Did you know that today is World Philosophy Day? No, I had no clue, either.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), my staple news source, has today posted an opinion piece about teaching children to think critically, something I would very much like to see for my own children.
Laptop computers may be handy and entertaining gadgets but [...]

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Senator Conroy’s ISP filtering plans are certainly causing a stir. There has been hype, there have been reasoned responses, but overall, I think true debate has been lacking. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a story on the matter for a uni subject I’m doing (reproduced below), and it prompted me to think. So, [...]

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In days of stability, I had little desire to bother with conforming my mind to “econo-logic” (as my University of Sydney lecturer termed it), but now things are less certain, it is natural for me to seek a better understanding of our economic system - both how it operates and why it is in trouble. [...]

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Usability guru Jakob Nielsen yesterday published a report advocating the use of low-fi prototypes to improve quality in websites built using Agile methodologies.
The report, Agile Usability: Best Practices for User Experience on Agile Development Projects, is based on case studies from 12 companies that use Agile methodologies and emphasise usability, and is supplemented by a [...]

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I’m excited by various possibilities on the horizon. Reading up on AJAX. #
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from http://tinyu… Read more at http://tinyurl.com/588wq4 #
I’m excited by various possibilities on the horizon. Reading up on AJAX. #
reading a Philosopher’s Zone discussion on bailouts, capitalism and the
financial markets.
http://tinyurl.com/6y3d5n #
Thinking about “more light!” in art and [...]

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rueing the woeful drop of the Australian dollar #
Is pondering Ockham’s Razor as it pertains to development #
rewriting Prabh’s TQM assignment while longing to work on my sessions
handler class :). Also have a news article to write for uni. #
#haiku deep lake lying still paddles slice the cool surface droplet
sphere flies [...]

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is loving Pencil + Google Sites for website visual specs #
Is happy with the progress of the new app. #
coding a news genre site today #
Honestly, Turnbull comes across as such a bleep sometimes. Disingenuous,
he takes us for fools http://tinyurl.com/66u9mk #
enjoying Michael Peacock’s PHP Framework tute:
http://tinyurl.com/6e9l4o #
creating my first custom PHP framework. #
They’re really scraping [...]

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Leisa Reichelt has written a neat post about using wireframes with team members “to uncover good ideas, common themes, and a whole raft of information and assumptions that haven’t yet surfaced in the project but that are important to us getting the design and information architecture right.”.
It’s a good read, and an approach I’ll try [...]

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Experimenting with a new startup - citizen contributions to the news (not
quite citizen journalism!). #
@flugge Here’s my list of categorised Scrum resources:
http://tinyurl.com/5slluc in reply to flugge #
trying to focus on coding a little app. #
trying out Pencil, v. nice for visual web app specs!
http://tinyurl.com/5vmrgt #
@TurnbullMalcolm Hi MT: will you block laws to mandate ISP-level
filtering? Is [...]

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Peldi at Balsamiq has a great blog. His post on Jason Fried’s talk really echoes my sentiments. Particularly:
One thing that they do differently from me is to jump straight into HTML+CSS for their Mockups. I still think that’s too time-consuming compared to using Mockups to flesh out your UI ideas. I do agree that you [...]

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