Archive for January, 2010

The iPad doesn’t have a camera.

But that’s ok, because your cell phone does. Your laptop does too. As does your desktop PC these days if you are buying retail. Here’s the shocker though, even your camera has a camera these days. They think of everything, don’t they?
The lack of camera on the iPad may be a sign of prescience on [...]

The discard pile

I think that in the grand spectrum of things, it is better for a designer, or even a particular kind of developer, to have things in his body of work that he’d rather not associate himself anymore. It shows people that you’ve grown and improved over time, and moreover, that you’ve done enough in your [...]

Urge to make satire site: rising

My first employer finally took down my good looking Flash promo site for their company. Probably more to do with the fact that they can’t keep anyone employed who can actually maintain it, than the fact that it was outdated.
I found the source files for the site and I need to do a little voodoo [...]

Attention: language recognition engines

Please understand when discovering the word “Twilight” in speech, double check for the word “hate” preceding it.
That is all.

Hunted

Apparently my iPhone project for my corporate employer has taken on the attention of Apple itself and my director was contacted by Apple to meet and discuss a “corporate development package”.
It sounds ominous.
It’s more ominous that we are a far cry from code-complete.