This is my summary of “Designing with the Mind in Mind” by Jeff Johnson, a book about user interface design that explores the reasons why those principles work. Introduction How valuable are UI design guidelines depends on who applies them. They often describe goals, not actions, so they can’t be followed like a recipe. They [...]
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Emacs adventures
I have been using Emacs for over a year now. I actually didn’t learn a lot when I started using it (just the basics to get going and then some relatively common keyboard shortcuts), but lately I have been reading and learning much more about it. I’m so grateful by everything I’ve learned from different [...]
Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, Wikis and Javascript
After so much “slacking” (just posting book summaries) I’m trying to go back to regular blogging. Remember my summary of Pragmatic Thinking & Learning? There are many exercises and pieces of advice in that book that I have been trying to practice. One of the things I decided to go for was having a personal [...]
My short experience with GNOME 3
After not having blogged about anything but book summaries lately, I thought it was about time to write something else :-) EDIT: Added the last point, the most important one! I had been thinking of trying out GNOME 3 since it was released. For a number of reasons, I only managed to give it a try [...]
Book review: Javascript Web Applications
This is my review of “Javascript Web Applications” by Alex MacCaw, part of the O’Reilly Blogger Review Program (in a nutshell: you can choose an ebook from a given selection, and you get it for free if you make a review and post it in any consumer site). It’s a book about using Javascript to [...]
LeakFeed and <angular/>
A couple of week ago I discovered LeakFeed, an API to fetch cables from Wikileaks. I immediately thought it would be cool to play a bit with it and create some kind of application. After a couple of failed ideas that didn’t really take off, I decided to exploit my current enthusiasm for Javascript and [...]
Book summary: Prototyping (II)
This is the second half of my summary for the book “Prototyping” by Todd Zaki Warfel. See the first part on this blog. It will cover chapters 4-12, which talk about the guiding principles for prototyping, prototyping tools and how to test your prototype. Principles Most prototyping mistakes come from either (1) building too much [...]
Book summary: Prototyping (I)
This is the first half of my summary for the book “Prototyping” by Todd Zaki Warfel. See my review of the book in Goodreads (one-sentence summary of the review: “a tad disappointing”). It will cover the first three chapters, “The Value of Prototyping”, “The Prototyping Process” and “Five Types of Prototypes”. The second half will [...]
Humble Indie Bundle #3
I had seen the Humble Indie Bundle before, but it wasn’t until HIB #3 that I decided to actually buy it. I learned about it through the Electronic Frontier Foundation (who else!), and some of the games looked neat. Of course, all of them have a native version for Linux and there is no DRM [...]
My experience writing Opera extensions
Apart from a couple of widgets, I have written two Opera extensions. The first was Show Filtered Content, a proof of concept of how to use the Opera Link API, and OAuth in general, from Javascript. Now, due to a couple of coincidences (isn’t life all about that?), I decided to write Meme Smileys: a [...]
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