John Martin: Archive

Apr 21st

Apr 8th

Interface yawn...

Frankly I’m tired of the current state of interface design and Well Placed Pixels is like a check list for everything that I have grown to find cliché in GUI design. Since the release of OSX (and it’s got even worse since the release of the iPhone) if you want your apps to considered to have a “beautiful interface” they’ve got to look like they’ve been shitted...

Mar 25th

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Dear Google

Please remove target=”_blank” from your top navigation bar links. Thanks.

Mar 12th

VLC transcoding documentation →

I’m having a bit of mission trying to transcode three video streams into one and I have to say I am continually impressed with VLC and it’s documentation. Documentation FTW!

Dec 21st

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Jul 23rd

Tech blogs...

Are you a “journalist” for one of the popular web blogs out there? Here’s my patented 5 step process to writing great blog posts: 1. Think of stupid premise for a blog post (tip: new Google Reader feature causes cancer) 2. Trawl twitter for a couple of updates from random users that support stupid premise 3. Take screenshots of said twitter updates 4. Write a flimsy article...

Jul 21st

Jul 18th

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Jul 17th

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Jul 9th

“the Walkman doesn’t have “shuffle”

– from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8117619.stm

Jul 8th

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Jul 8th

Modernizr →

HTML5 and CSS3 browser detection engine. Nice.

Jul 8th

Jul 7th

“Paedogeddon”

– http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-jackson-bad-and-very-dangerous-1731258.html

Jul 6th

“I believe the iPhone will ultimately be judged a more important product than the...”

– Jeff Atwood… Apple fanboy. Wah? http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001280.html

Jul 6th

“…inability to reach a consensus on which codec should be implemented...”

– That’s the reason why audio and video specifications have been dropped from HTML 5. Are you kidding me right? http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html

Jul 6th