Today I listened to an interesting podcast “John Gruber & Merlin Mann’s Blogging Panel at SxSW” in which a famous line by Walt Disney was quoted: “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” This indeed makes a huge difference!
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April 28, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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March 15, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
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TED brings together people from the three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. If you are inspired by watching and listening to talks like this, check out the TED website.
November 9, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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Here are the thoughts taken from a lecture of Judy Estrin (CEO of JLABS, LLC) on innovation recorded in October 2008 at Stanford University: Core Values of Innovation: Curiosity and ability to frame open questions. Instead of ‘Do you need this feature?’ you could ask ‘What are you currently working on?’ or ‘What are your [...]
October 27, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
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Phil’s talk ‘Creative Econoomy’ recorded live April 4th 2008 at the Business Alliance Bootcamp for Growing Companies and Entrepreneurs contains 30 minutes of very interesting thoughts about innovation. Also check out Phil McKinney’s other Podcasts.
October 10, 2008 by marco · 1 Comment
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I would like to recommend an inspiring podcast I listened to this morning while driving to work. Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems offers a very encouraging view on open source, the stages in open source development, mindset and business modells. Goto episode 39 of FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss39
It’ a nice idea, to have a magnetic character for each developer on your project planning boards. Design your characters on the Soutpark-Studio-Website: http://www.sp-studio.de This is me: [2008-08-07] You can do it with the Simpsons too: http://www.simpsonsmovie.com
Phun is a very addictive physics simulator I came accross. Watch the videos on YouTube, install it on your Mac and try it yourself. Have Phun! http://www.phun.at http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki/Phun Videos on YouTube showing, what you can do: http://www.youtube.com/group/phun
When you do a lot of concentrated work (if you are privileged to be in an environment where this is possible), it is good to do something completely different at times. I discovered that when I switch my mindset to someting else more relaxing like leafing through impesssing images, some of the previously unanswered questions [...]
Here is a nice idea to present yourself as freelancer: http://www.vermeersch.ca (click ‘Explore’)
Watching state-of-the-art things of different areas inspires me. The Coolhunter is a very nice collection with categorized images of design stuff: http://www.thecoolhunter.net
“Read quality code” is one of the things that good developers should take the time to do regularly. Especially if you have to solve a well-defined problem, code search engines are very handy to get inspiration: http://www.krugle.org http://www.google.com/codesearch http://labs.oreilly.com/code
When you start googeling for something the first step is to be able to formulate an efficient query. You can use Google Suggest to refine your queries and get inspired about terms to use for best results.
I came accross a very interesting view of Richard Gabriel: http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html His points: “(…) because you can program well or poorly, and because most of it is creative (in that we don’t really know what we’re doing when we start out), my view is that we should train developers the way we train creative people [...]
I came accross a nice blog with lots of cool links to layout related things. Start at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/17/exploring-design-outstanding-start-pages/ and also visit links like ’50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs’ etc. in the category section. ——— To research for layouts, there is also a very good book series: The ‘Web Design Index’ comes out once a year. It [...]
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