February 12, 2006

Agile design

Emily Chang: “Think of agile design as user interface design strategy meets agile programming methodologies.  In addition to mental mapping, task flow analysis, and user testing, we’re seeing the importance of a new type of agile process.  In design, just as in development, ‘agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, [...]

February 12, 2006

InfoCards on non-Windows platforms

Shelly Powers: “Kim Cameron has InfoCards working with WordPress and PHP. This was in response to a challenge made to him some time back about implementing InfoCards in a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) environment. I’m not necessarily sanguine of the concept of InfoCards, but the effort that Kim has done deserves recognition and a well done.”
I’m interested [...]

February 12, 2006

Connecting your Mac to the Xbox 360

Gizmodo: “Nullriver has designed a program for OS X 10.3.9 or later that allows music and photo streaming to be done from iTunes and iPhoto. The progam, called Connect360, will index everything from your iTunes and iPhoto libraries and share it with your Xbox 360.”
This looks extremely useful, and the price is right too.

February 12, 2006

Google interview in TIME

I read the recent Google interview in TIME. It fit all of the Google stereotypes (Page/Brin as ADD-type kids, Schmidt as the “aw shucks” CEO pointing to the smart guys) but wasn’t very substantive. YMMV.