35) Ted (40) TiernanO (77) Tim (36) Tim (198) tim (333) Tim Goh (117) Timm (26) tjd1 (13) Todd (41) Todd McKinney (18) Tom (37) Tom Q (55) tOMPSON (28) tosh (37) TravisPUK (4) tsangal (154) Vashira (27) vevck (58) Vinay (49) Vipul (220) wayne a arthurton (10) Wesley (7) Wing (8) wwj (93) xrx (47) Yaakov (21) Yasin (10) Yuvi (243) zapnap (98)Explore read 10 notes
- mattw said: My entire life centers around a vague sense of duty to the ghosts of Boyce-Codd
- Nathan said: This is a great post. Definitely check out some of the "war stories" he links to. Good read.
- Tom said: it's crazy that normalization issues haven't been abstracted away by a clever engineer.
- Steve said: It's worth it for the last line. :)
- jonezy said: seems to be a more prevalent attitude these days in DB design
- Roberto said: Just took a Database class this year as a 2nd year undergrad. Normalization came up. Perforamce considerations in nomalzation came up twice, briefly. In any case, databases are hard enough without having to extensivly nomralize and then retrive via multiple joins.
- tosh said: interesting
- lishevita said: On my current project, and the last couple of projects I've worked on, I've had questions about how best to deal with exactly these issues. I'm not a database specialist, It's just something I do as part of the bigger picture of Web application development, but when I first learned to use databases in Web applications, I learned to ALWAYS NORMALIZE, so that is, by and large, how I design apps today. In really big apps, though, I've also wondered if this isn't more problematic than it's worth. It just doesn't scale well past a certain point. I like the fact that this article supports my gut intuition that it makes sense to hybridize the design of a database -- part normalized and part denormalized -- based on actual data usage.
- wayne a arthurton said: Interesting take on Normalization in databases.
- Dom Derrien said: Read this article with a wider mind: it's not just a matter of always normalizing databases, it's related of following rules because someone taught them! Be pragmatic, not purist ;)
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50 Remarkable Nature Wallpapers (136)
on Smashing Magazine (1661) permalinkWhen it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everywhere, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful eye-catching perspectives we would never have explored otherwise. We have collected hundreds of wallpapers already (see links below). In this post we would like to focus on wallpapers which emphasize the variety and beauty of nature. This post showcases 50 remarkable nature desktop wallpapers. The cover ...Shared by adam (4197) Adam (33) aim (18) AJ (1159) alexbig (63) alexcamillo (21) Alvin A. (85) Amy (46) André (112) Andrea (39) andrefaria (73) Andrew (2) Angela (21) ani625 (555) Anne Haynes (29) Avinash (360) baldahin (20) BethRitterGuth (105) blacktulip (99) Brian (3) BuildMaster (1) Carol (443) Chad (53) Chandan (711) chris (1916) cmm324 (19) Cogo (76) Constantine Nicolaou (12) D. (64) Dan (12) Dan (9) Danielle (64) Darky (53) David P (36) Dev (148) Dilip (1) dKing (24) dobata (1552) Doni (331) Dov Harrington (9) Dustin McLaughlin (123) Earl (2) Eddypedro (20) Ehab R (12) Emon (97) Essam (20) etng (295) everyone loves a wee sombrero (404) Faraz (12) FelipeC (45) gfurry (99) Giacomo Rizzo (49) gisc (161) Gluek (28) Heinz Grünwald (69) hiva (133) iar (10) ilyas (136) jamesjbigler (108) Jannik (25) Jase (78) Jason (72) Javed (404) Jeff (1617) Jeff Rivers (34) Jeremy (29) João Lucas (4) Jon (48) Jon Phillips (408) Jonas (22) Jonathan (591) Jonathan The Seagull (177) jonphipps (12) Josean (12) Ju (162) kevan (48) kevin (48) Kevin Grandia (395) KRZ (39) Lanzallamas (26) Lucia Freitas (105) maccman (20) Marcel (85) Mark Roberts (51) massimo (12) Mattia (22) MaXeR (141) mhmazidi (343) ming (90) Mone (25) Muhammad Saleem (2308) NaFigator (228) Nathan Reale (169) nferenc (4) nonozone (21) norti (124) peiman (64) pete (7) Piotr (3) Rachael (23) Rames (5) Ramkumar R. Aiyengar (33) Reymond (24) Rob Loach (7) Roger (214) Ruben (118) satts (6) Shankar Ganesh (320) skyler (33) Srinvard (251) Steve (47) StevieB (159) Sumesh (215) Tammy Lenski (14) Thomas Smith (243) Tim (6) Timm (26) Tom Steel (83) Tyler Wainright (14) ultraviolet (155) Vahid (494) vahidoo (11) Vipul (220) webtime (1027) Wei (267) William Becher (161) xray (44) xsolutions (22) Yeehaw (172) zoby (36) zsafwan (255) أبو سعد (63) 小雨 (8) 摩摩诘(Momojie) (36) 異塵行者 (66)
