22nd
March
2006
“A year ago I have started to improve my web-development skills and share the knowledge I had with the visitors of my blog. Most projects and article I’ve created or written are still popular in the Net — The Web-Developer’s Handbook has become one of the most popular web-sites… The funny thing is that as I was just realizing my ideas in the Web, I didn’t think about getting the page popular, tweaking its position in search engines or finding potential clients on the Web. The basic idea was helping people. First of all, helping me, but also sharing my work with people who might need it…”
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22nd
March
2006
“Embedded in Management Information Systems, sparklines efficiently add context and reduce the recency bias prevalent in data analysis and decision-making. Sparklines enrich data displays on mobile devices and are a prerequisite for effective mobile controlling concepts… In order to enable a wide public to benefit from sparklines, we offer an Add-in for Microsoft Office that creates sparklines. The sparklines are generated either as bitmaps or from specifically crafted TrueType Fonts (TTF), the Bissantz SparkFonts, which allows for continuous scaling and razor-sharp printouts.”
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22nd
March
2006
“In the Japanese language Nikkei newspaper yesterday I stumbled upon an interesting article featuring stories on people who have started small grassroots movements — however unintentional — by doing something in a unique way. One such person is Mr. Masayoshi Takahashi who has gotten a lot of people interested in his unique way of presenting, now labeled the ‘Takahashi Method.’ Takahashi uses only text in his slides. But not just any text — really big text. Huge text. Characters of impressive proportion which rarely number more than ten, usually fewer.”
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