Design competitions are rarely a good thing. Those of us that have been fortunate enough were burned long ago early in our careers submitting to design competitions. Some of us will be burned later on. Some of us, such as Architects, seem inexplicably stuck in a spec-work industry. But this one I’m going to let [...]
It’s Friday. Time to go through the week’s leftovers…
Macradobe
Since Macromedia’s days are now numbered, take a stroll down memory lane with a history of Macromedia products. Remember Drumbeat? Xres? Soundedit 16? Extreme 3D? Fontographer?
Open Source for Democracy
Wide Open: Open source methods and their future potential is a report from Demos, a “greenhouse for new [...]
(Yes, I’m cross-posting. ;o)
Open Source software has always been a basic building block of the web: the Linux operating system, Apache Web Server, PHP scripting language, MySQL database, an assortment of P2P networking applications, email clients, web browsers, etc. Sourceforge has nearly 100,000 open source projects registered–with at least a quarter of them being web-centric.
Yet [...]