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- November 5, 2004
Annoyed
November 5, 2004Read moreA couple days ago I started receiving SPAM via the email addresses registered with Macromedia. I use a separate service and email address for every commercial contact, so I can track how my personal information is being sold.
- November 4, 2004
Transparency in Web Development
November 4, 2004Read moreCornell University’s Web Communications Team kept a blog about their site development, which is an interesting exposition of “why decisions are made a certain way”. It’s an interesting read, for those of you who are interested in seeing how the production process goes from the PM’s perspective.
- November 4, 2004
Screen Typography
November 4, 2004Read moreBuddy Sean asked me about choosing fonts for software development. “What is a good legible font for software? Where do you find out more information about this? Is there a developer kit you can buy or download?”
- November 4, 2004
Money of the World, Regrettable Food
November 4, 2004Read moreI was browsing through lileks.com after visiting the Gallery of Regrettable Food, which preserves stomach-churning food photography of the 50s and 60s. There’s also a neat section on Money on the World…check out Brazil and Cuba! A country’s money tends to be filled with interesting iconography and symbolism too, so that’s well worth checking out from a graphic design perspective.
You can see a lot of their other projects as part of their Institute of Official Cheer. It’s a good waste of an hour.
- November 3, 2004
How to Write a Compiler
November 3, 2004Read moreBack in my high school days, I found that I liked knowing the hoary details of low level computer operations: assembly language, instruction decoding, firmware and register manipulation.
One regret I’ve had, though, is not ever taking a Compilers course. That is, how to write a compiler for a language like C or C++. Unlike some of the fruitier “Learn to code in Pascal, LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE” courses, writing a compiler is a marriage between expression of code in a high level language and implementation in nice spurts of machine code. While I have no great desire to write compilers for a living, I do wish I knew more about how they work. So I was bopping around the web today and came across Inger, an open-source compiler with an e-book. Cool. And also Open C++, an open-source C++ compiler project. The Internet rocks.
