TRS-80

May 30, 2009

A long time ago, before the era of giant 5.25-inch floppy discs, computers recorded data to cassette tape. I got my first taste of coding on one of these computers: the Radio Shack TRS-80. My dad had one for calculating screen printing bids and for playing asteriods on an awesome double joystick setup. He had [...]

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WebVisions 2009 Rundown

May 28, 2009

I spent Thursday and Friday of last week attending sessions at the WebVisions conference over at the Oregon Convention Center. Here are some notes on what I saw and learned:
Cooking Up Gourmet User Experiences on a Fast Food Budget with Jared Spool
Jared Spool outlined three qualities a group should have to build great user experiences [...]

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Pimp My Web Page Slides

May 22, 2009

Here is the slideshow from my WebVisions presentation. The WebVisions organizers will be posting links to all the presenters’ slideshows on the event website later on, too.
Pimp My Web Page (PDF)
I’ll be posting more in-depth coverage my session topics here over the next couple weeks plus an improved Twitter JSON object parser!
Update 05/28: I just [...]

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