There seems to be a [gap][1] in [Gap’s][2] thinking.
All the worse considering the boards of Apple and Gap share several directors. Even more so considering the design philosophies both companies share. Gap customers love iPods, you know.
Really… When are we going to start demanding that web agencies stop making moves that are _so last century_?
At […]
If you’re running Rails 1.0RC or 0.14.1+, drop the following code in a file entitled `svn.rake` in the `lib/tasks` directory of your rails application:
desc "Configure Subversion for Rails"
task :configure_for_svn do
system "svn remove log/*"
system "svn commit -m ‘removing all log files from subversion’"
system ’svn propset svn:ignore "*.log" log/’
system […]
I feel like I haven’t stopped since I got back from the mainland, but I finally had time to launch the new [icongarden.com][1] design… it’s __very__ simple at the moment, in keeping with the idea it presents, but I plan to flesh it out over the next few months, as time permits, with information about […]
I’m [at that age … ideas arrive in search of me][1], and I’ve long been dissatisfied with the apparent divide between corporate America’s idea of an employee (think “assets” and “liabilities”) and my own idea of myself — and my co-workers — as full-fledged human beings. At the same time, a number of trends […]
In the early days of the graphical Web, everybody was a generalist, mainly because the technology wasn’t moving so fast that keeping track of everything required full-time attention, but also because the standards for excellence were much lower. As the web matured, the market inevitably encouraged the rise of specialists - programmers, database developers, UI architects, graphic designers, etc.
But some of us refused to give up our ‘webmaster’ titles and kept learning, kept plugging along, incrementally gaining experience in a range of different disciplines.
It seems that Web 2.0 may also signal the Return of the Generalists.