Software over the rainbow

desearch and revelopment

Month: December, 2006

A teaser

Suggestive errors

Beans (the one i know) is a hip hop mc, formerly a member of the great Antipop Consortium. (The) Beans are a canadian post rock band, which I didn’t know before. They’re good if you’re into do make say think and bands like that. It seems like last.fm is not so sure about that difference, [...]

Zach Lieberman talk and performance at UPF

Zach Lieberman will be presenting (talking and performing) his work tomorrow at the University Pompeu Fabra. He will be talking, among other things, about openframeworks, his “open-source library to help other artists produce works through coding.” in c++, which I’m totally in love with. Details: – ink & c++ for dinner a performance and talk [...]

Paper, plastic, stone: client side materials

I’ve been thinking about differences that different technologies (as such, regardless of what we do with them) offer in user experience. They’re like different materials: DHTML = Paper: Transparent, accesible, malleable, fragile Flash = Plastic: Vectorial, fluid, “stretchable”, shiny… Java = Stone: Heavy, unchangeable (no right click), exclusive… Usually, the choice of the technology to [...]