3rd
April
2007
“Apollo is a new cross-platform desktop runtime being developed by Adobe that allows web developers to use web technologies to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications and web applications to the desktop. Why would anyone want to do this? Well, we work with a lot of sales reps who are out in the field and don’t have a reliable internet connection. Building an application that can easily sync with internet content has been tricky to do in the past, but Apollo is promising an API for synchronizing data whenever you are actually online. This could be the actual build once, run anywhere desktop solution that Java never really delivered on.”
posted in Web development | Permalink |
3rd
April
2007
“I believe that myself and anyone else who can produce these results simply has a more effective strategy for learning new material. With my system of learning, you only have to hear or read something once to learn it. Best of all I believe it is a system that can be learned… One of the best ways to begin practicing holistic learning is to start drawing a diagram that associates the information you have learned. Better than taking notes during a lecture is drawing a picture for how what you are learning relates to anything else you have already learned. Once you get good at this you will be able to visualize the diagram before it is drawn, but start drawing to get practice.”
posted in Learning, Visual thinking | Permalink |
3rd
April
2007
You’ve already seen this, but I’ve been out sick so I’m posting it anyway. This is a really slick Flash interface that displays the scale of just about everything. From humans to plants, chromosomes to trees, mountains to dogs. Nice.
posted in Flash, Information design, Visual thinking | Permalink |
