Myles Carrick
I work with online learning systems: Moodle, Mahara, Kaltura and others and love working with Ruby, Rails, JS and other cool goodies.
Mail me at myles@mylescarrick.com
Follow my tweets at @mylescarrick
A practical guide to designing for the web [book]
Typography, colour, layout… all things about which I know precious little…
I’m about to head away on holidays, but am wishing I had this to take with me. It’ll have to wait until I return!
UPDATE: Think I’m gonna grab the PDF book
Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
I’m far from being a capable UI crafter… so found this great treatment of 3D, texture, etc invaluable in helping to broaden my thinking.
Thanks to http://twitter.com/dylanfm for the link!
Ordering dead tree version of @mrspeaker & @twalve’s jQuery: Novice to Ninja from BookDepository (nice work, fellas!) http://bit.ly/axATF8
Twitter's Ryan King on how they're starting to use Cassandra
Having been playing with MongoDB (http://mongodb.org), I thought it was interesting to see the reasons Ryan’s going with Cassandra(http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra). In summary (quote):
- No single points of failure
- Highly scalable writes (we have highly variable write traffic)
- A healthy and productive open source community
Over the weekend I was in a conversation with some fellas about Ruby and the syntactic sugar that makes it *so* fun to work with. This talk examines some of Ruby’s failings, and also highlights one of its greatest strengths - blocks!
“I use every new feature myself in a long test cycles — often weeks or months — before deciding whether to release it.”
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Marco Arment (http://www.marco.org/about)
Rack as Unix pipes?
At the Rails online conference “Exploring Rails 3” (http://en.oreilly.com/railswinter10) early this morning Australian time, one of the most useful things for me was a coverage of Rack - what it is, and how its thinking & approach now permeate much of Rails 3 (currently in beta).
Yehuda Katz (http://twitter.com/wycats) was manning the chat room, and posted this awesome compilation of his thoughts on Rack and the “pipeline pattern”.
Lachlan Hardy (http://twitter.com/lachlanhardy) posted about Eric Ries (http://www.startuplessonslearned.com)… so I went hunting, and turned up this great video - Eric covering topics related to startups - the need to release early and often, ‘pivot’, and generally be pragmatic. Good stuff.
RT @madlep: Hoping http://pleaserobme.com/ will kill 4 square spam. | Amen brother!
Handbrake - sweet video transcoding for *nix
I’ve stuffed around with a lot of open source video encoders / transcoders over the past little while… and Handbrake looks like the goods.
From its meta description:
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
Gonna try it out this afternoon!
