So I had promised to write a bit more about my initial experience with Scala. Here it is. In my previous post I had explained why Scala in the first place, and I had mentioned that almost all of my knowledge comes from having read a bit of “Programming Scala“. Some of my highlights: It [...]
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The quest to learn a new programming language
Some time ago I realised I wasn’t all that excited about any programming language. All the languages I knew were, for some reason or another, annoying and I didn’t really feel like having any pet projects. That, combined with the idea that learning new stuff is good, pushed me to try and learn some new [...]
GTAC (two months late)
It’s been more than two months since the GTAC and I never wrote anything about it in this blog, so I thought I’d write some words so I could cross it off my to-do list. As you can imagine, the conference was great. It was my first big conference and my first time outside of [...]
A month of Colemak
I have been using Colemak for one month, so I thought it was a good moment to wrap up the experience so far and make some sort of summary. Things I have discovered: Keyboard stickers are useful: I thought that I’d just learn the keymap and never look at the keyboard, so I wouldn’t need [...]
Book Summary: Storytelling for UX (3/3)
And this is the last past of the summary of “Storytelling for UX” (first part, second part). In this last part I’ll cover the tips to create stories. At the end I’ll do a mini-review of the book and will add some extra comments. How to create a story Stories have four elements: audience, ingredients, [...]
Book Summary: Storytelling for UX (2/3)
This is the second (and longest) part of my summary of “Storytelling for UX” (see the first part). It will cover how to fit stories and storytelling into the UX design process. There shouldn’t be “a storyteller” in the team, as many as possible should be familiar with the technique. Prototypes based on stories allow [...]
Book Summary: Storytelling for UX (1/3)
This is book is the first book chosen for Oslo’s UX book club. It was a quite interesting book about using stories and storytelling techniques in different steps of the User Experience design process. The following is the first part of my (long) summary of the book. The summary is mostly intended to remind me [...]
Trying out Colemak (keyboard layout)
So on Sep 14th someone shared a link to this amazing game, Biolab. The game is not that amazing by itself, but its pretty impressive that its built with web standards (HTML5 and Javascript). No flash or any other plugins required. And if you’re impressed by that, the level editor showcased in the making-of video [...]
Facebook privacy scanner (ReclaimPrivacy)
Summary: there’s a simple tool that will tell you which Facebook sharing options are “too open” in your account. I’d like you to help me by trying it out and telling me what you think (if you had problems using it, if you would like extra/other information to be shown, if you found any bugs, [...]
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