- Reymond said: Nice
- gfurry said: Need a new desktop background? Check these out. I like the sharks
- 摩摩诘(Momojie) said: 在GReader里每次展开SM的文章时我都会万分小心,图太多了~~
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10 Quick Tips for Building a Business Online | Copyblogger (13)
on Copyblogger (324) permalinkThe opportunities to build a business with online marketing are huge and growing every day. In fact, there’s so much opportunity out there some people become overwhelmed by all the possibilities. When you can do anything, often you end up doing nothing. People get so dazzled by dollar signs and freedom from bosses and geography that it’s easy to forget that what you do for money is often more important than how much money you ...Shared by Bill Stevens (97) Charles Lau (1) David Murray (26) Donna Fontenot (45) Eban_C (56) Jannik (25) Joseph Rodgers (90) Luis Jorge (11) Patty (75) Ryan O (58) Shana Albert (303) Shankar Ganesh (320) tamburix (30)Contribute comment
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The Soudtrack of a Car (1)
on The Adnostic (2) permalinkSoundtracks add drama, joy, suspense, and just pure emotion to otherwise ordinary scenes. Many Hollywood movies would be nothing without the manipulating brilliance of their film score. Take the opening sequence from Space Odyssey for example: If you were to mute the audio it wouldn't be much. It would actually be pretty boring and unmemorable, but the music makes you sit up and take notice. It is a preparation for what is to come. Another ...Shared by Jannik (25)Contribute comment
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Learning from "bad" UI (105)
on Hacker News (3208) permalinkWhen Gruber first linked the TripLog/1040 UI by Stevens Creek, I wasn’t kind either. Bright colors, controls seemingly placed at random. It was the opposite of what designers strive for in our circles. A mess. Soon the Flickr page was a schoolyard of insults. And then something interesting happened. TripLog’s designer Steve Patt posted a comment amidst the bile to share the rationale behind his design. The many who chose not to listen to him ...Shared by abrudtkuhl (85) Alan (98) andré.friedrichs (821) andreas (24) Andreas (15) Andy (74) Anthony (7) assbach (77) Benjamin Golub (129) Brett L. (38) Carri (53) cgerrish (10) chrisco (23) Christopher (110) Daniel Pietzsch (26) Darth Peeth (46) Dr. Ernie (116) e.p.c. (100) ehu4ever (502) EJ (68) Elliott P. (103) Eric Rice (161) Eugene (194) Federico Fasce (39) Fenng (256) Fred Schechter (368) Glenn Batuyong (401) Guillermo Esteves (50) hass (5) iAdramelk (73) Ian Betteridge (64) imabonehead (140) iomegadrive (60) J.R. (27) James (25) James Carlos (22) janequigley (68) Jannik (25) Jareth (4) Jeremy (377) Jeroen (37) Jim (55) jmeallen (20) Johannes (33) Jon (88) jonezy (45) jramos (19) JUSTIN (185) Justin (13) Karl-Anders (14) Kenneth (54) kevan (48) Kevin Gilbert (32) kleinman (27) Lu Tao (510) Ludwig (18) Lyle Johnson (27) Marco Gomes (30) Martin (10) Martin (34) Matt (23) Matthew Bischoff (64) Meghan A (7) Michael (142) Michael (141) Mike (28) Mike F (2080) Nick (322) Nick Dynice (17) Nick Nogueira (110) Otto R. Radke (30) Phil (17) Pramod (386) ramyon (130) Randem (98) rexy (133) Rick (10) RTPeat (127) ScorpFromHell (156) Sean (25) Sean (32) SengMing (168) Seth (20) Shane (45) Shyam (19) spLeaner (40) stevenvanwel (13) Stewtopia (14) teradome (7) Thomas Amberg (188) Timothy Greig (21) Tom (37) TravisPUK (4) Trey Piepmeier (28) Umesh (42) urbansheep (40) Vicky (5) vlvl (34) Vulpes (90) wAsh (37) WebFlint (11) Yuvi (243) zapnap (98) Вадим (4) 猫影 (124)Explore read four notes
- Kevin Gilbert said: Classy group, 37signals.
