9 days ago
Richard Rutter : The Live Web - Terrific post by Josh Porter on how the web is moving from documents to applications.
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17 days ago
Greg Storey : Alaskan Way is in the way. - It's yucky.
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21 days ago
deusx : Redo The Web » Designing a CMS Architecture - "Start changing one single line of code in an application build on top of Drupal or ezPublish, to name only the two major ones, and you are in trouble. The moment you need something that is not natively supported, you enter the Dark Zone of CMS hell.
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2 month ago
Linkorama : An Interactive Map of Beijing - fascinating political architecture in the creation of new monuments
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3 month ago
Cameron Moll : Balsamiq Mockups - Balsamiq Mockups. Not sure how to describe this, but it's like sketching, really rapid prototyping, OmniGraffle with UI stencils, and Photoshop all in one. Worth a try, I suppose.
Richard Rutter : Balsamiq Mockups - Intriguing: sort of like doing pencil wireframes in Omnigraffle.
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nelson : Beijing Olympics photos - Phenomenal collection of architecture photographs
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Deconstructing Twitter - Today we get the latest full ongoing iterative back-filling explanation of Twitter and XMPP.
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3 month ago
Simon Willison : Queue everything and delight everyone - Queue everything and delight everyone. Les Orchard explains why I’ve been getting interested in queues recently: “One of the problems it seems most modern web apps face is the tendency to want to do everything all at once, and all in the same code t
Rod Begbie : Queue everything and delight everyone - Good thoughts from Les Orchard -- Your webapps don't have to do all your work the second a user clicks the button on a form. Queue up tasks and respond quickly, and everyone wins. #
Linkorama : Queue everything and delight everyone - The idea here is that the social structure can help you scale, while still delighting people.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Graph Paper - Graph paper for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. Useful for wireframing UIs, story boarding, interaction etc..
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4 month ago
gleuschk : in action: a skyscraper's amazing 728-ton stabilising ball | deputydog - zowie
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Diary of a Failed Startup - I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization".
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Please reshape the enterprise software market - And I drool over his graphics, but ask the same question as above. How does it make the life of folks in the warehouse, field, trading, hospital or plant floor better?
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Why multi-tenancy matters - I think a lot of people coming from outside the SaaS world believe that multi-tenancy is overrated. Intacct’s Aaron Harris has helped illuminate why so many of the most experienced SaaS providers believe multi-tenancy is fundamental to what they do.
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Linkorama : 10 Architectural Principles for Enterprise Social Software - Take 2 - All this needs now is a review of a few eyes and I think a re-order perhaps to reflect importance a bit better.
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4 month ago
Greg Storey : Construction photos of the China Central Television Tower. - "...it isn't just the leaning tower aspect that is intriguing, it's the balancing of the whole middle section in the middle of thin air that is also jaw dropping."
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes.com - awesome little things like this make it worth waking up in the morning. also makes me not completely hate the idea of remodeling
Greg Storey : "I was thinking that maybe there could be a game or a scavenger hunt embedded in the apartment — that was the beginning" - Noted for when I build a house. Stu, take notes please.
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5 month ago
philgyford : Corporation of London - Development & planning - Planning applications - Proposal to create a brand new flat at the bottom of one of the Barbican towers, in a "void space". See the PLANNING REPORT for some pics.
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5 month ago
deusx : Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture - "our existing system will be maintained while new parts are built, and old parts swapped out for new as they're completed. The alternative - scrapping everything for "the big rewrite" - is untenable, particularly given our small (but growin
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nelson : Redneck Mansion - Awesome looking collection of linked trailers
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6 month ago
plasticbag : Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures - I'm not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about it if you think for any period of time.
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6 month ago
Greg Storey : Open Architecture Network. - I hope this works as well as it looks.
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6 month ago
Greg Storey : Getting the Golden Gate Strait. - Wow, I'm gonna have to have this book.
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7 month ago
jcgregorio : The Accidental Environmentalists - "over that time 92 percent of the organization’s costs goes to employees, 6 percent go to maintenance and operation, and a mere 2 percent are represented by the initial construction investment." Many of my previous employers never got thi
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7 month ago
Linkorama : 15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing - If you peel back the label and its says “Grid” or “OGSA” underneath… its not a cloud.
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