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Awesome UI Design Resource - Pattern Tap

Posted August 15, 2008

I don't usually just write about a web site without getting into bits of its UI design, but I came across Pattern Tap while cruising around for inspiration on FeedMyApp today and immediately fell in love with it. It's too great an idea not to share and I wish I had built it first.

Basically, the co…

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Firefox 3 Download Day Drama

Posted June 17, 2008

As today is officially Firefox 3 Download Day, I eagerly went to the Get Firefox page expecting to add my triumphant download to the mass of other fans, and was disappointed to see that the site was down.

I've been checking throughout the day, and it's been on and off... Once, about at about 12:15 p…

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The Web 3.0 Devolution

Posted May 30, 2008

Today on LinkedIn, I discovered a question titled "How do you define Web 3.0?" and my stomach turned. Are we really going there? Has mankind fallen so far as to need a consumer friendly buzz word for everything we do?

I'm guilty of mocking buzz word heavy web sites and blogs for using the words Web …

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Caffeine PHP Coming Soon

Posted May 6, 2008

While working with my good friend Gavin over recent months, I've heard him condemning certain aspects and limitations of popular php frameworks. This has invariably led us to pioneer a solution to these limitations, in the form of a lite weight, PHP5 framework we're calling Caffeine PHP, with some d…

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Easy Blogging With Viviti.com

Posted April 1, 2008

Today I launched the blog you're reading thanks to Viviti.com - an easy to use (beta) content management system that's made primarily for people with no design or programming experience. Fortunately, it allows designers to upload their own designs as well, so that's what I did.

Although the documenta…

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Shawn is a 27 year old freelance graphic and web application designer near Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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