Phusion Passenger | PeepCode Screencast This is the best $9 I’ve spent this month. Excellent instruction on how to setup Passenger on a local Mac machine as well as instruction on setting up Apache virtual hosts and SSL certs. These PeepCode guys are good!

Sat
Aug 16th

More nephew Ben

Nephew Ben gets baptized

The "Mojave Experiment" via flee

Tue
Jul 29th

The Girl Effect (via NorthTemple)

Fri
Jul 25th

Tadd's Music Profile at Last.fm This will likely reveal way too much information about my music tastes, but if it interests you…

Wed
Jul 23rd

Switched back to Firefox 3

I just missed my Del.icio.us integration too much, so I’m back to Firefox and not feeling too bad about it. I do wish it was as fast as Safari though. Note to self, speed isn’t always the most important thing, function matters too.

Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don't Have Testers It’s an old article, but a good reminder.

Wed
Jul 16th

Dogbert on MBAs I know I’ve felt this way about my MBA.

Sat
Jul 12th

Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs

If you can get past Jared Spool’s quirky laughing there’s some compelling insights here. I very much recommend it. From the presentation description, you’ll learn how:

Illusions performed by professional magicians follow the same design principles as your computer’s file system
Designers can create specific mental models to eliminate perceived complexity
Simple design tricks can make designs seem to be faster than they really are
Whimsicality, attention, and functionality are essential elements to creating delightful experiences

Wed
Jul 9th