23rd
March
2005
“Most photography books concentrate on the optical, mechanical, electronic, and chemical tools of photography. Other books are about various photographic subjects and genres. Photographer + Camera + Subject = Photograph. What about you? This book is about the most important factor in your photography: you.”
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23rd
March
2005
“Type the URI of a page … and submit it to see what colors it uses…”
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23rd
March
2005
“This is an example of linking to specific states within rich internet applications. Note that the application states are described with # anchors at the end of the URL just like specific locations in an HTML page. As the state in the application changes, the URL updates and can be bookmarked to return to that particular state. In this example, each photo represents one of five different application states in Flash…” (Thanks Andre!)
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23rd
March
2005
“Something I’d like to see: reporting on IA failures, and what was learned from the carnage. Failure stories are a literary genre in and of themselves; even the most dispassionate, technical ones are hard to put down. That’s what makes them such great learning tools.”
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23rd
March
2005
“Let’s be frank right off the bat: I don’t presume to be a typographer, or even anything close to an expert with a replete knowledge of typography and its history. Instead, I take a more practical approach to typeface selection, given the environment I’m generally in rarely requires that I need to complicate the process further.”
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