How to innovate according to Steven Johnson... "Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies, frequent coffee houses and other liquid networks; follow ...Read More
3d Movies Suck, I want Holograms
Ok...I like gimmicks as much as the next guy, but i feel like there are some major issues completely overlooked by this Hollywood bandwagon... ...Read More
HTML5 WebSocket support
Dylan has posted a good round up of the state of WebSocket support over on CometDaily. As you can see, the browser support is limited, and the version of WebSocket supported comes into it too. The ...Read More
Providing food at work: Perk for the staff or perk for the business?
Life can be hard to stomach. We are in “tough economic times”. The papers are filled with stories of unemployment, mass job losses and graduates unable to find work. If the media are to be believed we are ...Read More
Resurrecting the Jigosaurus
Jigosaurus was a multiplayer Jigsaw puzzle that could be played with friends through any compliant web browser. It was originally designed as a small little test project but was sadly left dormant. ...Read More
HTML5, iOS and the open web
A couple of quick links I picked up on this week..Google has made updates to its mobile gmail, mentioned here - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/gmail-in-mobile-safari-now-even-more.html Mobile Gmail is a great example of a mobile web app that acts very much like ...Read More
Web Page vs Web App
When does a web page cease to be a page and become something that is more like an app? The answer is pretty subjective, and two people can argue (and have) about this for hours and still not agree. Superficially the ...Read More
What does software look like?
As software engineers we work with substance which can neither be seen, smelt, touched, heard nor tasted. One might argue that we "see" the code, but in reality, our source code is no more than the instructions that we give for ...Read More
UX Definition Myopic?
I am starting to get a little frustrated on the volumes of tweets and blogs I am reading about UX, mainly because my vision and what we are doing here at Caplin gets watered down through most people's myopic view of ...Read More
War stories from the Static Analysis Trenches
I have always had a soft spot for automated analysis tools, fundamentally believing that for a reasonable subset of problems, where the rules can be expressed relatively mechanically, that they should be able to effectively diagnose a reasonable number of issues ...Read More