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June 2007

The Power of Visualizing Data

Nobody would listen to the speeches, including me. They were awful. They were full of facts and figures he had dug up about running the state. He would say, “Now friends, if you will bear patiently with me for a few minutes, I will give you the figures,” and he would clear his throat and fumble with a sheet of paper and backbones would sag lower in the seats and folks would start cleaning their fingernails with their pocket knives. Read this blog post

6/26/2007  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

Book Review: The Adversity Advantage

I stumbled upon this book by accident. It was sitting on a library shelf for new books, and when I saw one of the authors to be Erik Weihenmayer, I just couldn’t walk by. Read this blog post

6/24/2007  | Discuss this postNo comments yet  |  No TrackBacks

I See The Golden Section. It's Everywhere.

Geometry of Design is an interesting, quick read about some of the age-old design principles we see around us in nature, art, architecture, etc. The discussion is based on the Golden Section and application of it’s harmonious derivatives, such as root 2, 3, 4 and 5 rectangles. Read this blog post

6/17/2007  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

When It's Time to Dump a Bad Undertaking

One more variation of the game theory is the Dollar Auction. Wikipedia has a very good description of the game: Read this blog post

6/17/2007  | Discuss this post5 comments  |  No TrackBacks

All Eyes on Simplicity

Simplicity has become a revived buzzword as of lately. Ironically, it’s been advocated since before the days of personal computers. Simplicity got lost in the “enterprisiness” of the 90s, but has been given a second life.The latest issue of Technology Review is dedicated to design, which is impossible to cover without a discussion on simplicity. Read this blog post

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Is Natural Feel For Aesthetics a Must?

I sense some people feel doomed that design is not their realm because they are not “naturally gifted” with a feel for aesthetics. The legendary Johannes Itten put it this way in his seminal work The Art of Color: Read this blog post

6/15/2007  | Discuss this post1 comment  |  No TrackBacks

Download "ASP.NET AJAX Client Life-Cycle Events" Cheat Sheet

In Microsoft AJAX, the order of events on the client side always confused me. There were various objects involved in the client life cycle, and I didn’t understand which events fired when. I distilled whatever documentation I found into a “cheat sheet” to illustrate the flow of events. Read this blog post

6/1/2007  | Discuss this post17 comments  |  No TrackBacks