- Tom said: two things i would change about this UI -- 1) the "odometer-style" input for numbers takes up too much space. 2) why the cyan background?
- jonezy said: file this for future reference in press UI dev. some of these idea's might be applicable.
- Jon said: Ryan points out good things here, but I still strongly disagree with this design, and think that had Steve spent an extra 30 minutes he could have made a much more usable and attractive version...
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Comic for July 9, 2008 (32)
on Dilbert Daily Strip (492) permalinkShared by | Balu | (94) Aga (65) Borzo (46) chip (169) cnu (21) DJ Unagi (27) Eli Dourado (17) ephes (98) Erik (17) Ian (26) Jannik (25) Jason Sares (62) Jim (55) Jim English (6) johnk (21) Jonathan (84) jrsquared (8) juangigli (3) keith (101) Matt (24) mmhan (140) norti (124) Pickles (66) Radovan (9) Randy (53) rOckY (669) Roger (214) Sheila Thomson (108) tante (50) Tom (44) virtualcourtney (74) Zac (83)Contribute comment
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Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms (162)
on Smashing Magazine (1661) permalinkLast week we have presented first findings of our web forms survey. The main objective of the survey was to provide designers and developers with some intuition of how effective web forms are designed; we also presented some guidelines of how an effective and user-friendly web form can be achieved. We have focused on sign-up forms as we wanted to consider further crucial forms (e.g. checkout forms) separately. Afterwards we’ve gone through each and every ...Shared by Adam (496) aemkei (52) Akai (56) Akeem Williams (10) Alard (29) Alex France (1166) alexbig (63) Alisher (22) Amy (46) Andrew Eberlin (25) Andrew Whitehouse (75) Andy Wibbels (231) Anna (6) Anthony (7) Ari (203) Ben Shoemate (173) Bijou (56) Bill (34) Bjoern (6) Brian (35) brianwyrick (239) Bruce (53) cainanunes (30) Casey Kusiak (15) Chris (217) Colin Robertson (3) ct2000 (33) Daniel (3) Daniel Errante (15) David (34) David (69) David Blankenship (38) David V (62) Dawson Jones (10) Dean Mah (10) Derek Edmond (343) docbaily (87) Dominic Foster (1887) Don (40) Donnie Berkholz (89) Dru Kelly (80) dtybywl (144) Dudu P (70) elsterama (199) Eoin (38) Eran Lahav (7) Eric Danker (16) ericholter (64) etng (295) Felix Bredoteau (1883) Filip Salindrija (51) GeniusBoyWonder (72) gisc (161) Goatlady (69) Gregg (16) guy (2563) Harry Brignull (41) HejGustav (137) ilyas (136) imabonehead (140) James Young (27) Jannik (25) Jason (26) Jay (23) Jeff Pope (6) Jeff Pratt (62) Jeremy (377) Jesper (24) Jesse Thomas (134) John (50) John Munsch (10) Jon Ramvi (62) JonathanZ (28) Jose Marques (19) Joshua (28) Julian Montez (52) Justin (13) Kabren Levinson (92) Kebert Xela (27) kevan (48) kiirpi (24) klaste (9) Kristina (19) Leech (50) Leonardo (30) liamvictor (715) linkibol (14) lisamac (58) Lucid Guru (490) Lynn (50) lyonora (10) Manu-El (14) Marcel (85) martianboy (6) Melissa (36) melmyfinger (85) Michael (26) Michael Bartnett (221) Michael Johnson (156) Michael Mina (12) Michael Mior (283) Michael Nolan (44) Miguel Lopez (344) Mike F (2080) MrGuff (133) Muhammad Saleem (2308) Nahnu Bey (74)
